Tag: slaughter

  • What By-Products Do We Get From Cattle?

    What By-Products Do We Get From Cattle?

    What do we get from cattle (besides a headache when they get out of their pasture)? A lot. So the obvious products we get from cows are meat and milk, right? If that wasn’t obvious to you, it’s totally ok. The bottom line is that all cattle produce milk but we really only collect milk…

  • How Are Cattle Slaughtered?

    How Are Cattle Slaughtered?

    Don’t run away from this post, please. I promise there are no graphic images embedded below that will make you regret your decision to read. That being said, I will not shy away from the fact that we slaughter cattle and we harvest corn. This slaughter question was posed to me in the comments of…

  • Rabbit Meat is the New Horse Meat

    If you haven’t seen the news lately, you’ve missed out on the ruckus Whole Foods Market is causing by selling rabbit meat in select locations in North Carolina and the D.C. metro area. Obviously, close-minded American up in arms. I forgot that if a food product isn’t widely consumed in the U.S. it must be wrong to…

  • Always a Little Late

    Always a Little Late

    I don’t have a great picture for this post, so here’s the newest addition to our family! Often, I arrive just in time for something – which in my mind means I’m late because I’d like to be everywhere 10 minutes early. So it doesn’t surprise me that I’m posting my my ‘Best of Thirteen’…

  • False Alarm for Horse Slaughter

    False Alarm for Horse Slaughter

    Horses of the Frobuzz ranch Horse slaughter was to resume this week. “Was” being the keyword. Last Friday, a U.S. District Court Judge dismissed a lawsuit and subsequent injunction against three plants that are itching to open their doors to America’s horses that are past their prime. The Humane Society of the US, Front Range Equine Rescue and…