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Where You Have Livestock, You Have Dead Stock: What HSUS Doesn’t Tell You.

February 8, 2012

I’m about to share with you an inconvenient truth: Only you can change the way livestock are reared on commercial farms in the United States. I said it when everyone was in an uproar about routine antibiotic use a few weeks ago and I’ll say it again. American consumers may like the [...]

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Local Food, USDA and Stereotypes

February 4, 2012
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Last summer, during a farm tour, one of our guests, a pre-teen boy, started talking about how great our breakfast must be. He waxed poetic about the bacon, eggs, sausage, and toast we must eat at the crack of dawn every morning. I’m not going to lie—before he was done I was beginning to [...]

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Only You Can Keep Animals Off Drugs

January 17, 2012
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I can’t count the number of op-eds, blog posts and general news articles I’ve read about the FDA’s recent move to ban extra-label uses of cephalosporins — a type of antibiotic – in meat production in the past two weeks, but Mark Bittman’s piece for the New York Times pretty succinctly sums up what [...]

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Gardening by the Numbers

January 12, 2012
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I’m talking gardening at BlogHer today and would love it if you’d join me.

I’ll never forget my first garden. It was a behemoth thing; seventy-five-hundred square feet of hard clay and encroaching weeds. I watched with much trepedation as my husband tilled the ground that spring. I was convinced it was going [...]

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Food Prices & Hunger: How Are You Coping?

January 4, 2012

I’m talking about rising food prices and hunger over at BlogHer today. I’d love it if you’d join me and share your thoughts!

I went grocery shopping the other day and came home with an empty wallet (despite growing much of our food ourselves, I might add) to read that, according to the United [...]

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Why We’re Not Vegan: PETA & Thanksgiving

January 4, 2011

First of all, PETA, that turkey image you’ve superimposed on that Jack Russell terrier is a Royal Palm. They’re ornamental. You can eat them, I suppose, and some Royal Palm breeders do eat their excess males but there is so little meat it’s really not worth the time to butcher them to begin with. The [...]

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Victory Gardens Now a Misdemeanor?

January 1, 2011

When it comes to landscaping it may seem what’s good enough for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue should be good enough for the working class neighborhoods of America, but Oak Park, a Detroit-area community in Michigan, disagrees.

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Slow Food’s $5 Challenge at BlogHer

January 1, 2011

According to a recent New York Times article, more Americans are growing gardens not necessarily because they enjoy toiling in the dirt, weeds and sun, but because they can no longer afford not to. As prices continue to rise—and package sizes shrink—at the grocery store, some, especially in rural areas, are turning to the ways [...]

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Detroit’s Urban Farms & Farmer’s Rights

January 1, 2011

Legislators in Michigan’s capital are poised to rock the state’s agriculture community with the introduction of a billthat would open up the state’s long-standing Right to Farm Act, a piece of legislature that has protected the state’s farms — those of all types and sizes from the bottom of the mitten to the tip of [...]

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On The GOP and School Lunch at BlogHer

January 1, 2011

In the midst of looming budget battles and unprecedented national debt, no measure is off-limits in Conservatives’ quest for cost-cutting. The GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee has urged the USDA to show restraint in the implementation of new guidelines for the National School Lunch Program. Read More at BlogHer…

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