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How to Buy Grass-fed Meats

Maria Rodale | Posted 04.17.2012

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Maria Rodale

by guest blogger Marilyn Noble, Communications Director, American Grassfed Association Grass-fed meats are showing up everywhere--in grocery stores, ...

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Big Ag's Gifts For 2011

Andrew Gunther | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Food Safety, Chicken, Farming, Animal Welfare, Health, Genetically Engineered Foods, Grass-Fed, Genetically Modified Food, Hsus, Slidepollajax, Food News
Andrew Gunther

Cheap food comes at a cost. But the good news is that it is not too late to change the way our food is produced.

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Grassfed Meat: Making the Right Choices

Andrew Gunther | Posted 02.12.2012

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Andrew Gunther

We hope to explain the problems with feedlot farming systems, but also the significant solutions that real grassfed farming can offer, and why it is important to choose a "grassfed" label that really means what it says.

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Beef Jerky That Doesn't Taste Like Plastic

Liza de Guia | Posted 07.10.2011

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Liza de Guia

"The SlantShack Laboratories are really a collection of just thought experiments, if you will. And it's through testing these waters and really pushin...

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Lindy & Grundy, Your Typical Neighborhood Butchers, Open Shop

Alexis C. Jolly | Posted 06.05.2011

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Alexis C. Jolly

Dining on atypical cuts may seem to be solely the domain of foodies, snobs who use food as cultural capital. I've met people like that and, yes, they're assholes.

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Grass-Fed Gripes: Problems With Our Eating Cul

Peter Meehan in the New York Times Magazine | SEEING THINGS | Posted 05.25.2011

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With some prodding, the butcher explained that hogget is meat from a sheep that is older than a lamb and younger than the animals that make mutton. It...

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Beware the Myths of Feedlot Marketeers

Andrew Gunther | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Gunther

Industrialized animal agriculture has a lot to answer for when it comes to its impact on animal welfare, the environment, and the livelihood of family farms.

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PHOTOS: 8 Ways You Can Be Fooled By Your Food

Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011

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We heartily applaud any effort to green your diet. But beware: looks can be misleading. While organic is much better for the environment since it ex...

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Making a Case for Why Grass-Fed Meat Is Better (VIDEO)

Liza de Guia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Meatcamp, Sustainable Food, Beef, Skeeternyc, Food Curated, Lamb, Omnivore's Dilemma, Grass-Fed, Spring Lake Farm, Sustainable, Slow Food, Chefs, Video, Cows, Local Food Movement, Cooking, Food, Pork, Meat, Food News
Liza de Guia

Meet farmer Ingimundur and Ulla Kjarval of Spring Lake Farm. To them, grass-fed meat has a beefy, distinctive taste to it -- a taste they are sure New York diners and chefs will want to seek out.

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Food Safety We Need More Than a Band Aid

Andrew Gunther | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eggs, Chickens, Animal Welfare, Sustainable Food, Food Politics, Grass-Fed, Sustainable Agriculture, Ecoli-Outbreak, Cage Free Eggs, Animals, Eggs Salmonella, Food News
Andrew Gunther

As the egg recall fades, I took a look at exactly what went on? Reality is. has anything really changed is anything going to change? Or as I fear it will be buisiness as usual?

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PHOTOS: Almond, Hemp, Rice, Raw And More: Your Guide To Milk

Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011

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For something so traditional, so normal, so American, milk has spurred a huge battle among the food conscious. Choosing your milk has become a stateme...

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Can Eating Baby Veal Be Guilt-Free?

Laura Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grass-Fed, Animal Welfare, Veal, Organic Food, Food Politics, Los Angeles News
Laura Klein

What is more important: the traditional definition of veal (a calf that is fed nutritionally deficient formula or milk that's raised in confined spaces), or a humanely raised healthy animal that is grass fed?

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Truthfulness Is the Last Taboo

Sebastian Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sebastian Siegel

Truthfulness Is The Last Taboo: A short poem I texted to myself in the checkout line at Whole Foods, for another me in some other way -- here, now, or before and beyond time.

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Meat Labels: What Do They Really Mean?

The Stir | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Stir

You're strolling past the meat counter, wondering what to grill this weekend, and you see all of those labels: organic, free range, natural. Natural? ...

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The Nutritional Superiority of Pasture Raised Animals

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

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David Kirby

You are what you eat - and the same goes for the animals whose meat, milk and eggs you put in your mouth. We should not only be concerned about what we eat, but what our food eats as well.

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All Cows Don't Eat Grass, and Other Ways the Food System Has Changed Our Vernacular

Cathy Erway | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cathy Erway

Cows have not been evolved to digest corn, but it's become the basic feed of industrial agriculture livestock. And, most of that corn has been genetically modified. What else is new?

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5 Steps To More Intimacy...With Your Food

Joseph Satto | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Grass-Fed, Pastured-Poultry, Humane, Local Food, Organic Food, Seasonal Eating, Local Farmers, Food Labels, Food, Healthy Living News
Joseph Satto

Hens that are 'Cage Free' or 'Free Range' don't necessarily ever make it outside and an egg by definition is from a farm of some sort.

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Eco-Food Buzz Words: What Do They Mean? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 05.25.2011

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Local. Organic. Cage Free. Free Range. What does it all mean? It's easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of labels out there for your food, a...

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Prisons Raise And Serve Grass-Fed Beef

Hartke Is Online! | Posted 05.25.2011

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Inmates at White Post are enlisted in animal husbandry at Sky Meadow to raise cattle for beef production. The program is a collaboration of several en...

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Your New Year's Resolution: Eat More Organics

Dr. John Salerno | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. John Salerno

You may know a local source for organics that we haven't heard of. To support these local farmers, and cheese makers, and cottage kitchens, write to us and tell us what they sell and where to order.

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Nicolette Hahn Niman: A Vegetarian Ranchers Explains How to Raise Animals the Right Way

Tara Lohan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tara Lohan

Part personal narrative and part investigative journalism, her Righteous Porkchop is a much-needed addition to the conversation about what should be on our plates these days.

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HuffPost Readers' Local Food Dishes (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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One part of No Impact Week last week was to focus on eating local, sustainable and/or organic food in order to be conscious of the eco-footprint of wh...

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Publisher Judith Jones Sets Example Raising Grass-Fed Steaks

nytimes.com | CHRISTINE MUHLKE | Posted 05.25.2011

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Three years ago, [publisher Judith Jones] started raising cattle. Now when her writers visit her summer home in northern Vermont to test recipes, they...

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What Men Want

Dr. Nicholas Perricone | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey, Men, David Beckham, Christian Bale, Usher, Mark Wahlberg, Taye Diggs, Antioxidant Foods, Grass-Fed, Health Food, Impact of Eating Meat, Dr. Perricone, Omega-3-Fatty-Acids, Free-Range, Free-Range-Chickens, Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Healthy Living News
Dr. Nicholas Perricone

Eating a lot of fish and fresh fruit and vegetables is ideal for creating beautiful skin and eliminating body fat, and is ideal for women andmen.

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