Arizona Business-Gazette: Arizona’s Proposition 204 would make it illegal (beginning in 2013) to house veal calves or pregnant pigs in pens too small for them to lie down or turn around. Although Prop. 204 won’t even ban the pens, just make them slightly bigger, Big Ag is outraged. [Via Obsession with Food, where Derrick has a good take.]
Austin Statesman*: Article recapping Whole Foods Market’s new animal-compassionate standards is accompanied by a “humorous” (read: snide) op-ed by John Kelso asking, “How about sunblock protection, pig Pilates and acupuncture for pigs?” [DQ: When Dan Rather similarly teased Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, Mackey said, “Well Dan, you’re going to die, too — so should we not care about your quality of life?”]
Ann-Arbor News: A Michigan woman deeply regrets mentioning to state authorities that her family consumed raw milk — she thinks it led to shut down of sales from three family farms.
New York Times*: Hunting feral hogs in Texas — some of the meat goes to Europe, some to American restaurants and supermarkets as organic food.
Alameda Times-Star: Midway down this long look at the role played by third-party organic certifiers comes some interesting information about a number of conflicts of interest the big ones have.
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October 29th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
There is lots more to the item you feature from Ann-Arbor News about raw milk…at http://www.thecompletepatient.com. It’s a big story whose implications extend way beyond raw milk.