Checkoff’s Attempt to Educate TIME Magazine Editor Falls on Deaf Ears
Melissa Slagle, Cattlemen’s Beef Board
Beef Today
TIME magazine posted an article by reporter Bryan Walsh to its Web site: “The Real Cost of Cheap Food.” The article repeats a wide range of “factory farming” claims, including the common myths about modern beef production’s over-reliance on corn and antibiotics, the distorting effect of farm subsidies and poor farm animal living conditions.