by guest blogger Marilyn Noble, Communications Director, American Grassfed Association Grass-fed meats are showing up everywhere--in grocery stores, ...
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.
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.
"The SlantShack Laboratories are really a collection of just thought experiments, if you will. And it's through testing these waters and really pushin...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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?
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...
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?
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.
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? ...
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.
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?
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
Three years ago, [publisher Judith Jones] started raising cattle. Now when her writers visit her summer home in northern Vermont to test recipes, they...
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.
