For the past two days, I have been at the North American Leaders Session, which is a meeting hosted by the Center for Food Integrity designed to bring together leaders of livestock coalitions from across North America to meet and share ideas. Now, you’ll notice that I said North America and not just…well, America. We [...]
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The pride and tradition of being pure
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agriculture, beef, cattle, college, education, farming, hogs, leadership, livestock, Michigan State University, MSU, purebred, seedstock, swine, teaching on March 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
There’s something about being involved with purebred livestock that just makes my heart swell with pride. Now, that’s not to say anything is wrong with raising commercial livestock – I’m grateful for every farmer that produces the vast majority of what I eat every day – but there’s something to be said for getting around [...]
Should we thank PETA and HSUS?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agriculture, agvocacy, livestock, Michael Pollan, Oprah, vegan on February 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I, like many people in the agriculture world, tuned in to watch Oprah when I heard that she and her staff of over 300 people were giving up meat and all other animal products for a week-long “vegan challenge”. Now, it’s no secret that Oprah has had her issues with the livestock industry, so [...]
