Debate over using anti-microbials in livestock - San Francisco Gate

June 15, 2009 :: Posted by - :: Category - Green Living

(06-14) 21:10 PDT — Conventional cattle ranchers and pig and chicken farmers routinely feed their animals a steady diet of antibiotics to prevent illness and help them grow fatter faster. But as consumers become more obsessed with what they eat …

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‘Food, Inc.’ is coming - Los Angeles Times Blogs

June 11, 2009 :: Posted by - :: Category - Green Living

Food, Inc. decries our processed-food diets, industrial farming, hormone-fed animals, cloned meat, genetic engineering and more. A Reuters story describes how the food industry is fighting back against the movie, partly via websites of its own, such …

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Thoughts on Paws : State denial of Burkholder kennel license showing … - Reading Eagle

June 08, 2009 :: Posted by - admin :: Category - Green Living

Housebroken, well-trained, thirtysomething animal lover Susan Miers Smith seeks enlightened readers to share the funny, trying and perplexing experiences of life shared with animals. The occasional caustic rant on abuse and human stupidity is also a …

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Born To Show Off - Newsweek

June 06, 2009 :: Posted by - :: Category - Green Living

Marketers understand that humans, like other animals, have evolved finely tuned mechanisms for competing for status—and that our choice of a consumer brand is less about the material item itself and more about advertising our wealth, beauty and …

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Walla Walla organic farm tours planned - Tri-City Herald

June 02, 2009 :: Posted by - :: Category - Green Living

Walla Walla Learn more about the land and animals at The Bennington Place near Walla Walla, home to Thundering Hooves, an organic farm raising pastured livestock and poultry, during a farm tour and dinner June 27. PCC Farmland Trust bought the land …

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Omaha Toys R Us stores are among first to offer snacks - Omaha World-Herald

May 25, 2009 :: Posted by - :: Category - Green Living

Two Omaha Toys R Us stores now offer animal crackers and hard candy along with stuffed animals and the board game Candy Land. An assortment of snacks and breakfast foods is on display at a Toys R Us store in Wayne, N.J. To help make shopping more …

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Keeping cows happy and still eat [organic grassfed] beef - San Francisco Examiner

May 20, 2009 :: Posted by - :: Category - Green Living

When I was a kid growing up in Illinois, six nights a week my Mom served us delicious dinners of chicken, pork, beef roasts, and hamburgers. She met meat, loved it, and passed on the love to my siblings and me. She’d grown up around farm animals …

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Dairy farmers eager for families to get a taste of the rural life - La Crosse Tribune

May 13, 2009 :: Posted by - :: Category - Green Living

NORWALK — Spring is a busy time on Harvey and Jackie Menn’s Monroe County dairy farm. Fences need mending. Baby animals need tending. Crops need planting. And daily chores don’t go away. Jenna Menn, 15, feeds a Jersey calf on her family’s …

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Beyond Organic: Animals Raised Organic Can Be Mistreated and Caged, in … - Huffingtonpost.com

May 12, 2009 :: Posted by - :: Category - Green Living

It’s Saturday afternoon and you’re checking out at your local co-op. You’re behind another member of your community, lining up your organic eggs, organic pork chops, organic milk, organic lamb shank, and organic cheese. You feel pretty content. You …

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ORGANIC OASIS - Minneapolis Star Tribune

May 05, 2009 :: Posted by - :: Category - Green Living

Loretta and Martin Jaus farm with animals in mind. That doesn’t mean they raise meat. It’s a dairy farm, so cows come first, no question. But anything else with feathers or fur also has, as the song goes, a place in the choir. When I drove to the …

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