Subway revises their antibiotic statement

Subway heard from agriculture. And I was one of them. I went to my local Subway restaurant on Thursday and spoke to the two managers on duty. I think I shocked them a little bit as neither one of them had heard about Subway’s announcement  last Tuesday of sourcing meat never given an antibiotic starting in […]

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Healthy animals = safer food = happy people

A task force for the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) have looked at the pressures to change livestock rearing methods, evidence to support the direct public health impact on human illness days, and food safety and inspection service regulations. They (and you and I) know that many groups in society, including politicians, activists, […]

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HSUS: Lawyers in Cages

In a follow-up to my blog yesterday about the current undertakings of animal rights groups like HSUS and WSPA, the HumaneWatch blog has put together a great parody video to HSUS’s multimillion-dollar ad campaign. You know: sad, slow music with a spokeswoman and terrible, heart-wrenching pictures of sad-looking dogs and cats, and for only $19.95 […]

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Producing enough sustainable food

Ahhh. Sustainable. A word that is so overused, yet so important to agriculture. And also to consumers who want to use it as much as possible when it comes to their food. And we’re taking food. Everyone wants it. Everyone needs it. This YouTube video came out yesterday and it does pretty darn good job […]

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