December 24, 2003

• Normally I wouldn't like something like this-- too heavy-handed and, oh god, the voice acting-- but it's remarkably clever.
• 'Big meat,' big trouble: Corporate farming is wrecking the land -- and us -- says Ken Midkiff
• The Great Neurotic Art
• The true cost of meat
• Via stalbach, Eat Wild: the clearinghouse for information about pasture-based farming.
• Rocket fuel found in milk in California Your Body, Your Superfund Site
• Sit down, homunky, and I'll get you a nice Angus. And I don't just say that to all the boys...
• Blech! Can I have a bison burger instead?
• Eat bison. ...it contains more iron... Then use leeches for that bloated, high-iron feeling.
• Meat-eaters soak up the world's water
• Meat-eaters soak up the world's water I'm going to assume that in this case you mean fresh water. Because there's plenty of the other stuff.
• Spongebob Squarepants is on the Angus Diet! Has our entire culture come to this? Of course it has, that's a rhetorical question, just leave me alone, it's $1 McNuggets day.
• Excuse the jokiness and carnivorousness, homunkey, but you must realize that my blog is the #1 Google Search Result for "I'll Be Here All Week, Try the Veal!"
• Excuse the carnivorousness Hay, don't get me wrong, I'm not a vegetarian. It's the meat industry I don't like. Now give me my bison burger.
• Biomimicry, Smart Breeding and Prairie-Like Farms
• BodyBurden: the pollution in people.
• Trade secrets Bill Moyers' test results
• Ah, the perils of liking dead animal flesh...
• High on the mountains Tell me what you see Bear tracks bear tracks Lookin' back at me -- "Ole Slewfoot", as sung by Jonnny Horton
• The Meatrix II: Revolting
• Fossil Fuel For Breakfast
• sweet... another meatrix! good finds, homunculus, as always.
• Vegetarian is the New Prius
• As the bacterial outbreaks in Pennsylvania and California show, the USDA's food-safety division has trouble tracking down the slaughterhouses that produce tainted meat.
• Bleah - who wants to eat meat anyw- Oh. Right.
• The Pig Farmer
• Part of his frustration, it seemed, was that even though he didn’t like doing some of the things he did to the animals—cooping them up in such small cages, using so many drugs, taking the babies away from their mothers so quickly after their births—he didn’t see that he had any choice. He would be at a disadvantage and unable to compete economically if he didn’t do things that way. I'm glad the story ends well (for the pig guy) but I'm tired of jobs and economy always being used as an excuse for horrible conditions like that. Soylent Pork is pigple!
• Do you KNOW what organically "free range" meat sells for??? The guy's an idiot for not cashing into the yuppy health market. *Disclaimer: I am not a yuppy, nor do I portray one on television, but I buy my "free range" beef from a local guy that doesn't feed antibiotics and hormone crap. Pay market price when slaughtered, and the slaughter fees. Still comes out cheaper than store bought. Can't find pork here, and wouldn't/couldn't pay outrageous prices for my chops, but know plenty of people who would.
• organically grown, ok, shoot me
• Quite a few of the family farm we work with have gone that way in recent years, and they indeed do very well. BEcause they limit their scope to what they can gandle, they're able to lavish lots of attention on what they DO raise. And agritourism really is growing. We've had two more farm education centers open up here in upstate New York over the past year, one of them specializing in historical farming methods.
• Britain's Environment Agency: Go Vegetarian to Stop Climate Change
• Farm bill: Beware the industrial-meat complex
• Outbreak of Mysterious Pig Brain Disease at Slaughterhouse Mystifies Investigators
• Don't have a (downer) cow, man: Despite biggest meat recall ever, 37 million pounds of suspect meat made it to schools.
• The Meat Industry Now Consumes Four-Fifths of All Antibiotics
• Cancer risk higher among people who eat more processed meat, study finds: Biggest consumers of food such as ham, bacon and sausages are 44% more likely to die prematurely, according to research
• Criminalizing Documentation of Animal Abuse All the Rage These Days
• Open the Slaughterhouses
• More Than Half Of U.S. Meat Contains Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
• Industrial Slaughter, Antibiotic Use and Unhealthy Meat: Ted Conover in Harper’s
• Ag-Gag Laws Could Make America Sick