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 [...]

A round of applause for Washington Post reporter Ezra Klein for pointing out last week the undeniable fact that meat production is a major contributor to global warming, and that consumers can make a difference by cutting out their meat consumption just one day a week. How big a difference in greenhouse gases reduction it [...]

A new study has found that high intakes of red or processed meat may increase the risk of mortality. The research, just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, examined more than a half-million middle-aged and elderly Americans and found those who consumed four ounces of red meat a day were more than 30 percent [...]

In yesterday’s Washington Post, Jennifer Huget reiterated some of the most common recommendations she hears from nutritionists-in an effort to make 2009 about healthy lifestyle changes, not necessarily the frustrating (and all-too-often unfulfilled) January resolutions to drop pounds or fit into a smaller dress size.
One of Huget’s recommendations hits close to home to us here [...]