Farms

Farm Animal ER: Factory Farming Hurts Everyone

Gene Baur | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Veganism, Farm Sanctuary, Animal Rescue, Animal Sanctuary, Farms, Farm, Vegan, Farm Animals, Animals, Animal Shelter, Factory Farming, Slideexpand, Green News

If an ER for calves, pigs, chickens, turkeys and goats seems extreme to you, you may be more out of touch with your food than you think.

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SNAP: Cutting What Works?

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.20.2012

The impact of more cuts on children and families who now receive a nutritionally adequate diet from SNAP would be devastating. Where is the justice in a vote to protect wealthy farmers over hungry children?

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Four Ways The Farm Bill Can Make You Crazy

Dan Imhoff | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, 2012 Farm Bill, Farms, Farm Bill, Agricultural Policy, Agriculture, Food News

A rational, coherent blueprint for a healthy national food supply might be too much to ask. But after years of studying the Farm Bill, I'd be thrilled to see a dent made in four of its most glaring conflicts of purpose.

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Unusually Warm Weather Threatens Asparagus Farms

AP | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Farming, Asparagus Season, Farms, Asparagus, Global Warming, Climate Change, Food News

WALKERVILLE, Mich. -- Asparagus is rising from the ground because of Michigan's extraordinarily warm weather, a condition that could eventually ruin t...

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An Egg, Is an Egg, Is an Egg. Except It's Not.

Cara Rosaen | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Healthy Food, Slow Food, Farming, Eat Local, Green Movement, Organic Food, Farms, Local Food, Organic Food Movement, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Organics, Real Time Farms, Sustainability, realtimefarms.com, Food News

We assume our food system has somehow taken care of itself. The aisles of perfectly aligned boxes, and perfectly stacked produce reflect a system where a tomato is a tomato is a tomato, or an egg is an egg is an egg. Food is a commodity and it's all the same. But it's not.

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Bark Butter: Why Every Hot Dog Needs a Little More Pork Fat

Liza de Guia | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Lard, Skeeternyc, Brooklyn, Beef, Food Curated, Liza deGuia, Josh Sharkey, Park Slope, Good Food, Sustainable, Video, Bark Hot Dogs, Farms, Hot Dogs, Recipes, Heritage Foods USA, Restaurants, Cooking, Fast Food, Food, Documentary, Artisan, Pork, Bark Butter, Meat, Food News

"We're in New York. We have dirty water dogs. But, I'll be honest, I don't love a boiled hot dog. I'll probably never eat one again." Meet Josh Shar...

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Why We Farm: The Final Chapter

Neysa King | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Farmland, Homegrown Food, Farm Aid, Farms, Farm, Farmers, Food News

I began Dissertation to Dirt hoping to answer a single question: can young Americans make a career of farming? It may not seem compelling at first, but that question is the heart of the food movement.

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More Than a Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria Talks Activism

Avital Binshtock | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Clean Alternative Energy Program, Children, Epa, Beso, Agriculture, Green, The Harvest, Shine Global, Producer, Seasonal, Recycling, Regulations, Farms, Volunteer, Eva Longoria, Al Gore, Farmworkers, Dropouts, Poverty, Local, Gabrielle Solis, Pizza Fusion, Film, United Farm Workers, School, Greenville Project, Sustainable, Chefs, Las Vegas, Developers, Food, Construction, Fields, Health. Education, Pesticides, Eco, Immigrants, Retail, Hormones, Organic, Commercial Real Estate, Desperate Housewives, Inconvenient Truth, Philanthropy, Hybrids, Activism, Bill Clinton, Abc, Oregon, Toxic, Felicity Huffman, CARE Act, Laborers, Los Angeles, Gym, Portland, Fame, La Cosecha, Marcia Cross, Restaurants, Environment, Documentary, Ingredients, Ranch, Prop 87, Bottled Water, Hollywood, Green News

Eva Longoria, who plays the self-involved Gabrielle Solis on ABC's Desperate Housewives, takes on extracurricular projects that set her far apart from her shallow onscreen persona.

