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    Focusing less on the meat-free or health aspects of plant-based dishes, like this jackfruit burger — and more on their flavor, mouthfeel and provenance — could go a long way toward getting meat lovers to choose these options more often. That's accord
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    How To Get Meat Eaters To Eat More Plant-Based Foods? Make Their Mouths Water

    Feb 10, 2019
    Vegetable-based dishes may be better for the Earth but don't always sound seductive on menus. Marketers, researchers and food chains think they know how to get meat lovers to make the swap more often.
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    The Salt
    To help protect the planet and promote good health, people should eat less than 1 ounce of red meat a day and limit poultry and milk, too. That's according to a new report from some of the top names in nutrition science. People should instead consume mor
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    This Diet Is Better For the Planet. But Is It Better For You, Too?

    Jan 27, 2019
    Less than a half-ounce of red meat per day: That's how much a new report says we should eat to meet nutritional needs and help save the planet. Americans on average now eat four to six times as much.
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    The Salt
    Brahman cattle graze in a field in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia. Researchers can estimate the greenhouse gas emissions and land used to produce various foods in different parts of the world. They've used that data to calculate the environmental impac
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    Across The World, If You Eat For Your Health, You'll Help The Planet

    Dec 04, 2017
    Dozens of countries have government-recommended diets. That advice differs from country to country, but according to a new study, following it generally would help the environment.
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    The Salt
    A piglet gets a shot of antibiotic at a farm in Illinois. The World Health Organization is calling for strict limits on antibiotic use in animals raised for food. The guidelines could push many countries, including the U.S., to restrict drug use on farms
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    WHO To Farmers: Stop Giving Your Animals So Many Antibiotics

    Nov 07, 2017
    The World Health Organization is calling for strict limits on antibiotic use in animals raised for food. The guidelines could push many countries, including the U.S., to restrict drug use on farms.
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    The Salt
    The genetically modified low-fat piglets
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    CRISPR Bacon: Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs

    Oct 23, 2017
    Scientists have used CRISPR, a new gene-editing technique, to create pigs that can keep their bodies warmer, burning more fat to produce leaner meat.
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    The Salt
    Jon McConaughy, owner of Double Brook Farm, stands in the field with his flock of sheep.
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    This Farmer Wants To Give Animals A Better Life — And Death

    Jun 05, 2017
    Livestock farmer Jon McConaughy's animals live their whole lives on his farm - and die there, too, in his slaughterhouse. He tries to make the end as stress-free and respectful as he can, he says.
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    Chew On This For Earth Day: How Our Diets Impact The Planet

    Apr 22, 2017
    The foods we choose to put on our plates — or toss away – could have more of an ecological impact than many of us realize.
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    The Salt
    Cattle grow faster, and cause less damage to the environment, when they have better grass to eat.
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    To Save The Planet, Give Cows Better Pasture

    Feb 13, 2017
    What's the single most important thing that the world's farmers could do to reduce global warming? Give cattle — especially in the tropics — faster-growing, more nutritious pasture.
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    The Salt
    Aerial shots of a poultry farm near the Neuse River, in North Carolina, before and during flooding.
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    Manure Happens, Especially When Hog Farms Flood

    Nov 04, 2016
    When Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina last month, it flooded more than a dozen manure lagoons at hog farms. Environmentalists say it shows that these farms are too risky for the state.
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    The Salt
    The modern broiler, or meat chicken, grows incredibly fast. But some critics say the bird — and the flavor of its meat — may suffer as a result. Whole Foods wants all of its suppliers to shift to slower-growing chicken breeds, like this one, seen at
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    Why Whole Foods Wants A Slower-Growing Chicken

    Mar 30, 2016
    A modern broiler, or meat chicken, grows incredibly fast. The bird suffers as a result, and some critics say its flavor does too. Now Whole Foods wants its suppliers to shift to slower-growing breeds.
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    The Salt
    Gigi the cow is the queen of dairy production.
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    Gigi The Cow Broke The Milk Production Record. Is That Bad For Cows?

