I Received A Christmas Blessing…I Am Passing It On to You…
Now that we have baked our cookies and trimmed our trees,now that we have wrapped our gifts and planned our dinners,now that we have hung stockings, sent greetings and set
Continue readingNow that we have baked our cookies and trimmed our trees,now that we have wrapped our gifts and planned our dinners,now that we have hung stockings, sent greetings and set
Continue readingGoing through my email this morning turned up the latest from farm policy. White House has laid out a graphic there that speaks loads about the disconnect between reality and
Continue readingReading Mark Bittman’s blog this morning I saw this lead-in to a link I had to follow: Here’s the thing. A lot of stuff isn’t directly about food, but TB
Continue readingRALEIGH, N.C. – For the past three years, American consumers have been on a shopping diet. They cut nonessentials from their shopping lists. They’ve made do. They’ve thought twice before
Continue readingAnother reason to change our methods… A ground beef recall for more than 545,699 pounds of meat has been expanded to states from North Carolina to Maine on fears of
Continue readingTo a rancher like me, who raises cattle, goats and turkeys the traditional way (on grass), the studies show only that the prevailing methods of producing meat — that is, crowding animals together in factory farms, storing their waste in giant lagoons and cutting down forests to grow crops to feed them — cause substantial greenhouse gases. It could be, in fact, that a conscientious meat eater may have a more environmentally friendly diet than your average vegetarian.
Continue readingEating a hamburger should not be a death-defying experience. Too often it is. via Editorial – Toxic Hamburgers – NYTimes.com. This is where Food Policy and Health Policy come together.
Continue readingI grew up with a strong support for the power of technology…But the abuses perpetrated in the name of technological advancement of agriculture in the past few decades have left
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