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Animal Slaughtering and Processing

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Gas Station Sandwiches Can Kill You

    ​If you eat pre-made sandwiches from gas stations, you now have something to worry about besides your apparent lack of sophistication.

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Food Curated Goes to the (Artisanal) Slaughterhouse

    Meneer Zjeroen/flickrShe's no beefer... but you get the idea.​Last year, the Times ran a piece on the shortage of slaughterhouses in the northeast, which hampers our efforts to eat locally raised meat. CADE ( The Center for Agricultural Development and Entrepreneurship) to the rescue. This New ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Giggle-Fit Turns Balding Swiss Finance Minister Into Totally Adorable Funny Dude (Video)

    Merz​This clip of Switzerland's finance minister Hans-Rudolf Merz is funny for a number of reasons, including, to start, the juxtaposition of a totally boring parliamentary meeting and a giggle fit, ever the more funny because OH, MY GOD, WE'RE GIGGLING DURING A PARLIAMENTARY MEETING. You can ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    A New Mobile Abbatoir Takes Slaughter on the Road

    Makezine.com​Last summer, Dan Barber told Gourmet.com about the difficulty he had in finding slaughterhouses that would kill his animals humanely, and expressed some hope that "roving slaughterhouses" would go some way toward solving the problem. As Christine Mulkhe reports in The New York Tim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    More Adventures in Ridiculously High-Priced Ham: Domestic Culatello

    ​ At almost $60 per pound, culatello can't hold a candle to pata negra jamon, costwise, but it still seems expensive, right? Last week we marveled at the $169.00 per pound Bellota variety of the jamon Iberico called pata negra. Stepping down to the next most expensive ham I know of (neglectin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2009

    South Koreans Consider Classifying Dogs as Livestock

    The dog meat industry in South Korean has apparently long occupied a kind of gray area, in which dog is sold for human consumption, but is not subject to the same regulations as, say, the beef industry. This means not only that the quality of dog meat is not guaranteed (there has been a spate of rel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Smithfield Foods Getting Out of Hog Business; Zane Lamprey Trades Glass for Fork

    ​Norman E. Borlaug, a plant pathologist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in industrialized food production, which fought starvation worldwide, died Saturday in Dallas. Borlaug felt that environmentalists were hampering world food production by attacking the use of pesticides. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    From Swine to the Slammer

    Diner's Journal reports that Bev Eggleston, the purveyor of all-star swine to restaurants including Momofuku, Gramercy Tavern and Savoy, spent the night of July 30 in the Tombs. Eggleston, who has pioneered the humane treatment and slaughter of animals through his Virginia-based EcoFriendly Foods, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    Pig Business, The Trailer

    The latest documentary exposing the seedy underbelly of industrialized meat farming is Pig Business, a film by environmental activist Tracy Worcester about the true price of Big Pork (a.k.a. Smithfield Foods) flooding the market with cheap factory-produced pork. Apparently, the film was supposed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    The 'Bag Not Down with Times Piece on City Slaughterhouses

    Photo borrowed from The New York Times The Feedbag was not impressed with a Times story published this past weekend on New York's urban slaughterhouses, saying it romanticized the unclean, unethical establishments. Quoth the 'Bag: "These places are filthy, nightmarish hellholes, and the smell of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2008

    The Early Word -- Salumeria Rosi

    Photo borrowed from The New York Times The Feedbag was not impressed with a Times story published this past weekend on New York's urban slaughterhouses, saying it romanticized the unclean, unethical establishments. Quoth the 'Bag: "These places are filthy, nightmarish hellholes, and the smell of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2008

    Test Tube Meat?

    Photo borrowed from The New York Times The Feedbag was not impressed with a Times story published this past weekend on New York's urban slaughterhouses, saying it romanticized the unclean, unethical establishments. Quoth the 'Bag: "These places are filthy, nightmarish hellholes, and the smell of ... More >>

  • Film

    April 3, 2007

    'Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters'

    Photo borrowed from The New York Times The Feedbag was not impressed with a Times story published this past weekend on New York's urban slaughterhouses, saying it romanticized the unclean, unethical establishments. Quoth the 'Bag: "These places are filthy, nightmarish hellholes, and the smell of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2006

    Our Man Sietsema: "These obese wontons are superb"

    Photo borrowed from The New York Times The Feedbag was not impressed with a Times story published this past weekend on New York's urban slaughterhouses, saying it romanticized the unclean, unethical establishments. Quoth the 'Bag: "These places are filthy, nightmarish hellholes, and the smell of ... More >>

  • Film

    September 12, 2006

    'Flyboys'

    Photo borrowed from The New York Times The Feedbag was not impressed with a Times story published this past weekend on New York's urban slaughterhouses, saying it romanticized the unclean, unethical establishments. Quoth the 'Bag: "These places are filthy, nightmarish hellholes, and the smell of ... More >>

  • News

    February 1, 2005

    Asthma Goes Rural, Thanks to Amnesty for Polluters

    Photo borrowed from The New York Times The Feedbag was not impressed with a Times story published this past weekend on New York's urban slaughterhouses, saying it romanticized the unclean, unethical establishments. Quoth the 'Bag: "These places are filthy, nightmarish hellholes, and the smell of ... More >>

  • Music

    December 21, 2004

    Let me defrock you, oh liar of the orifice, but about yer blues . . .

    Photo borrowed from The New York Times The Feedbag was not impressed with a Times story published this past weekend on New York's urban slaughterhouses, saying it romanticized the unclean, unethical establishments. Quoth the 'Bag: "These places are filthy, nightmarish hellholes, and the smell of ... More >>

  • News

    December 30, 2003

    Slaughterhouse Jive

    Where's the Beef? Good Question.

  • News

    December 30, 2003

    Slaughterhouse Politics

    Ranchers Fought Rules That Might Have Prevented Mad Cow

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