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Butterball Goes ‘Humane’ for Thanksgiving. Really?

by DomenicWolinski Posted on September 27, 2014

Mother Jones

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It’s becoming a Thanksgiving tradition as hoary as NFL football or the bloviations of your drunken uncle: days before the national feast, an animal-welfare group releases an undercover video documenting vile conditions within industrial-scale turkey facilities (see 2013, 2012, 2008).

This year, the largest turkey producer of all, Butterball—which churns out a billion pounds of turkey meat annually, a fifth of US production—has made a bold move to get ahead of these appetite-snuffing PR debacles. By fall 2014, presumably in time for Thanksgiving, all of its products will bear the American Humane Certified label, the company announced Tuesday.

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Film Review: "Burt’s Buzz"

by LorriKelso Posted on April 17, 2014

Mother Jones

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Burt’s Buzz

EVERYDAY PICTURES/FILMBUFF

Jody Shapiro’s documentary profiles Burt Shavitz, the thick-bearded, staunchly frugal, middle-aged Maine beekeeper who cofounded Burt’s Bees, following his rise from hip 1960s photographer to the unlikely brand ambassador for a multimillion-dollar skin and body care empire. As a portrait of the compelling curmudgeon, Burt’s Buzz isn’t quite as penetrating as one might hope for. But it’s an oddly charming peek into the world of corporate celebrity through the lens of a guy who apparently wants nothing to do with it. “No one has ever accused me of being ambitious,” Shavitz says. And, of his intrusive fans: “I’d like to point the shotgun at them and tell them to be good or be gone.”

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Quick Reads: "The Bosnia List" by Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro

by ChristeAALZ Posted on March 18, 2014

Mother Jones

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The Bosnia List

By Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro

PENGUIN BOOKS

An estimated 100,000 people died during the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the early 1990s, but few Americans grasp the insanity of the conflict. Kenan Trebincevic, a Bosnian Muslim, was 11 when the fighting broke out. He describes how lifelong friends turned on his family, how his brother and father were thrown into detainment camps, and how they eventually fled under nightmarish conditions. He also takes us on a trip home to complete his titular to-do list as he confronts the betrayers and attempts to make sense of the nonsensical.

This review originally appeared in our January/February 2014 issue of Mother Jones.

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