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Science

The Fake-Meat Revolution Has Stalled

Consumer trends suggest a meatless near future is increasingly unlikely.

Baylen Linnekin | 3.5.2022 7:55 AM

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Food Policy

More Non-Meat Choices Are Better Than Meat Taxes or Bans

More choice can decrease meat consumption without coercion of regressive taxation.

Baylen Linnekin | 2.5.2022 8:30 AM

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Joe Biden

Biden's Plan To Address Meat-Price Inflation Ignores That Federal Intervention Caused the Problem

The president can't fix a problem he doesn't understand.

Baylen Linnekin | 1.8.2022 8:30 AM

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Economics

Biden's Stimulus Bill Subsidized Meat Producers. Now, the White House Blames 'Corporate Greed' for High Meat Prices.

Is America's meat processing industry making huge profits by "jacking up prices" during a pandemic, or does it need government assistance? Both, according to the Biden administration.

Eric Boehm | 12.14.2021 5:50 PM

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Lobbying

It's Time To Kill the Mandatory Beef Tax That Underwrites "Beef, It's What's for Dinner"

The beef checkoff problem raises prices without benefiting ranchers

Baylen Linnekin | 10.9.2021 8:30 AM

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Animal Rights

South Korea Considers Banning Dog Meat

Talk of a ban follows declining popularity of dog as a restaurant dish.

Baylen Linnekin | 10.2.2021 8:30 AM

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Animal Rights

Brickbat: Making Bacon

Charles Oliver | 8.5.2021 4:00 AM

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Canada

Canadian Steak Tartare Ban Leaves Chefs Feeling Raw

Warning people about the dangers of raw meat doesn't require prohibiting the practice.

Baylen Linnekin | 7.17.2021 8:30 AM

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Biotechnology

Manufactured Meats Coming to a Grocery Store Near You Next Year?

The process uses 99 percent less land and 96 percent less freshwater than traditional meat production.

Ronald Bailey | 6.28.2021 5:00 PM

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Deregulation

PRIME Cuts: Bill Would Slaughter Federal Regs on Small Meat Processors

COVID-19 has exposed the problems of a centralized food supply and built momentum for sweeping deregulation of the meat industry.

Ella Lubell | 6.18.2021 1:52 PM

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Animal Rights

Predictably, Wild Horses Are Still Suffering Due to Federal Slaughter Ban

Turns out that basing animal rights policy on the strong feelings of animal rights activists is not working out so well for the animals themselves.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.22.2021 8:30 AM

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Joe Biden

No, Biden Isn't Coming for Your Burgers

Plus: Donor disclosure fight hits Supreme Court, school choice momentum, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.26.2021 9:30 AM

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Biotechnology

Cultivated Meat Projected To Be Cheaper Than Conventional Beef by 2030

And produced with a much lower environmental footprint

Ronald Bailey | 3.11.2021 3:10 PM

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Biotechnology

You Will Soon Be Able To Taste a Lab-Grown Ribeye Steak

Cell-based meat cultivation is on its way.

Ronald Bailey | 2.10.2021 1:00 PM

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Animal Rights

Brickbat: The Killing Floor

Charles Oliver | 12.28.2020 4:00 AM

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Legislation

Meat Bills Are on the Menu in Congress

America's meat supply has been hammered by COVID-19 outbreaks at many of the nation's largest meat processing plants, but Congress can solve this by reducing onerous regulations.

Baylen Linnekin | 10.29.2020 6:00 AM

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Agriculture

Congress Considers Dueling Meat Bills To Meet Demand and Foster Food Resiliency

Three bills are on the table, but only one of them promises to unshackle small and independent ranchers.

Baylen Linnekin | 8.1.2020 8:05 AM

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Farming

House Judiciary Committee Members Ask USDA To Empower Small Ranchers and Meat Processors

Anti-competitive regulations have made Americans far too reliant on mega meat processors. It's time to level the playing field.

Baylen Linnekin | 6.20.2020 8:30 AM

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Agriculture

Federal Red Tape Is Keeping Local Meat Processors From Helping Fix Our Supply Problem

A renewed push to pass the PRIME Act picks up steam as COVID-19 leaves us all asking “Where’s the beef?”

Scott Shackford | 5.6.2020 12:05 PM

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Usda

What Is Government's Proper Role in Reopening the Food Economy?

When it comes to the food economy, government should remember that workers and consumers call the shots.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.2.2020 8:30 AM

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Public Health

The Executive Order on Meat Processing Doesn't Compel Companies With Sick Workers to Stay Open

Plus: Justin Amash seeking L.P. nomination, pandemic hasn't halted FDA war on vaping, and more

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.29.2020 9:30 AM

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Business and Industry

COVID-19 Is Coming for Your Burgers

Plus: sensitive cellphone data swept up in coronavirus containment efforts, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.17.2020 9:30 AM

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Capitalism

Impossible Foods: Capitalism Is the Most Powerful Lever To Fight Climate Change

Impossible Foods says that animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change. Instead of trying to pass laws to ban meat, it's providing tasty, plant-based alternatives.

