The costs of cheap meat
If you adjust for inflation and income, Americans have never spent less on food than they have in recent years. And yet many feel we've also never paid such a...
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Review: ‘Eating Animals’ by Jonathan Safran Foer
"Eating Animals" By Jonathan Safran Foer Little Brown, 352 pages $25.99 Americans spend less of their income on food than any other civilization in history. We demanded cheap food. And...
Food fights: Locavores, conventional food fans battle over benefits
Thomas Stern is an unabashed locavore, buying everything from beets and basil to lamb and legumes from nearby producers. "Things like salt and oils are a little harder to source,"...
City kids get lesson in bacon, bloodshed
My 7-year-old loves bacon. She loves it almost as much she loves pigs who are still alive. And so our recent farm visit to witness a slaughter was not easy....
Bacon, bloodshed and tears
My 7-year-old loves bacon. She loves it almost as much she loves pigs who are still alive. And so our recent farm visit to witness a slaughter was not easy....
Bacon, bloodshed and tears
My 7-year-old loves bacon. She loves it almost as much she loves pigs who are still alive. And so our recent farm visit to witness a slaughter was not easy....
City kids get lesson in bacon, bloodshed
My 7-year-old loves bacon. She loves it almost as much she loves pigs who are still alive. And so our recent farm visit to witness a slaughter was not easy....
City kids get lesson in bacon, bloodshed
My 7-year-old loves bacon. She loves it almost as much she loves pigs who are still alive. And so our recent farm visit to witness a slaughter was not easy....
CPS unveils push for healthier school meals
During the last school year, most Chicago public schools did not offer recess, regular nutrition classes or more than 40 minutes of physical education a week. Most also served few...
Proposed slaughterhouse stirs controversy in Quad Cities
A giant slaughterhouse in the Illinois river town of East Moline is creating a big stink — and it hasn't even been built yet. Supporters of the proposed facility, which...