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McDonald’s Insists On Better Treatment Of Pigs
It’s the biggest and perhaps best-known restaurant chain in the world. And today, in a joint statement with The HSUS, it announced its intention to get out of the business of gestation crates for breeding sows in the United States. McDonald’s declared that it “wants to see the end of sow confinement in gestation stalls in our U.S. supply chain” and further notes that “there are alternatives that we think are better for the welfare of sows.”
read more‘Good Food’ Showing At Sedona Library On January 20th
Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest. After leaving the land for decades, family farmers are making a comeback. They are growing much healthier food, and more food per acre, while using less energy and water than factory farms. And most of this food is organic. For decades Northwest agriculture was focused on a few big crops for export. But climate change and the end of cheap energy mean that each region needs to produce more of its own food and to grow it more sustainably. Good Food visits farmers, farmers' markets, distributors, stores, restaurants and public officials who are developing a more sustainable food system for all...
read moreThe Rotten Truth Behind Egg McMuffins
Mercy For Animals, known for exposing instances of animal cruelty across the country, has just released its newest undercover footage. The video, which was shot at McDonald's egg supplier Sparboe Egg Farms, the fifth largest egg supplier in the country, shows various acts of animal cruelty...
read moreNevada Health Dept. Raids Local ‘Farm To Fork’ Picnic Dinner
It is the latest case of extreme government food tyranny, and one that is sure to have you reeling in anger and disgust. Health department officials recently conducted a raid of Quail Hollow Farm, an organic community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in southern Nevada, during its special "farm to fork" picnic dinner put on for guests -- and the agent who arrived on the scene ordered that all the fresh, local produce and pasture-based meat that was intended for the meal be destroyed with bleach...
read moreVideo: Connolly’s Farmers Market In Sedona
Connolly's Farmers Market - The doors open Saturday, September 25th. If you have fruit and veggies that you would like to make available to the larger community, contact Bruce Connolly at 928-300-6586. And help spread the word...
read moreNews: Sign This Pledge: Be More Humane To Hens; Help End Factory Farming
One of the easiest ways you can help farm animals and reduce your risk of Salmonella is simply to avoid eating eggs from hens crammed into cages. With less space than a sheet of paper on which to spend her life, each one of the nearly 280 million caged hens in this country can’t even spread her wings. While more than half a billion eggs have recently been recalled in the U.S. due to Salmonella concerns, it’s important to remember that the egg industry’s cruel confinement of hens in tiny cages is not only inhumane, but increases...
read moreNews: Filthy Conditions At Egg Farms Driving Cage-Free Movement
FILTHY CONDITIONS AT EGG FARMS DRIVING CAGE-FREE MOVEMENT By Lisa Wade McCormick ConsumerAffairs.Com September 1, 2010 Original Link Recent findings of piles of manure, rodents, and other unsanitary conditions on the Iowa farms linked to the massive salmonella-tainted egg recall are “disgusting,” but not surprising to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The conditions on farms owned by Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms Inc. mirror those found on four other Iowa egg producing farms during a Humane Society investigation...
read moreVideo: Supermarket Secrets
How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenized, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialise in? In this two-part programme, UK TV Channel4 journalist Jane Moore investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on our plates and reveals the tell-tale signs that the food we buy may not have been grown in the way we think. Using a combination of undercover filming and scientific analysis, Supermarket Secrets...
read moreVideo: Path to Freedom – Urban Homestead
Founded by Jules Dervaes (Dur-VAYS) in 2001, Path to Freedom is a grassroots, family operated, viable urban homesteading project established to promote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle and reduce one family’s “footprint” on the earth’s dwindling resources. Since the mid 1980s, all five members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena, California, into an organic permaculture garden supplying them with food all year round. They also run a successful business,...
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