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Deputies, inspectors make early morning visit to raw milk supplier
Early this morning as the Hershberger family was eating breakfast, officers with the Sauk County Sheriff's Department and state inspectors paid a visit to the known raw-milk supplier's property. Erma Hershberger said several of her nine children were in the farm's store, with the door locked, when officials attempted to serve her and her husband, Vernon, with a warrant to search the property. The children did not open the door, Erma said by phone Thursday morning. "This is pretty traumatic for our family," Erma said. "We hope this will end soon .. » read more
Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres
FAST FACTS: Small dots appear to "burn" through leaves Area affected is along Tipton and Shelby County line Farmers afraid they may lose their entire crop (Memphis 6/1/2010) A mystery is unfolding across MidSouth farms. Something is killing crops, trees, even weeds and nobody can explain why. Farmers are scratching their heads and some are worried their crops may be lost to the mysterious plague. It's happening along a large swath of land near the Shelby and Tipton county border along Herring Hill Road and elsewhere near the Mississippi River bottoms. Tiny dots appear to have burned onto leaves of all types of plants, and they appear different depending on the plant.. » read more
OBESITY CONSPIRACY: The U.S. Government Scandal that's Really Making You Fat
A decade ago, an American woman's waist, on average, was close to two inches smaller than it is today. Eighteen year olds are 15 pounds heavier than they were in the 1970s. One reason is federal subsidies for food production. Take a look at these numbers: Meat/Dairy -- 73.8 percent Grains -- 13.. » read more
UDDERLY RIDICULOUS Feds invade farm for 5 a.m. inspection
Serve warrant on farmer up to milk cows Federal agents invaded an Amish farm in Pennsylvania at 5 a.m. to inspect cow-milking facilities then followed up the next day with a written notice that the farmer was engaged in interstate sale of raw milk in violation of the Public Health Services Act. A failure to correct the situation could result in "seizure and/or injunction," the warning letter from Kirk Sooter, district director of the Philadelphia office of the Department of Health and Human Services, told farmer Dan Allgyer of Kinzers, Pa., on Wednesday.. » read more
U.S. standards on beef are lax, inspector general says
Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. government is not fully guarding against the contamination of meat by traces of antibiotics, pesticides or heavy metals, a new report warns. The U.S.. » read more
The Ominous Beef Cover Up: The Hidden Truth Behind the Meat on Your Plate (with video)
Of all the animals that humans eat, none are held more responsible for climate change than cows. Cows not only consume more energy-intensive feed than other livestock, they also produce more methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. But grass-fed cows may have the opposite effect. Grass is a perennial. If cattle and other ruminants are rotated across pastures full of it, the animals' grazing will cut the blades, spurring new growth, while their trampling helps work manure and other decaying organic matter into the soil, turning it into rich humus.. » read more
Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation
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USDA And Department of Justice Announce Historic Settlement In Lawsuit By Black Farmers Claiming Discrimination By USDA
WASHINGTON, February 18, 2010 - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the successful resolution of the longstanding litigation known as Pigford II. The settlement agreement reached today, which is contingent on appropriation by Congress, will provide a total of $1.25 billion to African American farmers who alleged that they suffered racial discrimination in USDA farm loan programs.. » read more
Wild Fish Stocks Depleted by Feeding of Farmed Fish Like Salmon
(NaturalNews) Rather than relieving pressure on wild fish stocks, the explosive growth of aquaculture has actually exacerbated this pressure, according to an international study led by Rosamond L. Naylor of Stanford University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers surveyed trends in the farming of several different fish species, finding that by the end of 2009, half of all fish consumed in the world will have been raised on an aquaculture farm. This has led to a concurrent increase in demand for wild-caught fish meal and fish oil to feed these fish, including for vegetarian species such as tilapia and carp. "Our assumption about farmed tilapia and carp being environmentally friendly turns out to be wrong in aggregate, because the sheer volume is driving up the demand," Naylor said.. » read more
One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show
New analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies Jan. 22, 2010 One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies. The 2009 figures from the US Department of Agriculture shows ethanol production rising to record levels driven by farm subsidies and laws which require vehicles to use increasing amounts of biofuels. "The grain grown to produce fuel in the US [in 2009] was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels," said Lester Brown, the director of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington thinktank ithat conducted the analysis. A grain elevator in Illinois.. » read more
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