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WHAT IF FDA AND EPA DIED TOMORROW?

This has been a great discussion.  Can you abide one more post?  This one is stimulated by the question what would actually happen if EPA and FDA died tomorrow? 

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NO EPA?  NO FDA?

Yesterday’s post about SCOTUS green lighting California’s ban on crated sows elicited some wonderful responses.  Thank you.  This proposition does nothing to other states; it simply says that within California, pork from crated sows cannot be sold…

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CALIFORNIA SWINE REGS OKAY

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of California’s ballot initiative to prohibit pork being sold that originated from piggies born in farrowing crates…

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ROGUE FOOD CONFERENCE

I’m thrilled to announced that the Rogue Food Conference is coming back to Polyface this spring May 13…

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BARN SHEEP

Saturday night I did my last of three  3-hour workshops, just outside of Hebron, and am now heading back home…

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AVRI RON

Yesterday I had the special privilege of spending a couple of hours with the man known as the agrarian patriarch of Israel, Avri Ron.  He’s also the largest organic certified farmer in Israel and perhaps the Middle East…

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BULLDOZED VINEYARD

Yesterday the Israeli government sent in bulldozers to destroy a 20-acre vineyard near where I’m staying in Israel.  You might wonder why.  Fair question…

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JUDEA AND SAMARIA

I’m in Israel at the invitation of HaYovel, a 20-year effort started by the Waller family to minister encouragement to Israeli farmers.  Yesterday I met with two farmers and tonight I’ll be speaking in the Jordan Valley…

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HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI

One of the reasons I took nearly a month off from blogging was because I was hunkered down with a new book…

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KROGER’S CARBON NEUTRAL EGGS

By now you’ve no doubt seen the plethora of press releases from Kroger saying they have the first carbon neutral eggs in the country…

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LIVESTOCK mRNA

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s DEFENDER has done us all a wonderful service by shining the light on the plethora of pharmaceutical efforts to create mRNA vaccines for livestock…

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