Two images symbolize for me what we should be thankful for today.

In his famous lecture "An Inconvenient Truth," Former Vice President Al Gore uses the image of NASA’s Earthrise to remind us that we are just a pale blue dot swimming in an ocean of black and uncaring space. It’s a vivid reminder that […]

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An op/ed by Texas A&M professor James E. McWilliams in the New York Times says that at least some of our problem with melamine in food comes from industrial ag practices. He writes that fertilizer companies “commonly add melamine to their products because it helps control the rate at which nitrogen seeps into soil, thereby […]

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Photo by Wendy Holm

This Cuban dairy cow is standing in front of a pasture dotted with “los pedestales,” rows of tent-like wire structures with protein-rich legumes growing inside. The five-foot-tall hedges of Glycenia supplement the cows’ traditional diet of grass which results in higher milk production.
There is growing interest in the United States in grazing […]

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The Center for Food Safety urges a moratorium on selling crops produced from GMO (genetically modified organisms) seed because a new study from Austria shows a possible link to infertility in mice. Research conducted by Dr. Jürgen Zentek, Professor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Vienna, showed that mice fed GMO corn raised from […]

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Hail to the chef

As President-Elect Barack Obama assembles his new team, let’s hope superstar chef Gordon Ramsay makes the shortlist to head USDA.
Ramsay’s show Kitchen Nightmares began on the BBC years ago. Fortunately for our in-coming president, the bombastic Scot has moved to Fox in time to lend his formidable culinary and management skills to […]

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Congratulations to the 63% of Californians who passed Proposition 2, which offers the simple guarantee that all farm animals must be given enough space to stand up, stretch their limbs, turn around and lie down comfortably.  With that simple statement, Californians for Humane Farms, a coalition supported by Farm Sanctuary, succeeded in ending three of […]

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