The Sixth Great Lake
Ogallala is a city in Nebraska and the name of the largest aquifer in the United States; although it stretches down into Texas, two-thirds of it sits under the state
03/20/15
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Category: Feedlots
Animals Are What They Eat
Animals raised in factory farms eat diets designed to fatten them quickly and inexpensively. Factory meat at the supermarket costs half what it did in the 1960s and now Americans
02/28/15
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Meat Testing
The synthetic hormones approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the 1950s for use in factory cattle and sheep – banned in Europe since 1988 – increase
02/05/15
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Mad Cows
I told you about Hedgeapple Farm one time but I finally got back out there today and took a couple of pictures for you. We were talking with the cattle
01/17/15
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Overcooking Meat
My favorite way of having pork chops is breaded and baked because that’s how my Grandma made them, although I rarely cook pork. Today I was trying to use up
12/07/14
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Turkeys
One good thing about factory turkeys is the rock bottom price – they were $1.19/lb at Safeway and I’m sure you can get them cheaper. That’s because as many as
11/26/14
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Family Meatballs and Drones
A couple of days ago I mentioned a woman I met at the airport who was complaining about the price of (factory) ground beef. By now I imagine just about
11/08/14
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Feed Corn
Today I’ll talk more about feed corn and then tomorrow make something yummy with non-genetically modified sweet corn. Sweet corn is the corn that you buy at produce stands and
10/11/14
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Breaded Pork Chops with Chard
This makes a really colorful meal, especially when you use the rainbow chard. If you can buy meat from farmers that only pasture their animals in grass, then the meat
06/30/14
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Beef Recall – Mad Cow
I was perusing the news and saw an article in Tech Times about a beef recall last week with possible links to mad cow disease. I was afraid that was
06/17/14
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