Food
You Are What You Eat: The Good and Bad of Chicken Farming
The next time you sit down to a chicken dinner, or even a bag of nuggets, you might give a thought to the chicken. Did it spend its life in an animal paradise like Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm? Lots of fresh air, good food, sunlight, room to roam? Watch the vi...
Our Government Did Something Truly Amazing
The government has come up with an extraordinary new program.The program operates with no additional revenues from either the local or Federal governments.
The program is supported by both Democrats and Republicans with a history of them working ...
Salmonella In Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter
A random test by the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration found peanut butter contaminated with Salmonella.According to the FDA:
Salmonella is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and th...
Algae Attacks
Four hundred thousand people in Ohio are without clean drinking water. Their water, which is sourced from Lake Erie, is contaminated with microcystin. This dangerous toxin is the by-product of a particular blue-green algae. If the water were to be ingested, it...
No Respect For Clean Water
America's 67th largest city is without clean water.The Elephant in the room
The number one cause of fresh water pollution in the United States is agricultural runoff. Animal manure and fertilizers contain high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus. When that ...
Gone Fishing?
Over-fishing of our oceans could spell doom for the future of seafood.If you fancy a good fish dinner or rely on our gilled-friends as a main dietary staple, you may have to rethink your protein sources in the very near future. According to the Census of ...
Drones Investigating Factory Farms
Will Potter is an activist and investigative journalist who has taken on the investigation of factory farms and slaughterhouses with the use of drones. As a critic of the “ag-gag” laws, Potter exposed the dichotomy of protecting the factory farms violently abu...
Grandma versus Environmental Protection Agency
Things aren't always as they seem. Take the following story for example.Lois Alt is a nice grandmother who once worked as an electrician in Virginia. In order to live closer to her family, she left her career to become a farmer. She and her husband investe...
The yearlong Salmonella outbreak
A salmonella outbreak linked to Foster Farms chicken isn't over and has now infected 524 people in 25 states and Puerto Rico, federal health officials said.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in January that the outbreak, which has been...
Monsanto is buying their way into your supermarkets
Monsanto and five other top agrochemical companies have donated a combined $455,000 to defeat an Oregon county ballot initiative that would restrict the growth of genetically-modified crops in area farms.The internationally-powerful “Big Six” chemical comp...