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Urban Chicken Park(ing) Day in SF: Clucking awesome
Slide show of chicken photos from yesterday — check out the pics of other park(ing) spaces posted to Flickr: A big thanks to the friends who
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Digest – Features & Blogsnacks: Cornucopia, “box turners,” and bye-bye to pigs in the ‘hood
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Horn o' plenty (of complaints): The family-farm advocacy group Cornucopia Institute, which has filed seven complaints with the USDA since 2005 —against Wal-Mart and some of the nation's largest organic milk producers — is on a genuine crusade to keep organic standards pure. ( Comments Off • Read more »
Digest – Research: Recent Congressional Research Service reports
This is the debut of a sporadic digest of somewhat more weighty documents than typical digest items. The "Research" digest will include scientific papers, policy reports, and similar academic items. Today's edition is a collection of Congressional Research Service reports. If you have never
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Not so NAIS: Animal-tracking program is solution to wrong problem
Thanks to Marc R. for calling my attention to the Government Accountability Office's recent report on the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS, which first saw the light of corner offices at the USDA
Vermont Diary – Part I
I just came back from 2 amazing days in Northern Vermont. You see, I was hired to be a chauffeur to an evil capitalist management consultant who was going to a small Vermont town - with or without me - to convince a nice small-town Vermont construction company owner to diversify and morph into a greedy
Digest – Features: transgenic animal rules, shrimp seeking sustainability
DNA deliberations: Although transgenic corn, soy and cotton cover the nation, rules governing transgenic animals have yet to be developed. The FDA has not committed to a date for a set of rules, but seems to be narrowing its focus. The uncertainty is a problem for 'breeders' of transgenic animals, like
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Digest – News and Commentary: animal welfare, recalls, CAFO map
Although the House passed its version of the Food and Farm Bill on Friday, this news digest will be Farm Bill-free news digest (to which many will breathe a sigh of relief). We'll have a special Food and Farm Bill digest in the next few days that will be full of wonky goodness. Welfare goes widespread:
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Digest: Superbug plaguing European farm animals, sturgeon threatened, Farm Bill solution
We have almost 200 responses on our 15-minute Digest survey — if you haven't taken it already, help put us over the top of that nice round number. NEWS And we thought Europe was safer: A new strain of antibiotics-resistant
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Digest: Bee investigation continues, subsidy recipients bared, track your fruit
NEWS Death, where is thy sting: This excellent update on the search for the cause of colony collapse disorder in bees says that neonicotinoids have probably been ruled out, cell phone signals are laughed at, and most signs are pointing to a biological pathogen or parasite. (Los
Digest: Pig slop, China trends, Planck’s constant crusade
NEWS File under "WTF?!?!": Buried at the end of a FarmPolicy.com post are a bunch of excerpts from a truly astonishing Wall Street Journal article (subscription
Digest: Garbage — it’s what’s for dinner! Plus, two views on food safety
"We are what they eat" — and it's even more unappetizing than you think: Forget melamine and cyanuric acid in animal feeds — we should be at least as concerned about the "business as usual" ingredients routinely fed to U.S. farm animals. This op-ed discusses the authors' Environmental
Digest: Dairy ads restricted, worrisome hormones in all milk, the Bay Area oyster wars
Like Americans, the Digest just gets fatter and fatter. We'd love to put it on a diet, but there's a lot of good stuff out there, and just as at foodie potlucks, we just can't help but load up our plates. NEWS Checkoff, unchecked: The Federal Trade Commission is asking the USDA and the dairy industry
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Dinnertime viewing
This cartoon by P.S. Mueller from the May 14 New Yorker reminded me of the BBC Three reality show "Kill It, Cook It, Eat It," which premiered back in March. The premise of the show is for eaters to learn where their meat comes from. Each
Prancing pygmy goatlet
A grad school chum of mine, who practices permaculture on her farm, posted this video on her blog recently—a mere two days after Daisy,
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