Digest - News: Farm Bill deals, Utah milk labeling, dairy-cow Crohn’s connection
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Back to the future: Maryland’s Springfield Farm is new old-school
The family of Springfield Farm, whose ancestors first settled the land in the 1600s, wowed me with the contemporary food network they’ve helped build.
Downer and out: Will this be the cow-tipping point for the U.S. beef industry?
The Humane Society has managed to get graphic footage of workers at a California slaughterhouse using forklifts, high-pressure water sprays, wooden sticks, and electric shocks to get sick cattle up on their feet so they can pass USDA inspection and be processed into the meat supply. Filmed by an undercover worker, the footage is horrifying for anyone who cares a smidgeon about animal welfare.
Eating local in Tucson for the holidays
I am fortunate to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where year-round we can eat foods produced within 100 miles of our homes, feast on a diverse, abundant range of organic fruits and vegetables and ethically-raised animals, and are not too surprised to pass Alice Waters while doing our weekly farmers market shopping.
…Being a close community, they passed me on to their neighbors at Visser Family Farms, where I talked to Kathy Visser and was able to order two legs of lamb for our holiday feast, along with a box of organic Pink Lady apples from their neighbor’s farm.
Digest - Clones as Food special edition
This is a special edition of the Digest devoted to reactions to the Food and Drug Administration’s determination that clones and their milk are safe for consumption.
Rick Weiss reports on the USDA’s request for a "voluntary moratorium" on selling clones to allow consumers to adjust to the idea (i.e., let them forget about this week’s […]
Digest - Commentary: Of battery hens and battered prisoners in Britain
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Features: Big local, organic Apple; Temple Grandin on the ‘guest test,’ proposed new nutrition label
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Features: Why NAIS is a bad idea, BBC goes nuts for sustainable, Obama feints
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - News: Farm Bill moving again, pork brain illness, WIC gets healthier
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Hacking meat: Cloning animals for art, profit, and food
There is no pressing need for cloned meat and dairy; its approval will benefit only a few, while putting the entire population at risk.
Digest - Features: A game of chicken, school snacks showdown, Romanian rituals
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Baumans Cedar Valley Farms: It takes a family to produce pastured eggs
John and Yvonne Bauman and their six children raise pastured chickens for eggs and meat plus other livestock on a small farm in Garnet, Kansas.
Missoula, MT is for the birds — and against them, too
Meloukhia (along with my BoingBoing-reading husband) alerts us to a fantastic multimedia story at New West about how a proposal to legalize backyard chickens in Missoula, Montana, is dividing neighbors. It’s the battle of the Locavores/Ethicureans vs. Prissy NIMBYists:
In case you’re not familiar with it, New West is a damn fine online journalism site dedicated […]
Digest - Features: Farmers, dairymen protest govt crackdowns; rare farm-animal breeds; superbugs coming
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Features: Eat local NOW, sugar power, chef-farmer matchmaking in Wisconsin
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
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