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Food News: Restriction on Antibiotic Use in Livestock
After reading Michael Pollan's books — especially The Omnivore's Dilemma — and watching the new film Food Inc., I was pleased to read the news that the Obama administration is looking to restrict the use of antibiotics in livestock.
The principal deputy commissioner of food and drugs testified that feeding antibiotics to livestock to encourage rapid growth must stop, and that farmers should only be able to use the drugs with the supervision of a veterinarian. The reason behind this recommendation is that the rampant use of antibiotics has strongly influenced the development of bacteria immune to many treatments, rendering common antibiotics useless in fighting infections.
Cows Eat Candy Too
Turns out that while corn-based ethanol fuel might be a good fuel alternative, it's actually causing candy to be a good livestock feed alternative. Due to the recent demand of ethanol, corn prices have gone up, forcing farmers to find an alternative source of food for their livestock.
Dwight Hess, a cattle feedlot operator in Marietta, Pa., is located in the heart of snack country, near Hershey and Herr Foods Inc., a maker of potato chips, pretzels and snack mixes.
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Cows and Climate Change
Here is yet another reason to avoid red meat. This is no joke but a reduction in livestock flatulence could possibly slow climate change. Or so says a recent study published in the medical journal The Lancet, in their special energy and health series.
Consumers Warm Up to Humanely Raised Veal
While the vegetarian trend has continued to rise, a meat movement is also gaining popularity. The latest subject in sustainable agriculture? Pasture-raised veal.
Trend Alert: Converted Barns
Think barns are just for livestock? With outstanding renovations of existing barns, as well as new designs inspired by vernacular barn style, they're more than fit for human habitation. And while you may not have been born in a barn, after taking a look at some of these designs, I bet you'd be proud to call one home.Source
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Farm Animal Art: E-I-E-I-Ohhhhh!
I may not peruse the halls of the MoMA every weekend, but I can appreciate art when I see it. Especially when the subject is animals! Artist Federico Uribe was inspired by ordinary objects to make these amazing farm animal sculptures, which are now on display at a Colombian gallery.
Food Section Sampler — June 17, 2009
- Why is America fascinated with everything the first family eats? — Chicago Tribune
- Ranchers that have eliminated antibiotics may still be feeding livestock antimicrobial compounds. — San Francisco Chronicle
- Mississippi catfish farms are being cannibalized by Vietnam's fish supply.
Paul McCartney and Friends Launch "Meat Free Mondays"
For those of you who haven't become recession flexitarians just yet, Sir Paul McCartney and friends want you to start somewhere. That's why today the Beatle and other celebs launched the UK version of "Meat Free Mondays," a campaign that already exists in the US and Australia to convince consumers to forgo meat one day a week. To check out which celebrities were in attendance, read more
Cute Alert: Enigmatic Pygmy Pigs Thriving in the Wild
Pygmy hogs, described by one conservationist as shy and "enigmatic," stand only 10 inches tall and weigh only about 13-20 pounds. Few are thought to exist in the wild.
"The practice of indiscriminate dry-season annual burning and uncontrolled livestock grazing," said conservationist William Oliver, "threatens the last surviving wild population of pygmy hogs in Manas [National Park in Assam, a northeastern state in India] and, if continued, will doubtless also affect many other threatened and sensitive grassland species."
Women Dressed in Flamenco Splash Spain With Color
Each April the residents of Seville, Spain, celebrate the Feria de Abril festival. The fiesta began as a livestock fair in 1847, and today it marks the beginning of the bullfighting season.
Throughout the week, Sevillanas parade through the city adorned in larger-than-life traditional clothes.
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