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  • America’s Family-Owned Farms Are Closing. Brooke Ence Is Creating a ‘Parallel’ Food Economy to Change That.

    10/10/2024 9:34:08 AM PDT · by george76 · 49 replies
    Daily Signal ^ | October 10, 2024 | Crystal Bonham
    The vast majority of America’s meat supply comes from four major companies, leaving little room in the market for smaller farms to compete. JBS Foods, National Beef Packing Co., Tyson Foods, and Cargill combined hold 85% of the market, leading to the closing of thousands of family farms. “Any time something is consolidated … you’re going to deal with more issues, like cleanliness, with health issues for animals, because now you’re cramming them into smaller spaces. You’re just worrying about quantity over quality,” says Brooke Ence, co-founder of From The Farm. Growing up in a family of farmers and ranchers,...
  • NPR blames men who eat beef for climate change....."If you want to reduce emissions, it's all about beef."

    09/29/2024 12:49:08 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 161 replies
    Post Millennial ^ | September 29, 2024 | David Krayden
    National Public Radio knows who is driving climate change as an existential threat: men who eat meat. And they found the origins of the current crisis in a 2006 television ad for Burger KIng that heralded the fast food chain and its appetite-satisfying whopper as a source of masculine culinary delight totally unlike the small portions of vegetarian food offered by places where women like to frequent. That ad began running when Malcolm Regisford, whom NPR interviewed for the story, was 10 years old, Regisford saw this commercial often in between his cartoons. “Beef is marketed to men — steaks...
  • ‘What’s going on is a calamity:’ Ranchers, lawmakers question Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s recent decisions on wolves

    09/27/2024 5:56:22 PM PDT · by george76 · 12 replies
    Post Independent’ ^ | Sep 27, 2024 | Ali Longwell
    Decisions made contrary to the wolf plan and comments from the First Gentleman raise concerns.. Colorado ranchers and lawmakers have questioned how Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are making decisions about wolves since the animals were introduced to the state starting in December. Concerns have peaked in recent months, however, as wildlife officials have gone outside of recommendations in the Wolf Restoration and Management Plan, and have raised questions about whether Gov. Jared Polis is calling the shots on wolves. Sen. Dylan Roberts — who represents Senate District 8, which has been the epicenter of Colorado’s reintroduction efforts — asked...
  • Climate Change Authority calls on Australians to cut back on red meat to reduce emissions

    09/06/2024 6:08:23 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 51 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | September 05, 2024 | Olivia Day For Daily Mail Australia
    Australians will need to cut back on red meat and ditch petrol cars for electric vehicles in order to reach net zero emissions by 2050, according to the government agency advising Anthony Albanese on the target. The Climate Change Authority has suggested a series of lifestyle changes to get Australia to net zero in a new report released on Wednesday. The Authority has suggested Aussies swap red meat like beef and lamb for more emission-friendly options like kangaroo, chicken and pork. The advice comes after the Climate Council found that agriculture was responsible for over half of Australia's methane emissions...
  • As California dam removal hits final stage, river flows freely for first time in a century

    09/01/2024 6:15:28 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 38 replies
    SF Gate ^ | August 31, 2024 | By Sam Mauhay-Moore
    The decades-long push led by tribal communities to remove four dams along the Klamath River reached another victory this week as crews began the project’s final stages, restoring historic water flows to the river for the first time in over a century. The fight to remove dams along the Klamath began over two decades ago, when poor water quality and river flows caused tens of thousands of the river’s fish, mostly Chinook salmon, to die in a massive fish kill in 2002. For thousands of years, Chinook salmon have been a fundamental source of physical, spiritual and economic sustenance to...
  • Outrage At Feds In Tactical Gear Indicting S.D. Ranchers Over 75-Year-Old Fenceline

    08/18/2024 5:04:14 AM PDT · by george76 · 86 replies
    Cowboy State Daily ^ | August 13, 2024 | Mark Heinz
    Ranchers across the U.S. have expressed outrage over the Forest Service prosecuting a South Dakota ranch couple for allegedly stealing public land. The feds, who showed up armed and in tactical gear, say a fence that’s been on the owners' land for 75 years crosses a boundary with federal grasslands. A South Dakota ranch couple is fighting federal indictments served to them by a U.S. Forest Service agent who allegedly showed up unannounced on their front steps — armed and in tactical gear. The agent was there to serve them with indictments in a modern-day range war between the ranchers...
  • Who Is Directing the War On Agriculture and Nutrition?

