The Oakes family turned a hobby into a thriving agricultural business. In a region where farms traditionally provide only a small portion of a family’s income, they’ve created full-time jobs for themselves and a dozen other workers.
While some meat producers try to hide behind the law or euphemisms, a new public relations campaign by the American Meat Institute attempts to show consumers exactly what happens in a commercial slaughterhouse.
Today’s agriculture depends on chemically produced nitrogen to increase yields and feed the planet. That concentration of chemicals can have disastrous consequences, as we saw in West, Tex. But the dangers of those chemicals aren’t always what we are led to believe.
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Bureaucrat gone wild • Crucified on a cross of solar panels? • McConnell encourages Kentuckians to avoid tough questions about the future of coal • Sales-tax bill allows tribal groups to audit merchants.
Will Democrats split over education as hey did over gun control? • Some farmers make more money when their crops fail, report says • Woman prosecuted for taking slaughterhouse video from public road • Appalachian coal’s decline is not temporary, company says.
Nearly two weeks after the deadly blast in West, Texas, we still don't know much about what happened and why. The answers are not likely to come very quickly.
Industrial agriculture erases the identity of our food, filtering its origins as cleanly as removing bee pollen from honey. Just mix, blend, inject it with a brand – and it’s ready for a shelf near you.