Chelsea Green (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Could the Founding Fathers have envisioned a day when it was illegal for a man to milk his own cows and sell the milk to his neighbors? It probably never even crossed their minds. Author Joel Salatin, the “Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatic farmer” who appeared in the documentary Food, Inc. and was profiled in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma,...
Chelsea Green (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
How do we go about curbing one of the most egregious sources of greenhouse gases (namely methane) to foul our atmosphere? A lot of farmers will disagree with me, but the first thing we must do is eat less meat. As a society, we must make the decision to greatly reduce our consumption of animals [...]
La Vida Locavore - Front Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bad food sparked a prison riot . Check out this new interview with Joel Salatin . Ugh. A former farm bureau president defends the Siddiqui nomination . Siddiqui's a biotech/pesticide lobbyist who Obama nominated to be the U.S. chief ag negotiator. No shock here. As many as 25% of farmers who grow Bt corn are breaking the rules that are intended to avoid insects developing resistance...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... that are used to give us food. I can’t help but think of the comparison of Food, Inc . hero Joel Salatin to the characters in Hatari! . In Food, Inc . almost all of the farmers featured keep their animals in horrible conditions and treat them very badly, Salatin on the other hand treats his animals with love, letting them roam and eat good food. Salatin of course...
State Journal Featured Content (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- A trendsetting organic farmer from Virginia will speak Nov. 6 on the campus of Shepherd University in a presentation sandwiched between showings of two independent documentaries on what we eat, "Food Inc." and "Fresh: The Movie." The talk by Joel Salatin, whose innovations at a 550-acre farm in Swoope, Va., are discussed prominently in both films, is free to the public....
The Baltimore Business Journal (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... in the development of the file transfer protocol software language for computer networking.Joel Salatin, a Virginia farmer well known in the sustainable agriculture movement, described how his work raising livestock with cutting-edge techniques led him to become the primary egg supplier for dozens of restaurants wanting to serve food made with locally grown products.The free conference’s...