    Mar 18, 2016
    Cows are being bred to be larger, hungrier, and more productive. But this drive to raise ever-larger, hulking Holsteins has some prominent livestock advocates ringing alarm bells.
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    The Salt
    Surry County residents from left, Terry Marshall, Dr. Katherine Kellam, Donna Bryant, Mary Marshall and Jesse Hardy lend support to each other during a meeting at Bryant's home in the Shoals community. Mary Marshall says the odor and pollution from nearb
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    When A Chicken Farm Moves Next Door, Odor May Not Be The Only Problem

    Jan 24, 2016
    Large-scale poultry production is ramping up in North Carolina and getting closer to residential areas. Neighbors say the smells and pollution from these farms can make it hard to breathe.
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    The Salt
    Some of Vejraska's black Angus cows emerge from the smoke. Spotting the animals is hard in this scorched landscape. Vejraska says he would drive the cattle to safety, but the fire is so widespread that he has few places to put them. And it's too dangerou
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    In A Remote Part Of Washington, A Scramble To Save Cattle From Flames

    Aug 28, 2015
    More than 1,000 square miles of wildfires are burning in the state. In the isolated Okanogan Valley, where power and phone lines have burned, cattle ranchers are doing what they can to spare herds.
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    The Salt
    John Cummings (left) and Bart Perrieron are "cowboy cops" — they're special rangers with the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, which investigates agricultural crimes in Texas and Oklahoma. Cummings says cattle rustling is a crime with "l
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    Cattle Theft: An Old Crime On The Rise

    Aug 25, 2015
    Cattle rustling is a growing problem in Oklahoma, Texas and other beef-producing states. High beef prices and drug addiction are fueling the resurgence.
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    The Salt
    Young pigs stare out of a pen at a hog farm in North Dakota. In coming months, consumers will start to see a new label on some packages of pork: Produced "without the use of ractopamine."
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    A Muscle Drug For Pigs Comes Out Of The Shadows

    Aug 14, 2015
    The USDA is allowing a pork retailer, for the first time, to label products as raised with "no ractopamine." It may lead to pressure on farmers to stop using the muscle-promoting drug.
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    The Salt
    Surrogate mother No.4030 was the second cow who had to undergo a C-section birth on a recent day. Surrogate mothers can sometimes have bodies too small to properly handle the size of the embryo calf they birth.
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    America's Elite Cows Don't Give Birth — Their Surrogates Do

    May 29, 2015
    Implanting cows with the embryos of genetically superior heifers is big business these days. It's helping elite cattle breeders and beef and dairy producers spread U.S. cow genetics around the globe.
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    The Salt
    Each week the Centennial Livestock Auction in Fort Collins, Colo., sells sheep and goats to the highest bidder. Many of the animals end up in the meat departments of the Front Range's international and ethnic grocery stores.
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    Sheep Ranchers Count On American Muslims To Keep Lamb On Menu

    May 12, 2015

    Today, the average American eats about a half pound of lamb per year. Now lamb producers are setting their sights on Muslim consumers. But first they'll have to learn how to market to them.

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    The Salt
    Since 2009, country-of-origin labels on packages of beef, pork, chicken and other kinds of meat have been mandatory. They are supposed to list where a harvested animal was born, raised, and slaughtered.
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    Should Labels Say Meat Was Made In USA? Ranchers, Meatpackers Disagree

    Mar 06, 2015
    U.S. ranchers want consumers to know their meat came from cattle "raised in America." Meatpackers argue such labels add cost without much benefit. A trade dispute could soon make the labels disappear.
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    The Salt
    Cattle raised at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Neb. A <em>New York Times</em> investigation of animal suffering at the federal research center has prompted a USDA review.
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    Outrage Over Government's Animal Experiments Leads To USDA Review

    Feb 06, 2015

    Lawmakers also introduced a bill to strengthen laws protecting farm animals used in research. Both moves come out of a New York Times investigation of animal suffering at a federal research center.

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    The Salt
    A sow nurses her piglets in a farrowing crate in an Elite Pork Partnership hog confinement building in Carroll, Iowa, in 2009.
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    Chipotle's Pulled Pork Highlights Debate Over Sow Welfare

    Jan 19, 2015
    Wondering why your local Chipotle is no longer serving pork? It's because a big supplier was housing pigs in confined quarters. But there's debate about whether that's really worse for the animals.
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