    08/10/2024 10:31:05 AM PDT · by lightman · 46 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 10 August A.D. 2024 | Paul Driessen
    Elite billionaire organizations and foundations, government agencies, and activist pressure groups are funding and coordinating a global war on modern agriculture, nutrition, and Earth’s poorest, hungriest people. Instead of helping more families get nutritious food, better healthcare, and higher living standards, they’re doing the opposite and harming biodiversity in the process. The World Economic Forum wants to reimagine, reinvent and transform the global food system, to eliminate greenhouse gases from food production. Central to its plan is alternatives to animal protein: meal worm potato chips, bug burgers instead of beef patties, and meat loaves and sausages made from lake flies,...
  • CDC to vaccinate livestock workers for seasonal flu in bird flu campaign

    07/31/2024 6:56:52 AM PDT · by george76 · 25 replies
    Fence Post ^ | Jul 30, 2024 | Jerry Hagstrom and Shah
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will spend $5 million to vaccinate livestock workers against the seasonal flu in an effort to prevent possible interaction with bird flu, officials said today, July 30. If someone gets both the H5N1 (highly pathogenic avian influenza) and seasonal flu, the result could be “an exchange of genetic material” that could do what scientists call “reassortment” and the development of a new influenza virus, said Nirav Shah, the principal deputy director at CDC. Shah spoke to reporters in a call organized by the Health and Human Services Department. The $5 million will go...
  • Paris Olympics Already Running Out Of Real Food After Trying To Push Plant-Based Foods On Athletes

    07/28/2024 9:18:30 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 35 replies
    Outkick ^ | July 26, 2024 | Mark Harris
    While a handful of events have already gotten underway at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Friday evening's Opening Ceremony will mark the official start of the Summer Games. The Games will take place over the next 16 days until August 11, yet somehow organizers are already running out of food for athletes in the Olympic Village. Whether it's transportation nightmares, inadequate beds for the most elite athletes on the planet, or general infrastructure issues, some things always go wrong during the Olympics. Running out of food before the Games are even officially underway is a new one, and we're not talking...
  • Food as You Know It Is About to Change

    07/28/2024 2:29:46 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 74 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 28, 2024 | David Wallace-Wells, Opinion Writer
    From the vantage of the American supermarket aisle, the modern food system looks like a kind of miracle. Everything has been carefully cultivated for taste and convenience — even those foods billed as organic or heirloom — and produce regarded as exotic luxuries just a few generations ago now seems more like staples, available on demand: avocados, mangoes, out-of-season blueberries imported from Uruguay.But the supermarket is also increasingly a diorama of the fragility of a system — disrupted in recent years by the pandemic, conflict and, increasingly, climate change. What comes next? Almost certainly, more disruptions and more hazards, enough...
  • Olympic Athletes Hit With Shortages, Horrible Woke Food as Green Movement Spreads

    07/27/2024 2:22:31 PM PDT · by george76 · 92 replies
    Western Journal ^ | July 27, 2024 | Jack Davis
    Food shortages have hit the Paris Olympics, with some athletes complaining that the menu has more woke on it than competition food.. “They are saying the Games are more sustainable and there is way more plant-based food but sometimes if you go at peak times it’s challenging to even get a piece of chicken ... British athletes are shunning the main dining hall. “Our athletes have decided they would rather go and eat in our performance lodge in Clichy, so we are having to get another chef to come over as the demand is far exceeding what we thought it...
  • Bill Gates Backs Startup That Makes Butter From Thin Air

    07/19/2024 2:55:39 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 71 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | July 19, 2024 | Nick Kampouris
    Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates recently backed a California-based startup called Savor that created a new type of butter made from air instead of cows. The developers of this innovative creation claim that their unique product tastes just like real butter. They also claim it comes with a significantly lower carbon footprint which is fundamentally important for the battle against climate change. One might wonder how anyone can make butter without milk. Savor claims its process involves using heat to combine carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen. By doing this, they say that they manage to create chains that mimic the...
  • John Deere ends support of ‘social or cultural awareness’ events, distances from inclusion efforts

    07/18/2024 2:54:50 PM PDT · by george76 · 28 replies
    AP ^ | July 17, 2024
    Farm equipment maker John Deere says it will no longer sponsor “social or cultural awareness” events, becoming the latest major U.S. company to distance itself from diversity and inclusion measures after being targeted by conservative backlash... John Deere also said it would audit all training materials “to ensure the absence of socially-motivated messages” in compliance with federal and local laws. It did not specify what those messages would include... John Deere added “the existence of diversity quotas and pronoun identification have never been and are not company policy.” But it noted that it would still continue to “track and advance”...
  • Kroger and Albertsons release list of stores to be divested under merger

