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Honestly. Sometimes I just want to watch House Hunters on HGTV and not worry about the demise of critical thinking in this world. But no, invariably something happens to mess up the best of plans. Like this USA Today opinion piece that was posted last night: “Know how that chicken got to your table? Our […] Read more…
I’m kicking the new year off with some good news! Remember when I wrote about how the egg industry and egg farmers made such great improvements in its environmental impact? (You can read that post here.) I found out that many other aspects of agriculture are doing the same! For example, pig farms are producing […] Read more…
Panera Bread Company certainly got an earful this week! A dairy farmer/blogger – Dairy Carrie – wrote this post lambasting the company for its ridiculously misleading advertising campaign that essentially called livestock and poultry farmers who use antibiotics “lazy.” Misleading. And offensive to farmers everywhere. I know many farmers and I can say for certain […] Read more…
As I have written before, I work for several poultry organizations – specifically, the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association and its sister organization the Minnesota Turkey Research and Promotion Council; the Chicken and Egg Association of Minnesota; and the Midwest Poultry Federation. Poultry Central. Right here in Minnesota! I wear many hats for these organizations, including […] Read more…
If you want to see quiet little me get amped up, just start talking about all those horrible hormones and steroids that are fed to turkeys and chickens to make them grow so big and fat that they can’t stand up, much less walk around. That must be why turkeys have such big breasts right? […] Read more…