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Food Rights

Shrimp…

I have been ordering Maine wild shrimp this past month.
They truly are delicious delicacies that pop in your mouth.  Whichever way I cook them (sautéed, or in a soup), I cook them until they are ‘just cooked’ and then serve them.  Very similar to cooking scallops, I pull them off  the heat before they [...]

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Bee My Honey

I am reading about bees.
Since 2006, 30-90% of honey bees have left their hives, never to return.
Pesticides are one of the culprits that have been fingered.  A group of beekeepers has called on the EPA to remove Poncho, a commonly used pesticide, from store shelves.  The group claims that Poncho may be responsible for the [...]

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Farmers and a Slaughter Facility Brought Together by Michael Pollan: Food Systems Being Rebuilt in Healthy Human Ways

When I enter Lorentz Meats in Cannon Falls MN, I am greeted with a sign that reads:
“We cannot live harmlessly at our own expense; we depend on other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. The point is, when we do this [...]

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Headfirst into the Raw Milky Way

The Massachuessetts Department of Agriculture and Resources (MDAR) and the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) say they support our small dairy farms, but what do they really support?
It certainly appears that the MDAR and NOFA are working together.
Some excerpts (with important facts) of my letter to NOFA:
NOFA stated:
“The fact that MDAR is putting off these [...]

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