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No Poison Served…

I was in my son’s high school this week and I noticed a person drinking a diet soda. I became irritated that we allow this in schools. I remember my days when I was a school teacher and teachers smoked in the school lunch room and all around the school grounds. In only 15 years, [...]

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Ambassador, Crusader, Rebel and Lunatic Farmer

Joel Salatin with one of his flock

Joel Salatin is a rebel with a cause, a lobbyist against “food laws and bureaucratic decisions for the food industry that don’t make sense.” He is one of the most influential farmers in America. He is an advocate of holistic, natural farming and a crusader of being a steward [...]

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Lamb: Raised in Confinement

Sustainable farming is all about making choices to produce wholesome, healthy products that people can enjoy without sacrificing the welfare of animals or the health of the environment.
Most modern farming practices focus only on reducing the costs of production and ignore the costs to the livestock, soil, air, water, and human health associated with these [...]

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Crop Subsidies = dinner?

Imagine if we had to live only on the foods that our government subsidizes for the crops from the Food and Farm Bill?
The “subsidy garden” reflects the $11 billion per year spent on BIG AG.
The subsidy garden consists of:

corn
wheat
rice
cotton
soybeans
tobacco
sorghum
canola
sunflower

Which would you prefer for your dinner?
Imagine if that $11 billion went to the smaller crops and [...]

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