John Osterhoudt and Justin Monticello | 3.19.2020 1:45 PM

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Technology

Can Vegetarianism Stop Climate Change?

Eating meat doesn't have as big of an impact on the environment as you've been told.

Ronald Bailey | 10.7.2019 6:00 AM

I prefer to be before meat myself, but whatever floats your boat.

Censorship

Mississippi Retreats on Stupid Attempts to Censor 'Veggie Burger' Labels

Nobody is being "confused" by vegetarian meat substitutes.

Scott Shackford | 9.6.2019 1:10 PM

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Climate Change

Why Giving Up Meat Won't Have Much of an Effect on Climate Change

Going vegetarian would reduce a person's greenhouse gas emissions by around 2 percent

Ronald Bailey | 7.29.2019 4:45 PM

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Biotechnology

Meatless Meat Is Better Than Ever

Zach Weissmueller | 7.4.2019 6:00 AM

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Fat

Vegetarians vs. Omnivores: A Soho Forum Debate

Listen to journalist Nina Teicholz face off against David L. Katz, MD, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, at an event in New York City.

Todd Krainin | 5.31.2019 2:10 PM

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Organic Food

Are Vegetarians Healthier than Omnivores? A Soho Forum Debate

Watch journalist Nina Teicholz face off against David L. Katz, MD, the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, at an event in New York City.

Todd Krainin | 5.29.2019 2:29 PM

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HomePage

Cultured Meat Turkey to Your Table?

A regulatory pact between FDA and USDA may help speed up getting lab-grown meats to your local supermarket.

Ronald Bailey | 11.22.2018 10:00 AM

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Hit & Run

Missouri Might Imprison You for False Meat Advertising

A state law says you can't call it meat unless it's actually beef, pork, or poultry. Critics say the bill violates the First Amendment.

Joe Setyon | 8.28.2018 1:55 PM

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Hit & Run

Impossible Burger Maker Denounces Friends of the Earth Activists As 'Anti-Science Fundamentalists'

Fear mongering over ingredients derived from genetically modified yeast

Ronald Bailey | 6.28.2018 5:30 PM

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New Cancer Report Tries To Scare You Out of Eating Sausage and Bacon

Nevertheless, U.S. cancer rates are stable for women and declining for men.

Ronald Bailey | 5.25.2018 12:20 PM

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Vegetarians and Meat Eaters Are Trying to Stifle Interstate Commerce

Federal legislation may be the only solution to overreaching state laws.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.12.2018 8:30 AM

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HomePage

Lab-Grown Meat Is Coming to Your Supermarket. Ranchers Are Fighting Back.

The U.S. Cattlemen's Association petitioned the USDA to declare that "meat" and "beef" exclude products not "slaughtered in the traditional manner."

Zach Weissmueller | 4.26.2018 1:05 PM

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Hit & Run

The U.S. Cattlemen's Association Has a Beef with Lab-Grown Meat

"Meat is meat, not a science project."

Kayla Stetzel | 3.2.2018 2:15 PM

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Hit & Run

Finally Fake Meat that Tastes Deliciously Like the Real Thing

Tasty Impossible Burger uses 95 percent less land, uses 74 percent less water, and emits 87 percent less greenhouse gas.

Ronald Bailey | 11.17.2017 11:00 AM

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HomePage

Maine Food Sovereignty Bends but Doesn't Break After USDA Threats

Law amended to make sure meat processors comply with federal regulations.

Baylen Linnekin | 10.28.2017 8:00 AM

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PRIME Act Would Help Put the 'Local' Back in Local Meat Production

States could set their own rules for meat that's processed and sold within their own borders.

Baylen Linnekin | 6.17.2017 8:00 AM

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Hit & Run

Less Cropland and More Meat Eating in U.S.

New study: The Shrinking Footprint of American Meat

Ronald Bailey | 3.2.2017 12:35 PM

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Politics

Food Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election

Farm subsides, GMO responses, and regulatory overreach should prompt some discussion.

Baylen Linnekin | 5.28.2016 6:00 AM

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Hit & Run

Your Bacon Risk of Cancer, From Wired

Meanwhile PETA offers you a free vegan starter kit and a vegan mentor

Ronald Bailey | 10.27.2015 12:03 PM

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Hit & Run

Meat Eaters Beware: Carnivory Declared Cancerous

Bacon, ham, and sausage are especially hazardous (and tasty).

Ronald Bailey | 10.26.2015 12:40 PM

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Hit & Run

Ronald Bailey Explains How Real Factories Will Replace Factory Farms

Room for buffalo to roam and antelope to play.

Reason Staff | 3.20.2015 1:30 PM

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Economics

The End of Farming

Real factories will replace factory farms

Ronald Bailey | 3.20.2015 10:00 AM

Science/Tech

The 'War on Meat' Will Make the 'War on Coal' Look Tame

Ronald Bailey | 7.11.2014 11:16 AM

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