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Convinced that food can save America

By Erik Curren | May 6, 2013

Student drinking yogurt

It's hard to overestimate the importance of food. Yet, sometimes it appears just as hard for food writers to avoid hype. It's all too easy for people who love food enough to write about food to lose themselves in breathless raptures over the deliciousness of forest foraged mushrooms or the power of artisanal pork to cure diabetes, resurrect rural economies and provide … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: David Gumpert, food policy, Joel Salatin, local food, Weston A. Price

Land of milk and money

By Erik Curren | August 9, 2012

food freedom demonstration

Fewer than 5% of all Americans drink raw milk. Yet, the question of whether Americans should be allowed to drink it at all is one of the hottest controversies between foodies and public health officials these days. As demand for milk that is neither pasteurized nor homogenized booms and more families try to acquire the stuff for the health benefits they believe that raw milk … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: food freedom, food-borne illness, Joel Salatin, raw milk, US Food and Drug Administration

America’s most famous farmer puts America over his knee

By Erik Curren | July 12, 2012

Joel Salatin speaking in 2010

It's not only Sarah Palin who thinks that America is the world's essential nation because Americans are exceptionally worthy. All too many of us Yanks continue to believe that we're the smartest, hardest working and most self-reliant people on Earth. And that God or evolution or just history has rewarded us with superpower status and super riches because we deserve it. Well, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: farming, industrial agriculture, Joel Salatin, local food, Polyface Farms

Joel Salatin and the straight poop on sustainable farming

By Staff Reports | July 6, 2012

Joel Salatin w pigs

A Pigaerator? What’s that? I’m glad you asked. Joel Salatin, Janaia Donaldson’s guest on this episode of Peak Moment TV, explains this, while providing many other fascinating insights Salatin's pasture-based agriculture on Polyface Farms in Virginia. To avoid the overgrazing so common in modern farm practices, animals are moved every day to fresh pasture, including their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films Tagged With: Joel Salatin, Peak Moment TV

Local food for smart people

By Erik Curren | June 20, 2012

buy fresh buy local

If you've read The Omnivore's Dilemma or seen the documentaries Fresh! and Food, Inc. then you already know that the problem with food today is that most of it is produced less for the benefit of eaters than for the profit of agribusiness corporations. But going on about confinement chicken houses or lakes of pig manure at factory farms might be kind of a heavy message for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: factory farms, Jasia Steinmetz, Joel Salatin, local food, paleo diet, vegetarianism, Weston Price

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