Posted by Barry on January 13, 2012
PR Flub of the Week The award this week goes to Trader Joe’s. The feel-good bastion of all things fair and natural, has steadfastly refused to sign a Fair Food Agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)—a social-justice organization based in the south-Florida migrant community of Immokalee. The coalition has long been pressing supermarkets […]
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Posted by Barry on January 2, 2012
Before buying your next cut of beef, consider these two photographs. The top one is of the Harris Ranch Beef Company feedlot along Interstate 5 about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. There, up to 100,000 cattle at a time are crowded on top of their own excrement into one square mile of […]
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Tags: CAFOs, Grass-fed Beef, Harris ranch, Open Space Meats
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