Responding to Congressman Steve Israel’s (D-NY) proposed ban on roxarsone - an arsenical growth-promoting additive to swine and poultry feed - John Starkey, President of the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, claimed use of the antimicrobial drug in poultry feed “…increases sustainability of production.”  Mr. Starkey’s use of the term “sustainability” requires clarification - is [...]

This is the second of a two post series highlighting the critical issue of Food Deserts and how communities can work together to address their needs, as part of the Center for a Livable Future’s focus on National Food Desert Awareness Month.
I was a guest on the “Midday with Dan Rodricks show” three weeks ago, where [...]

This is the first of a two post series highlighting the critical issue of Food Deserts and how communities can work together to address their needs, as part of the Center for a Livable Future’s focus on National Food Desert Awareness Month.

In just this last week, newspapers around the country have lamented the lack of [...]

Today’s announcement by U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) introducing legislation to ban the use of the arsenical compound roxarsone once again shines the spotlight on the all-too common practice of the unnecessary use of antimicrobial drugs in industrial animal production.
“American consumers simply shouldn’t have to ingest this arsenic compound when they sit at the kitchen [...]

Earlier this week we received word from Amsterdam that the Dutch may be followers of Center for a Livable Future’s Meatless Monday campaign. While the Dutch may be learning from the United States, maybe it’s time for the United States to also start taking pointers from somewhere else?
David Wallinga published a well-written op-ed two days [...]

Take a look at a new New York Times video, “The Danger of Livestock Waste,” produced by Brent McDonald. The many manure lagoons and field spraying in the state have led to the contamination of Idaho aquifers and private wells, causing high levels of nitrates, which have forced some families to buy bottled water. Another [...]

Check out today’s column, “Just Say No to Antibacterial Burgers,” by Washington Post Opinion Writer Ezra Klein. “This column, ” he says, “is based on a single and quite extraordinary statistic: Food animal production accounts for 70 percent — 70 percent! — of the antibiotics used in the United States.” Klein zeros in on the [...]

Whenever anyone asks why I became a vegetarian, I simply tell them that, “I read a book in 5th grade that I shouldn’t have.” In 5th grade we were told to pick an independent reading book. I always jumped to the non-fiction bookshelf and it was there that I found not only a children’s biography [...]

While working on a Baltimore-focused community gardening show for his GardenSMART PBS show, host Joe Lampl’l (aka Joe Gardener) stumbled upon the farmer’s market partnership between the Center for a Livable Future and Knox Presbyterian Church in East Baltimore. Joe spent some time talking about the project with Angela Smith, CLF’s coordinator for the Baltimore [...]

In a letter to president Obama the former executive director of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (PCIFAP), Robert Martin, suggested that any federal money used to bailout the ailing pork industry be tied to “retooling and improving the swine industry.”
The pork market’s slide is reportedly attributed to overproduction, high feed costs, misplaced [...]