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Stopping Superbugs: Time for Congress and Industry to Catch Up With American Consumers

David Wallinga, M.D. | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Sustainable Agriculture, Animal Antibiotics, Sustainable Food, Antibiotics in Meat, Chipotle, Farms, Green News

Today, American farmers raising animals without antibiotics do so despite policies that point them in the opposite direction. With this handicap, who will win out in the race to feed the global consumer who increasingly wants their meat antibiotic free?

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GOP Candidate Runs On Pro-Child-Labor Platform

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Farm Workers, Video, Farms, 2012 Gop Candidates, 2012 Election, Child Labor, Mike Ross Arkansas, Tom Cotton, Migrant Workers, Factory Farms, Elections 2012, Gop, Child Labor Laws, Tom Cotton Arkansas, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Tom Cotton, a GOP candidate for Congress, says he would like to see more children working long hours out in America's agricultural field...

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Antibiotics With Your Thanksgiving Leftovers?

Josh Tetrick | Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Vegetarian, Humane, Empathy, Sustainable Food, Humane Society, Vegan, Agriculture, Green, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Animals, Diet, Vegetarianism, Organic, Organic Farms, Eggs, Farms, Ethics, Morality, Heart Disease, Impact, Farming, Healthy Living, Factory Farming, Lifestyle, Social Change, Healthy, Healthy Living News, Hope, Plant-Based, Nutrition, Environment, Food, Social Good, Diet and Nutrition, Video, Impact News

Spit out that Thanksgiving leftover ham and pick up a barf bag. Because even the hardy Pilgrims would take a pass on some of those leftovers if they k...

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Farm Exports Boom Despite Languishing Economy

AP | By STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Agricultural Trade, Farm Export Boom, Farms, Agricultural Exports, US Agriculture, Value of Farm Exports, Agriculture, Farm Export Value, US Farm Exports, Farm Exports, Video, Food News

MINNEAPOLIS -- As U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visits Vietnam and China to talk trade this week, he's hoping to build on one of the few brig...

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Occupy Your Kitchen!

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Farming, Farms, Cooking, Agriculture, Food Democracy Now!, Food, Big Ag, Food and Water Watch, Chefs Collaborative, Occupy, Adm, Monsanto, Tyson, Food News

What we have is not just a food problem in this country, but a cooking problem. Food marketers have been working for decades to convince people that cooking is a chore.

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Update: The Farm After Three Years

Mark Horvath | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Mark Horvath, Homelessness, Invisiblepeople, Farms, Homeless, Community, Cobblestone Project, Tv, Mike Rusch, Impact News

Thanks to the generous heart of Mike Rusch I was able this year to attended The Farm's Fall Harvest Party. It's actually hard to imagine me even being on a farm in Arkansas, much less having played a part of any farm's creation.

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Pick Your Own Rosh Hashanah Apples (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Virginia, Jews, Holidays, Honey, Religious Traditions, Bible, Farms, Pick-Your-Own, Rosh Hashanah, Travel, Apples, New Year, D.C., Slidepollajax, Pick-Your-Own-Fruit, Maryland, DC News

Extend your Rosh Hashanah festivities through the weekend by heading out to pick your own apples. Yes, it's getting late in apple season, but some are...

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WATCH: How One Farm Will Keep Going After Hurricane Irene

Liza de Guia | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Devastation, David Lloyd, Recovery, Food Videos, Dairy Farm, Hurricane Irene Floods, News, Denise Lloyd, Skeeternyc, Crops, Corn, Hurricane Irene, Food Curated, Maple Downs Farm, Flooding, Liza deGuia, Cattle, 2011, New York, Costs, Holsteins, Feed, Farms, Documentary, Upstate, Schoharie, Middleburgh, Food News

"I didn't have time to think about being scared." On August 28th, hundreds of farms in upstate New York were destroyed by massive floods caused by Hu...

