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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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WATCH: Illegal Backyard Chickens

Daniel Klein | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Nashville, Daniel Klein, Chicken, Mirra Fine, Farm, Perennial Plate, Backyard, Organic, Sustainable, Food News

The backyard chicken trend is becoming more and more prevalent these days. But in many North American cities, keeping a flock of hens is still illegal.

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Rising Number of Farm Animals Poses Environmental and Public Health Risks

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Food Production, Population Growth, Health Risks, Dairy, Farm, Milk, Environment, Animals, Green News

Farm-animal production provides a safety net for millions of the world's most vulnerable people, but given the industry's rapid and often poorly regulated growth, the biggest challenge will be to produce meat in environmentally and socially sustainable ways.

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Pie Corps: Two Bakers on a Mission to Make You Love Pie (video)

Liza de Guia | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Small Business, Liza De Guia, Farm to Table, Skeeternyc, Brooklyn, Pie Fillings, Food Curated, Desserts, Pie Making, Featured, Rooster Group, Food Artisan, Next Big Small Brand, New York, Bakers, Pie Crust, New Amsterdam Market, Felipa Lopez, Chocolate Pudding Pie, Food Video, Recipes, Pie Corps, Flaky Crust, Farm, Pies, Best Pie Crust, Cheryl Perry, Baking, How to Make Pie, Food, Gourmet Guild, Food News

"We have a pie shape for every hunger level and every need." Meet Cheryl Perry and Felipa Lopez, the founders and bakers behind Pie Corps, an artisan...

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PHOTOS: Property With Two Lakes And Reservoir On Sale

Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Boulder County, Priceless Water Property, Denver Real Estate, Farm, Boulder, Hygiene Colorado, 7001 Rozena Drive, Birch Lake, Lake-Constance, Independent Reservoir, Fuller Sotheby's, Denver News

A Victorian home in Boulder County described as a "priceless" water property surrounded by private bodies of water is listed on the market for $12 mil...

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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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Back on the Farm

Edward Flattau | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Farm Bill, 2012 Farm Bill, Farm, Agriculture, Green News

It is good news that some farmers recently have been able to buy back their acreage from developers as land prices have fallen and crop prices have risen. But this news is not nearly good enough.

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Homogenized Shomogenized?

Carolyn Ossorio | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Chocolate Milk, Homogenization, Cows, Kids, Dairy, Farm, Milk, Pasteurization, Homogenized Milk, Organic Milk, Parents News

"Wait a second. Pasteurization and homogenization are not the same thing?" Larry shook his head. "Homogenization is a process which alters milk's natural state by forcing it through small openings at high pressure.

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WATCH: Surreal Sculpture On A Farm

VernissageTV | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Pablo Bronstein, Public Space, Public Art, Switzerland, Museums, Farm, Sculpture, Monument, Contemporary Art, Psychedelic, Drugs, Performance Art, Zurich, Countryside, UK Arts, Video, Arts News

The Garden of Forking Paths is the title of an outdoor sculpture project, which the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst is staging on the Blum family e...

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Bird Soaks in Me

Katherine Dunn | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Birds, Art, Spirit, Farm, Nature, Arts News

While I was in the barn yesterday taking pictures of the building, I heard the distinctive call of the Western Tanager. The photo is nothing worth talking about, but I felt compelled to take it.

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Stars Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Farm Sanctuary

Wendy Diamond | Posted 07.23.2011

Farm animals danced and greeted guests as they arrived to celebrate the 25th Anniversary for Farm Sanctuary at Cipriani Wall Street on May 14th. "If ...

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Weekly Audit: The Shocking Truth About Taxes

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.19.2011

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The super rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their tax rates are lower. According to I...

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Watching the Future Wash Away

Donald Carr | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Farming, Soil, Toxic, Run Off, Corn, Agriculture, Dead Zone, Conservation, Erosion, Chemicals, Corn Belt, Commodity Crop, Farm, Water, Agribusiness, Soybeans, Farm Subsidies, Usda, Farm Bill, Crp, Eqip, Green News

Bad federal policy and intensifying storms are washing away the rich dark soils in the Midwest that made this country an agricultural powerhouse and that remain the essential foundation of a healthy and sustainable food system in the future.

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Photographs of the Dying: A Shared Experience Amongst Creatures

Katherine Dunn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Photography, Farming, Wisdoms, Farm Animals, Hospice Work, Farm, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News

She weighed just 4 pounds. I had secretly named her Little Daisy, which is a mistake. One should never name a lamb before a few days; you learn that.

