Food Politics
You know it’s a beautiful day in America when you get to read another misleading article about food safety and agriculture practices. And this week, Consumer Reports has more than delivered. Bar the doors, burn the Christmas ham, and don’t you dare think about eating that bacon with your pancakes. The apocalypse is nigh! Much [...]
I love October. It is, if nothing else, the month during which the fields begin to bustle. And yesterday, almost as if by clockwork, they did just that. For miles around the soybean fields are empty now, bare stuble the color of new cornsilk left in the place of the green, bushy plants of summer. [...]
Last week McDonald’s officially announced their timeline for phasing out pork from hog operations that employ gestation crates in production. First, give me two big hurrahs for the free market doing what the free market is supposed to do. Give me a third for keeping regulation out of this. That’s our one step forward. Now, [...]
I’m about to share with you an inconvenient truth: Only you can change the way livestock are reared on commercial farms in the United States. I said it when everyone was in an uproar about routine antibiotic use a few weeks ago and I’ll say it again. American consumers may like the idea of ridding [...]
This girl brings bacon into the world. 
