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Snapshot from Slow Food Nation: Slow on the Go vendor Fatted Calf
Late Saturday afternoon I ran into Taylor Boetticher, who with Toponia Miller are the meat geniuses behind Fatted Calf and the youngest rock stars of the Bay Area's charcuterie boom. (They still laugh about me calling their duck-liver
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Big problems? Blame the little guy
Been feeling a bit queasy about all the contaminated meat peppering the news lately? Put that weary stomach to rest. Yes, children, all is well with the world (or at least the world of ground beef). In yet
Another European agency urges caution on approving cloned meat and dairy
The International Herald Tribune reports that the European Food Safety Authority has declined to give milk and meat from cloned animals a greenlight in its final report, published yesterday. Although it says that upon reviewing the
Animal behavior: Crackdowns on meatpacking workers give new meaning to ‘inhumane’
Mainstream media and many of the blogs covered the raid of the Agriprocessors, Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville, IA when it took place back in May. It was the largest immigration raid of a single site by the Immigration
Something good for a change: USDA increases info access on meat recalls
Score one for access to information. The USDA announced today that starting next month, it will publicize the names of retail stores that have received shipments of recalled meat and
Bill Moyers Journal looks at worker safety in the poultry industry
Back in February, the Charlotte Observer published a shocking six-part series on the human suffering involved in producing cheap chicken. "The Cruelest Cuts" package looked at typical
Local meat gets star treatment at Kansas farmers market
Kansas may be the beef capital (PDF) of the United States, but people here aren't necessarily eating beef from the neighborhood. To introduce
Apocalypse Cowabunga! The Simpsons on factory farming
I'm close to finishing "Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds," a new book by the fearsomely qualified Claire Hope Cummings. It's
Announcing the Bay Area’s newest meat CSA: the Clark Summit Farm Meat Club!
In September 2006 I complained to then-San Francisco Chronicle reporter Carol Ness that there were plenty of veggie Community Supported Agriculture programs in the Bay Area, but none that would give you a selection of chicken, beef, pork, and eggs every month. She quoted
Digest – Blogs: Farmers as serfs, re-naturalized landscapes, Logsdon on carnivorism
"Kill your buddy": A guest post uses Pilgrim's Pride poultry operations in North Carolina to explain what a clustercluck our supposedly free-market meat industry is. "Like all integrators, Pilgrim’s Pride determines the cost of the farmer’s investment, and therefore debt, determines
Digest – Features: Everybody (hearts) young farmers, meat graders, and organic charts
All hail the Greenhorns!: A Weekend Style feature celebrates the emerging movement of young back-to-the-landers, "creating small-scale farms near urban areas hungry for quality produce and willing to pay a premium," many of them being captured in a documentary by Friend o'Ethicurean Severine
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Digest – News: Downergate public flogging, Farm Bill drags on, salmon sadness
One CEO having very bad month: Hallmark/Westland Meat's CEO testified before a House Subcommittee (after being subpoenaed) that sick animals were not slaughtered at his slaughterhouse for food. He changed his tune when shown a second video, one that had been on the Humane Society's website since mid-Feb…and
Digest – Features: Abattoir ambitions, grain stampede, farming the bluefin
Locally raised, locally slaughtered: Farmer Cheryl Ouellette raises pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks on her Summit farm in Pierce County, WA, but she has to drive them all over to be slaughtered. Which is why she's on fire to get a mobile abattoir built — and with all the interest she's sparked,
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Digest – News: More Downergate fallout, Monsanto defeat likely in Kansas, moth myth busters
The full Digest is now back with a vengeance. Umbrellas up! And thanks to Jack for his help. Nothing but the worst for our kids: For years the USDA has had problems ensuring that beef supplied to the national school-lunch program meets food-safety
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Keepin’ it natural: Urgent action on meat labels
On a recent trip to the grocery store, a friend of mine living in the Midwest decided to put in a plug for grass-fed beef. They won't supply it if we don't ask for it, right? She approached the man behind the meat counter and asked if they carried it. With a completely straight face, he responded: "Grass-fed?
