Joel Salatin

Polyface Farms

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Farmer/rancher at Polyface Farms in Swoope, Virginia; author of eight books on food an culture, including Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front, The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer and his latest, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

Joel Salatin on KCRW

Last Friday was the deadline for suggestions to the bipartisan supercommittee on debt, which received more than 175,000 ideas from other lawmakers, think tanks, lobbyists and the…

Does the Farm Lobby Really Want to Cut Subsidies?

Last Friday was the deadline for suggestions to the bipartisan supercommittee on debt, which received more than 175,000 ideas from other lawmakers, think tanks, lobbyists and the…

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Yesterday, FDA inspectors  reported  filthy conditions at the two Iowa mega-farms that have recalled a half billion eggs because of a  national outbreak of salmonella .  The irony is…

Egg Safety, Animal Rights and Industrial Farming

Yesterday, FDA inspectors reported filthy conditions at the two Iowa mega-farms that have recalled a half billion eggs because of a national outbreak of salmonella .  The irony is…

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Two massive egg farms thought responsible for a  nationwide outbreak of salmonella  were never inspected by federal agencies or the State of Iowa.

Egg Safety, Animal Rights and Industrial Farming

Two massive egg farms thought responsible for a nationwide outbreak of salmonella were never inspected by federal agencies or the State of Iowa.

from To the Point

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