I was looking for a book on poultry health care so I checked Poultry Health and Management by David Sainsbury out from the library. When I got it home, it turned out to be a book about commercial poultry production, and it had pretty much nothing in it dealing with our sort of farm. [...]
Archive for December, 2010
When is enough enough?
Posted in Food History, Food Politics, Food Theory, Locavore, Poultry, tagged capitalism, Chicken, Eggs, free range, hybridization, poultry on December 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When the Shit Hit the Cheese
Posted in Food History, Food Politics, Food Theory, Locavore, tagged Bravo, CDFA, cheese, E. Coli 0157:H7, FDA, Pollan, recall, Salitan, Sally Jackson Cheeses on December 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
There has been a lot of discussion on FaceBook about two recent recalls of artisan cheese, one by Bravo Farms in California’s Central Valley and the other, perhaps more serious, by Sally Jackson Cheeses of Oroville, Washington. Bravo Farms, which produces my favorite California Cheddar, “Silver Mountain”, is not tiny, but is small by any [...]
Cracking Our Egg Problem
Posted in Food History, Food Politics, Food Theory, Locavore, Poultry, tagged Chicken, Food, Food Politics, Locavore on December 9, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I had to do something this week that is thoroughly depressing and demoralizing: I had to buy eggs. Now that might not sound like such a big deal to many of you, but you have to understand that I have 21 chickens and 12 turkeys on my payroll and I do expect something in [...]