    07/11/2024 4:31:30 PM PDT · by george76 · 24 replies
    Supermarket News Daily ^ | Jul 09, 2024 | Timothy Inklebarger
    Washington, Arizona, Colorado, California, and Oregon would see the biggest number of stores flipped to C&S.. Kroger and Albertsons have released a list of hundreds of stores that would be divested to C&S Wholesale Grocers if federal regulators approve its proposed $24.6 billion merger deal, and the states with the largest numbers include Washington, Arizona, and Colorado. Under the proposal, Kroger and Albertsons would divest stores in Washington (124), Arizona (101), Colorado (91), California (63), Oregon (62), Illinois (35), Texas (28), Nevada (16), and Alaska (18). Several states would see 10 or fewer stores divested, including: Idaho (10), New Mexico...
  • Nearly 1.8 million chickens will be culled in the latest bird flu outbreak at a Colorado poultry farm

    07/09/2024 6:25:03 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 32 replies
    Colorado Sun ^ | 7-9-24 | John Ingold
    Nearly 1.8 million chickens will be killed after bird flu was detected at an egg-laying operation in Weld County, a major resurgence on a commercial farm of the disease that has already seen more than 6 million birds culled. Gov. Jared Polis verbally declared a disaster declaration for the facility over the long holiday weekend. The move activates the state’s emergency operations plan and makes additional resources available to respond to the outbreak. A spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Agriculture declined to name the facility.
  • Idaho is fining Farmers $300 PER ACRE for using water

    06/22/2024 2:57:19 PM PDT · by davikkm · 49 replies
    Idaho farmers are indeed facing significant challenges related to water access. The Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) issued a curtailment order for eastern Idaho irrigators who were found to be noncompliant with a state-approved mitigation plan. This order was scheduled to go into effect recently. The curtailment order impacts about 6,400 junior groundwater rights holders who pump water from the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. This aquifer supplies water to the Twin Falls Canal Co, which has senior water rights. The projected shortfall of water to the Twin Falls Canal Co is approximately 74,100-acre-feet. To put this in perspective, an...
  • Pentagon Wants to Feed Troops ‘Experimental’ Lab-Grown Meat to ‘Reduce CO2 Footprint’

    06/14/2024 8:27:46 AM PDT · by Salman · 50 replies
    Washington Free Beacin ^ | June 13, 2024 | Adam Kredo
    A Pentagon-funded company is seeking proposals to feed America’s soldiers lab-grown meat in a bid to "reduce the CO2 footprint" at Defense Department outposts. BioMADE, a public-private company that has received more than $500 million in funding from the Defense Department, announced earlier this month that it is seeking proposals to develop "innovations in food production that reduce the CO2 footprint of food production at ... DoD operational environments," according to an online announcement. These include "novel cell culture methods suitable for the production of cultivated meat/protein," or lab-grown meat, a product that is still in its experimental phases. This...
  • Australia begins lockdowns on farms over bird flu.

    06/12/2024 5:05:04 AM PDT · by davikkm · 21 replies
    Australia has implemented lockdowns on farms due to bird flu outbreaks. Specifically, in the state of Victoria, more than 500,000 chickens have been euthanized, and strict quarantine zones have been established to restrict the movement of birds and equipment. The highly pathogenic H7N3 strain of avian influenza has been detected on four farms, while another virus, H7N9, has been found on a fifth property over the past seven weeks. As part of sweeping biosecurity controls, at least 580,000 birds have been destroyed.
  • Idaho Farmers: “We’re All Going to Fail”

    06/11/2024 6:20:28 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 84 replies
    Independent Sentinel ^ | June 10, 2024 | M DOWLING
    Idaho farmers are in danger of having their water shut off. The water shutoff order affects half a million acres of farmland and about 6,400 people who use the water. Without water, their farmland is worthless. The state of Idaho has put a water curtailment order, which is basically a water shutoff order on literally a half million acres of farmland. ‌ Many farming this land have already invested in thousands of acres, thousands of dollars per acre, to grow potatoes. It’s too late for them to survive without water. Why is the water being cut off? Essentially, this curtailment...
  • Water scarcity in Upper Klamath may cost local economy $64 million and 1,300 jobs

    06/04/2024 7:53:26 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 17 replies
    krcr ^ | Mon, June 3rd 2024 | Ashley Harting, Taylor Baker
    ...The study, partially funded by Klamath County, shows that the region's farms and ranches, worth over $368 million annually and employing over 3,000 people, are in jeopardy. The study highlights that this is due to water restrictions, which have already led to a loss of $12 million in income, with more at risk if restrictions continue. ...