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  1. The Drug Store in American Meat
    We're Eating What?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has banned a lot of U.S. meat since 1989.
  2. Eating your ethics: Halal meat
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Halal ritual slaughter has raised huge controversy in the UK press. But the far greater issue is farm animals' entire quality of life - as reflected in the Qu'ranic principle that meat must be 'tayyib' - good, wholesome and from well-treated, healthy animals. Is this something we can all agree on?
  3. Meat inspections slashed
    Connexions Digest News Brief, 1989

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    1989 article on greatly reduced inspections of meat products.


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