Meghan Pusey
Sept. 28, 2007
The latest video in a series that tells the real story of today’s American cattle ranchers is now available on the new Beef -from Pasture to Plate Web site.
The video follows Dennis Thaler and his family, who work together to run Thaler Land & Livestock Company, a 20,000 acre ranch and farm [...]
“I read a piece by Dennis Avery in today’s Minneapolis Star. Dennis expressed concern that ‘organic farms may have concentrated themselves on steep hilly land that is prone to mudslides.’ I have visited many farmers in the Upper Midwest and I can say without reservation that this assertion is incorrect. Their losses are not due [...]
By Alex Avery
Jeffrey Smith has been a dedicated activist against agricultural biotechnology at least since 2003, when he released his first self-published anti-biotech book Seeds of Deception. His second book, Genetic Roulette, was released in 2007, complete with a forward by former UK Environment Minister Michael Meacher. We wonder if Mr. Meacher knows who he [...]
The Conservative Voice
by Alan Caruba
September 14, 2007
To put it quite simply, unless you and everyone else becomes a vegetarian or adopts the vegan (no animal products, period!) lifestyle, the Earth is going to come to an end or you will probably die from some horrid disease.
Sound extreme? Sound just a bit nutty? Not according to [...]
Washington, D.C., A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours [...]
The recent report from Catherine Badgley et al. at the University of Michigan (Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, July, 2007) claimed that “organic agriculture has the potential to contribute quite substantially to the global food supply†and said “organic methods could produce enough food on a global per capita basis to sustain the current human [...]
A new danger has beset the nation’s struggling organic farms—too much rain. Hundreds of organic farms in southwestern Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota were drenched by a foot of rain in late August. The heavy downpour washed out plantings, eroded soil, and damaged fences and buildings. The owner of Wisconsin’s Harmony Valley Farm estimated his damages [...]
Mr. Will Daniels oversees food safety at Earthbound Farm in Salinas, CA—the company that last year grew and packaged the bagged spinach that killed three people, including a 2-year-old boy, due to contamination with E. coli 0157 bacteria. The spinach also sickened at least 200 other people, many with serious kidney failure.
“We thought we [...]
