Pamela Anderson is on a postage stamp. But it’s not for what you think. According to Drovers, back in September, the U.S. Postal Service announced that living people would now be eligible to be featured on stamps. The Postmaster General said, “This change will enable us to pay tribute to individuals for their achievements while […]
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Meat causes Cancer? I think not.
We’ve all heard this. Don’t drink diet sodas – it causes cancer. Don’t eat processed foods – it causes cancer. Don’t eat MEAT – it causes cancer. The sad reality is…we don’t know what all cancers are derived from. I found this great blog post from Food, Think! with some great research background with seven […]
Celebrate Food Day – Every Day
The Animal Agriculture Alliance has a great resource to talk about the upcoming Food Day: www.realfarmersrealfood.com. The organizers of Food Day, (read more about them and who is involved here), have six initiatives to pursuade people into what they believe the right methods are to achieve a healthy lifestyle. Real Farmers, Real Food has five […]
The REAL Food Day | A video blog
My comments about Food Day via a video blog. For more info, go check out CommonGround Nebraska’s blog about The REAL Food Day.
Food follow-up
There has been a lot of follow-up and discussions about last week’s Food Dialogues in conjunction with the Town Hall style-meetings that the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance hosted. Findings of two national surveys about food and how it is grown and raised were released during these dialogues. The surveys focused separately on the opinions, […]
Because it’s Friday…
…I have to share my new favorite obsession. Wordle. Or Pinterest, but today it’s Wordle. Wordle basically creates a pile of words, and you can direct your blog feed to it (or copy and paste a bunch of words) to create your Wordle with the most common words of that blog. Here is my Ag […]
When did agriculture become a dirty word?
For the first time in history – agriculture has come together and formed the United State Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) to start the conversation and answer Americans’ questions about how food. But when did agriculture become such a dirty word to consumers, the media, ourselves?? Farmers & ranchers want everyone to know how food […]
Distillers Grains Plants
Ethanol plants should have originally been called distillers grains plants producing a by-product of ethanol. Distillers grains {in any form – dried, wet, modified} often gets forgotten about in a lot of discussions about ethanol. Recently, the House Agriculture Committee’s subcommittee on livestock, dairy and poultry, had a hearing to examine the issue of feed […]
Top 20 #agblogs
I feel honored this week that Ag on the Forefront was included in the seametrics.com Top 20 Agriculture Blogs. I don’t share this for my own benefit – but for your benefit because there are 19 more awesome #agblogs to check out!I now have them all saved to my Google Reader. 🙂Thanks again Charles and […]
Donate your car to charity – not HSUS
There are several car donation programs across the U.S. In an email I received today, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is asking for your car donation. Their One Car One Difference program they quote, “…you’ll help support our community-based programs to steer at-risk youth away from dogfighting.” It’s funny how the wording […]
