Well the slam on modern agriculture wasn’t as bad as I expected from Oprah’s show today featuring Michael Pollan, Kathy Freston and Nicole Johnson-Hoffman, Manager of Cargill’s Fort Morgan Plant. First, I think it is great that Cargill opened their slaughterhouse doors to allow viewers to see how the beef animals are processed. They showed the […]
Animal agriculture & misconceptions on Oprah today
Since most of us are snowed/iced-in today, let’s practice our true agvocacy and respond to Oprah Winfrey’s show on animal agriculture, CAFO’s and veganism today. Oprah is scheduled to air a show titled “Food 201” at 3 p.m. CST, where she and 378 staffers go vegan for a “one-week challenge”. The show will center on […]
HSUS & Coyotes: The New Humane Action
I was recently signed up on the Humane Society of the United States listserv because I RSVP’d for their town hall meeting recently in Lincoln. Not a problem as I enjoy getting updated on what they are doing and how they lying to their constituents about how they help animals. I especially enjoyed the email I recieved […]
Newly funded K-State animal-feed research facility
Way to go Cargill and K-State! Looks like an awesome opportunity for research. Cargill helps fund K-State animal-feed research facility – from MeatingPlace.com Cargill’s $500,000 grant to Kansas State University will help the school build a first-of-its-kind research facility to study food and feed safety issues facing the animal feed industry, the company announced Tuesday. The […]
2011 Food Trends
Food is trendy, no doubt about it. The hot topics in food this year can be confusing to consumers who don’t know how their food is raised. The Food Channel has put together their list of top 10 food trends for the upcoming year: Canning is cool. Canning, pickling and preserving are in. Men in […]
Pacelle’s new book: defending dogs or hogs?
Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS – NOT your local animal shelter, btw) has written a new book scheduled to come out this spring called, The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them. His description of the book “examines our contradictory attitudes towards animals […]
Why does the HSUS hate agriculture and what can be done?
**I wrote this post for the Nebraska Corn Kernels blog, but wanted to share here as well. Martosko is a great advocate for animal agriculture and knows his stuff about HSUS!** The 6th Annual Nebraska Ag Classic was held in Kearney this week to help understand the growing challenges the agriculture industry is facing. The main discussion […]
My favorite #foodthanks quotes
A lot of folks have been blogging about Thanksgiving and thanking farmers and agriculture for the food we eat every day. The AgChat Foundation has established foodthanks.com and encourages tweeters to use the hashtag #foodthanks I have compiled a list of my favorite quotes about food from these blogs “Food doesn’t just happen. It takes an incredible […]
HSUS in Nebraska? HumaneWatch.org is!
This coming Sunday, the Humane Society of the United States is holding a Town Hall meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska. They have recently hired a director for Nebraska (housed in Omaha) and Wayne Pacelle himself is coming for this meeting to discuss issues surrounding animals in Nebraska. No doubt, this won’t only be about pets, but […]
Use National Animal Shelter Week to educate about what HSUS really is
This week, November 7-13, 2010, is National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week, which was launched by HSUS in 1996 as a way to acknowledge and promote the invaluable role shelters play in their communities and to increase public awareness of animal welfare issues and shelter services. The HSUS is using this week to promote and celebrate […]
