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Media Miss Major Global Warming Contributor

What you can do: Cut back on beef and dairy; join a CSA, and fill your fridge with organic food grown close to home.

Last-Minute Rule Makes Polluting Easier for Factory Farms

What you can do: Instead of buying your meat from supermarkets, buy directly from small, local farmers who use sustainable practices.

Proposed Rule Would Put Organic Cows Out to Pasture

What you can do: Scope out local farms to see if their animals get lots of green pasture time.

Mass-Produced Chicken Poses Health, Environmental Risks

What you can do: Buy organic chickens from smaller, regional farmers instead of gigantic factory farms.

Tough-to-Kill Germs Found in Chicken and Hog Farms

What you can do: Shop for antibiotic-free meat, cook it thoroughly, and get rid of the other antibiotics in your medicine chest.

Study: Vegetarians About to Become Even More Smug

What you can do: You don’t have to give up meat entirely. Switch to eggs, poultry, and whole grains as sources of protein, and drop your beef consumption to once a week.

Wake-Up Call: Factory Farms Could Be Breeding Swine Flu

What you can do: Tell your elected officials you want agricultural programs to subsidize safer, smaller, more diversified farming operations.

Slideshow: 6 Things Food-Industry Execs Aren’t Telling You

What you can do: Make food decisions that are healthy for you and also send a message to food marketers.

Group Wants Antibiotics Out of Our Food

What you can do: Support a bill that requires responsible use of antibiotics by food producers; buy meat and dairy from local farmers who don’t overuse antimicrobial meds.

Supermarket Chickens Tainted with Bacteria

What you can do: Buy organically raised chickens from local farmers to help prevent industrial-scale food contamination