Tag: food production

  • National Ag Day in Kansas

    National Ag Day in Kansas

    National Ag Day  – whoo hoo!  Across the U.S., thousands of farmers, ranchers, agriculture students and leaders are celebrating the rich heritage that is American Agriculture. Whether it be wearing a green farming t-shirt, handing out beef samples at the local grocery store or promoting agriculture via social media outlets, everyone in ag is doing…

  • Which Food Service Companies Ban Gestation Stalls?

    Which Food Service Companies Ban Gestation Stalls?

     image from here It seems like almost every month another food service provider breaks with the news that they are going to be phasing out gestation stalls. I have scoured searched a little bit on the internet for a succinct list of all these food companies but haven’t been very successful. Then I thought to…

  • World Food Day – Kansas Style

    As you’ve probably read, today is World Food Day. While every day is important to people who eat, today we are mindful of celebrating healthy, affordable and sustainable agriculture. I am not a big fan of the tenets the Food Day organization is touting because they don’t support all of agriculture and use misguided rhetoric…

  • I Don’t Want to Live Without Meat in 2050

    I Don’t Want to Live Without Meat in 2050

    I just read an article on Yahoo! that said the world may be forced into vegetarianism by the year 2050, according to some scientists at the Stockholm International Water Institute in Sweden. Here is a link to the article — http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/vegetarian-2050-190426669.html. Hell no. I refuse to live in a society where there is no meat.…

  • Consumer is a word

    Consumer is a word

    That I really don’t like. To me, it carries the same connotation as ‘educate’. We don’t need to ‘educate’ consumers, we need to engage, interact, talk to – anything but educate. And now I feel ‘consumer’ has joined the group of words that make me cringe when I hear them used during agvocate-speak. I don’t…