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Walmart To Double Budget Dedicated To Working With Women

Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Retailers, Women, Gender Equality, U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, Construction Firms, Video, The U.S. State Department, Farms, Mike Duke, Sex-Discrimination Lawsuit, Count Me in for Women's Economic Independence, Manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Business News

(Jessica Wohl) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc will double the money it spends with women-owned businesses, train women around the world and push major supp...

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Should Every Restaurant Have A Farm?

Liza de Guia | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Goatfell Farm, Farming, Small Business, Produce, Nyc, Skeeternyc, Menus, George Weld, Brooklyn, Agriculture, Green, Food Curated, Liza deGuia, Passion, How to Farm, Good Food, Sustainable, Small Farms, Egg Restaurant, Williamsburg, Education, Inspiring, Restaurant, Farms, Food Video, Southern Food, Cooking, Vegetables, Documentary, Food, Chef, Food News

"Last year we had way more produce than we could use, so this year, we tried to scale back a little bit to hit the sweet spot a little more closely." ...

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WATCH: A Hidden Secret In The Hudson Valley

ossining.patch.com | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: New York State Travel, Video, Hudson Valley, New York Destinations, Farms, Farm Tours, US Destinations, Travel News

Rockland, Putnam and Westchester County residents escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life at Hilltop Hanover Farm....

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A Day at a Farm With Rob MacInnis

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Farms, Photography, Animal Portraits, Farm Animals, Rob MacInnis, Arts News

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Where Are You?

Josh Tetrick | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Vegetarian, Humane, Empathy, Humane Society, Sustainable Food, Vegan, Agriculture, Green, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Diet, Animals, Vegetarianism, Organic, Organic Farms, Eggs, Farms, Ethics, Morality, Battery Cages, Impact, Farming, Lifestyle, Social Change, Factory Farming, Healthy, Hope, Compassion, Plant-Based, Nutrition, Cooking, Environment, Food, Social Good, Compassion Over Killing, Food News

Where are you? Three rows of masks hang on the wall. Barbed-wire encircles the building. Enormous sets of fans bang. Machines power on intermittently...

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Georgia's Illegal Immigration Solution: Farms Should Hire Workers On Probation

AP | RAY HENRY | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Farms, Georgia Immigration Law, Farms Immigration, Agriculture, Nathan Deal, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Georgia, Georgia Illegal Immigration Law, Politics News

ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal offered a provocative solution Tuesday for farmers who claim workers have been scared away by a crackdown on ...

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Florida: Could Photo of Pigpen Get You 30 Years in the State Pen?

Scott Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Constitution, First Ammendment, Industrial Ag, Animal Abuse, Waste Managment, Weird Florida, Hormones, Public Information, Public Records, Second Amendment, Video, Photographs, Illegal, Farms, Cafos, Florida State Senate, Constitutional Rights, Prison, Water Pollution, Sunshine Laws, Antibiotics, Senator Jim Norman, Agribusiness, Dumb Criminals, Florida, SB 1246, Freedom of Information, Green News

Senator Norman's misguided bill is yet another attempt to keep a tight, dark lid on the many, many wrongs being committed today by the factory farming industry.

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Senate Reaches Agreement On Food Safety Bill To Exempt Small Farms

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Farms, Congress, Senate, Food-Safety-Act, Food Safety, Food Recall, Jon Tester, Food Safety Bill, Farms, Food News

WASHINGTON — Some small farms would be exempt from government efforts to prevent foodborne illness under a Senate agreement on food safety legis...

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Jerry Appleseed

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tree, Cider, Stamford Advocate, Baseball, Applesauce, Orchard, Humor, Football, Reporter, Apples, Wagon, Midwest, Wife, Juice, Fruit, Farms, Bags, Pies, Baskets, Candies, Applejack, New York Times, Doctor, Stamford, Comedy News

Everyone knows the story of Johnny Appleseed, who introduced apples in the Midwest by saying, "Granny Smith, meet McIntosh. Mac has invented a newfang...

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