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Me and My Planet: 10/01/2013 - 11/01/2013
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Me and My Planet. Watershed Media's Online Journal. Friday, October 11, 2013. Indoctrinating the Youth: National Pork Board Spins Yarns About Modern Meat Production. A few months ago I stumbled upon a curious attempt at social engineering. A website link led me to a children’s coloring book titled “Producers, Pigs and Pork.” Available both as a downloadable PDF or printed booklet, it invites kids to color in the pictures and “learn more about pigs.”. In the real world of modern factory farming, the stenc...
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Me and My Planet: 06/01/2013 - 07/01/2013
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Me and My Planet. Watershed Media's Online Journal. Tuesday, June 04, 2013. Message to Congress: Stop Monkeying Around with Conservation Budgets. When most Americans think of the agencies in charge of nature conservation, the Department of the Interior or the National Park Service likely spring to mind. They don’t think of the Department of Agriculture, which allocates nearly $4 billion per year to land conservation in its Farm Bill. Of all agriculturally-related federal spending, conservation programs c...
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Me and My Planet: The Farm Bill is Really A Food Bill
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Me and My Planet. Watershed Media's Online Journal. Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The Farm Bill is Really A Food Bill. 8220;People don’t aspire to enroll in the SNAP Program,” says Stacey Dean, of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. “By far, the SNAP Program serves people who, because of the stress and hardship of poverty, face a genuine lack of access to healthy and affordable foods.”. 1 Food stamps are part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Bill. The maximum monthly allotment—$20...
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Me and My Planet: 10/01/2012 - 11/01/2012
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Me and My Planet. Watershed Media's Online Journal. Thursday, October 11, 2012. Vote Yes on Prop 37 by Daniel Imhoff and Michael Dimock. In America we hold a consumer’s power of choice at the checkout line nearly as sacred as that of a voter at the ballot box. This November, California voters will be asked to protect the right of food buyers to make informed purchases. Vote Yes on Prop 37. Another concern is the skyrocketing price of seed for farmers. According to the USDA’s Economic Research S...Finally...
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Me and My Planet: Vote Yes on Prop 37 by Daniel Imhoff and Michael Dimock
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Me and My Planet. Watershed Media's Online Journal. Thursday, October 11, 2012. Vote Yes on Prop 37 by Daniel Imhoff and Michael Dimock. In America we hold a consumer’s power of choice at the checkout line nearly as sacred as that of a voter at the ballot box. This November, California voters will be asked to protect the right of food buyers to make informed purchases. Vote Yes on Prop 37. Another concern is the skyrocketing price of seed for farmers. According to the USDA’s Economic Research S...Finally...
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Me and My Planet: Message to Congress: Stop Monkeying Around with Conservation Budgets
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Me and My Planet. Watershed Media's Online Journal. Tuesday, June 04, 2013. Message to Congress: Stop Monkeying Around with Conservation Budgets. When most Americans think of the agencies in charge of nature conservation, the Department of the Interior or the National Park Service likely spring to mind. They don’t think of the Department of Agriculture, which allocates nearly $4 billion per year to land conservation in its Farm Bill. Of all agriculturally-related federal spending, conservation programs c...
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Farming with the Wild. Food and Farm Policy. 8212; Main Menu —. Farming with the Wild. Food and Farm Policy. Farm Bills Make Me Crazy. HOW YOU CAN HELP. To print a complete list of actions you can take in your everyday life. Learn about the Farm Bill. This will require cracking the code of Farm Bill lingo. The USDA has a lot of useful information, including the full text of the bill itself and specialized reports. Take the long view. Change rarely happens over the span of just one Farm Bill. Lear...
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Me and My Planet: PINK SLIME by Becky Weed
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Me and My Planet. Watershed Media's Online Journal. Tuesday, April 10, 2012. PINK SLIME by Becky Weed. I am a farmer/I am a citizen, and this is what ‘we’ are being told:. We must raise or at least finish our animals in cages and feedlots because it is ‘more efficient’. Even our animals that start on pasture must end in feedlots, because they ‘finish more quickly’. Because that ‘enhances growth rates’. We cannot quit subtherapeutic feeding of antibiotics because it would be too expensive. We must burn up...
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Me and My Planet: 04/01/2012 - 05/01/2012
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Me and My Planet. Watershed Media's Online Journal. Tuesday, April 10, 2012. PINK SLIME by Becky Weed. I am a farmer/I am a citizen, and this is what ‘we’ are being told:. We must raise or at least finish our animals in cages and feedlots because it is ‘more efficient’. Even our animals that start on pasture must end in feedlots, because they ‘finish more quickly’. Because that ‘enhances growth rates’. We cannot quit subtherapeutic feeding of antibiotics because it would be too expensive. We must burn up...
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Me and My Planet: Hermannsdorf: Symbiotic Farming
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Me and My Planet. Watershed Media's Online Journal. Monday, March 18, 2013. In a processing kitchen we find large mixing machines for making sausages. Each stainless steel bowl could easily hold a person. Two ovens are presently occupied in the smoke curing of pork bellies. We see Karl-Ludwig’s guidance everywhere. The organizing principle, from start to finish is quality: for animals, workers, the environment, and eaters. A day’s visit is not enough. We need more time to explore. I have do...Dan Imhoff'...
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