Saturday, October 29, 2011

In the news...

I thought I'd post the links to some recent stories about farming, agriculture, and animals in the news:

Here is a story on Polyface Farm's entree into Freedom Ranger broilers, which is the variety we're currently raising at Ecotone.

Here is a NYT editorial from early this week about how to fund small businesses in the recession.

Here is a Freakonomics blog post on the role of "localvore" economics and food safety.  

Here is a NPR Marketplace story on Niman Ranch and the economics of sustainable farming.

Here is an Opinionator blog post by Vanderbilt philosophy professor Kelly Oliver on animals and pets.

3 comments:

  1. The Freakonomics article was horrible - those guys don't seem to know much about farming.

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  2. I totally agree. But I thought I'd put it up there for others to see for themselves. "We report, You decide," etc.!

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  3. Did you see Bittman's article in the NYT about whether local food was elitist?

    http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/local-food-no-elitist-plot/?scp=5&sq=bittman&st=cse

    Followed up by:
    http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/eat-local-a-clarification/?scp=2&sq=bittman&st=cse

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