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Weekly Audit: Hostile Takeover Threat Spurs Concessions from Michigan Unions

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sexism, EARTHA JANE MELZER, Sally Kohn, Chris Hayes, Pension, Union, Detroit, Laura Flanders, YES! MAGAZINES, Jamelle Bouie, Supreme Court, Paul Abowd, Dean Baker, Shock Doctrine, Grittv, EMERGENCY MANAGER, Tapped, Wal-Mart, Wage, American Prospect, In These Times, Scott Lemieux, Michigan Messenger, Discrimination, Michigan, Class Action, JENNY LEE, Police, Farm, Labor, Fire, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Michigan's new Emergency Manager Law is already forcing major concessions from unions. The law gives t...

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Bunny: The Life & Death Of Your $35 Entrée

Daniel Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bunny, Butcher, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Farm, Slaughter, How To, Documentary, Rabbit, Food News

Their meat is tasty, and among the most climate-friendly protein options out there, since they're herbivores, grow to maturity quickly, and reproduce ... well, like rabbits. (Warning: this video is not for the squeamish.)

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From the Front Lines of the Great New Mexico Gas-Out

Judith Acosta | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Natural Gas, Self-Sustaining, Self-Sufficiency, New Mexico, Farm, Homesteading, Energy, Sustainability, State of Emergency, Politics, Healthy Living News

Why are we asking other people, especially corporate or governmental entities what we're supposed to do? What are we thinking? What was I thinking?

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Blue Dog Congressman Sanford Bishop Knew About Pigford Fraud

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Congressman, Andrew Breitbart, Congress, Tom Vilsack, Charles Rangel, Farm, Farmers, Breitbart, Pigford, Pigford v. Glickman, Georgia, Usda, Democrats, Democratic Party, Charlie Rangel, Sanford Bishop, Politics News

A Georgia farmer has made a stunning allegation: he told Rep. Bishop about fraud in the Pigford settlement, and the congressman replied that an investigation into Pigford would "shut it down."

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Inspired by Donkey Ears (and Why It Matters)

Katherine Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seeing, Art, Paintings, Inspiration, Katherine Dunn, Observing, Farm, Creative Illustration Workshop, Apifera Farm, Arts News

My newfound affliction to donkey ears is a beautiful gift not only to my art, but also to my life and health. For observing them requires me to stop and experience each enjoyable twitch.

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Astoria Characters: The Crusading Composter

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

In a good week, Stephanos Koullias will collect nearly 1,000 pounds of other people's excess edibles.

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You Say Tomato, I Say Slavery (video)

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Publix, Iowa, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Kurt, Burger King, Agriculture, Penny-a-Pound, Immigration, Immokalee, Kurt Friese, Stephen Colbert, Slow Food, Bamco, McDonald's, Recipes, Farm, Migrant Labor, Slavery, Taco Bell, Chef, Artisan, Recipe, Tomato, Ahold, Gastronomy, Food Writing, Kroger, Cuisine, Sustainable, Corps, Artisanal, Labor, Yum! Brands, Cooking, Food, Kurt Michael Friese, Florida, Whole Foods, Friese, Video, Food News

When you buy tomatoes at the local Publix, Ahold, Kroger, or Walmart, you become the last link in a chain that is attached to shackles in south Florida.

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Astoria Characters: The Homemade Food Blogger

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bingo, Jell-O, Astoria, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, Home Economics, Corn Field, Kitchen, Jonathan Kozol, Teacher, Indiana University, Times Square, Baptist, Bradley O'Bryan Hawks, Norman Rockwell, Coach, Farm, Hotel, Depauw University, Food Blog, Cherub, Waiter, Amuse * Bouche, Ketchup, New York News, Indiana, South Bronx, Wanamaker, Yahtzee, Nancy Ruhling, New York News

"The biggest thing about cooking is the story about it," says Amuse * Bouche blogger Bradley O'Bryan Hawks. "The story always makes the food taste better."

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Taxpayers Funding Pro-Pesticide PR Campaign

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fruits and Vegetables, Alliance for Food and Farming, Farming, Organic Farming, Pesticides, Clean Fifiteen, Farm, Big Ag, Agriculture, Residue, Shoppers Guide to Pesticides, Farm Subsidies, Environmental Working Group, Dirty Dozen, Organic, Organics, Green News

The Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF), a California trade association, wants you to have less information about pesticide residues on the fruits and...

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Farm Bill 2012: The Shelf Life Theory

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, Farm Subsidy, Crop, Commodity, 2012 Farm Bill, Michelle Obama, Corn, Farm, Agribusiness, Cancer, Farm Subsidies, Obesity, Corporate Farm, Farm Bill, Ncga, Food News

The battle has already begun over the direction of America's broken food and farm policy and how to shape it in the next farm bill.

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Raising Guinea Hens (Including the Great Guinea Surprise!)

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Eggs, Guinea, Animals, Farm, Healthy Living News

We started keeping guinea hens about three years ago because we live in the woods, and I wanted something to eat the ticks.

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