Last week, my wife came home with a carton of eggs. No biggie, right? Well, she didn’t get them from the grocery store, but rather a co-worker of hers that has 12 chickens at home. She sells the eggs to everyone at work for $3 a dozen, and her chickens produce an egg [...]
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Dear EarthTalk: What’s the story with animal cloning? Is the meat industry really cloning animals now to “beef up” production
Cloning has been controversial ever since Scottish scientists announced in 1996 that they had cloned their first mammal, a sheep they named Dolly. While Dolly lived a painful, [...]
One of my favorite documentaries in recent years is “The Future of Food” – an in-depth look at what actually goes into making the food that ends up in your local grocery store. If you want to learn about genetically modified crops, patented pesticide-resistant seeds and the fall of the small-time farmer, you should check [...]
How’s this for an idea? I just came across this in the Heifer’s World Ark and I wish I had thought of it, but I didn’t – a public service campaign started in 1995 by the Garden Writer’s Association aims to have gardeners everywhere plant an extra row of food to be donated to [...]
