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ALN No. 46: Lancaster: The man who farms water: May 19, 9:38pm 1 review farming, rain-water
http://www.ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln46/lancaster; From the page: ""Having to support a family of eight, Mr. Phiri turned to the only two things he had, a three hectare family landholding and the Bible. He didn't use the Bible only for spiritual guidance or inspiration, he also used it as a gardening manual. Reading Genesis, he saw that everything Adam and Eve needed was provided by the Garden of Eden. 'So,' thought Mr. Phiri, 'I must create my own Garden of Eden.' Yet he also realized that Adam and Eve had the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in their region, while he didn't have even an ephemeral creek. 'So,' he thought, 'I must also create my own rivers.' He has done both.""

Explaining the Beef Recall | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com: Feb 21, 9:29am 1 review cooking, farming, meat, humane
http://www.newsweek.com/id/113695; This is clearly not an isolated case. As long as consumers don't know the truth and care only about getting the cheapest meat, it will happen again and again. From the page: "Michael Pollan doesn't blame workers at the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company for the conditions that led to the nation's largest beef recall in history this past weekend. Instead, the author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma: Searching for the Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World" aims his criticism at the mass-production system of slaughter, which produces mistakes along with millions of pounds of beef."

USDA orders nations largest beef recall - Yahoo! News: Feb 17, 9:04pm 2 reviews food, farming, meat
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080218/ap_on_bi_ge/slaughterhouse_abuse; From the page: "The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs." What the heck are they going to do with the recalled beef? The meat industry in general (from farming to slaughtering) is so shameful. Why don't we care more as consumers? How do we find out more?

The New York Times & Log In: Feb 14, 2:11pm 1 review agriculture, farming, gmo
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/business/worldbusiness/14biotech.html?_r=1&...; From the page: "Genetically engineered agriculture is spreading worldwide, and its biggest growth in 2007 was in the developing world, according to a report released Wednesday."

Dead Waters: Science News Online, June 5, 2004: Feb 10, 8:31pm 1 review environment, ocean, farming, fertilizer
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040605/bob9.asp; I've always known about the dead zone, but did not know how large it is. "Summer tourists cruising the waters off Louisiana or Texas in the Gulf of Mexico take in gorgeous vistas as they pull in red snappers and blue marlins. Few realize that the lower half of the water column below them may lack fish, despite the piscine bounty near the surface. For many years now, an annual dead zone has developed in the Gulf, beginning as early as February and sometimes lasting until mid-fall. This zone--water where the oxygen content is so low that denizens can't survive--tends to leave no surface clue."

GREEN BEAN DREAMS: Monoculture: Feb 8, 12:11am 1 review shopping, life, farming
http://greenbeandreams.blogspot.com/2008/02/monoculture.html; Monoculture: "the practice of producing or growing one single crop over a wide area." Take a couple of steps further - are Starbucks and Wal-mart a part of the monoculture?

Video of workers abusing cows raises food safety questions - CNN.com: Feb 5, 1:29pm 2 reviews nutrition, animal, farming
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/30/undercover.slaughter.video/index.html; I don't even know what to say. Why are some of us even labeled as humans? This is sickening.

ENN: Whole Foods CEO lays out the Future of Food: Jan 21, 11:34pm 1 review animals, cooking, environment, farming
http://www.enn.com/business/article/29666; All about organic food, local food, ethically traded food, animal welfare. Worth reading!

Wendell Berry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Jan 20, 8:46pm 4 reviews environment, poetry, farming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry; His work is worth reading. From the page: "His nonfiction serves as an extended conversation about the life he values. According to Berry, the good life includes sustainable agriculture, appropriate technologies, healthy rural communities, connection to place, the pleasures of good food, husbandry, good work, local economics, the miracle of life, fidelity, frugality, reverence, and the interconnectedness of life. The threats Berry finds to this good life include: industrial farming and the industrialization of life, ignorance, hubris, greed, violence against others and against the natural world, the eroding topsoil in the United States, global economics, and environmental destruction."

Intensive farming is a solution, not the problem & Musings from a Stonehead: Jan 17, 10:37pm 1 review ecology, farming
http://stonehead.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/intensive-farming-is-a-solution-not...; From the page: "It all sounds so simple, clearcut and animal friendly when presented by a television celebrity who wears his heart on his sleeve. Poor little chickens are suffering in nasty, confined sheds on intensive farms so we'll get a law passed to force uncaring British farmers to open the doors and let their chickens run free. Then we can relax and feel good because our little feathered friends are happily pecking about in the great outdoors. What a load of tosh, nonsense, rubbish and piffle."