Tag: swine

  • 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…

  • Blogiversary – The Big 3 and A Freebie!

    Blogiversary – The Big 3 and A Freebie!

    Three years ago this coming Sunday, I started a blog with this post about one of my favorite agriculture traditions. And boy oh boy, I had no idea the things that would come of this little ole blog. Over the past 3 years and almost 300 posts, I have learned far more about blogging and…

  • Hatred In The Most Flattering Form

    I’ve been in a writing rut lately. Between my full-time real job, blogging for the NCBA Young Producer’s Council, freelancing and finishing my thesis corrections, Buzzard’s Beat has been neglected. Thinking of blog fodder is difficult when my brain is dried up – looks like #drought12 isn’t just affecting the crops. I love to blog…

  • Another One Bites the Gestation Crate Dust

    While the rest of the U.S. is abuzz about a case of BSE being found in California – something I am not scared about at all, since I know the safety of our food supply (more on that here) – I am more concerned about this recent piece of news. Burger King becomes first US…

  • Delving Further into Antibiotic Use

    Happy Monday! As a brief follow up to this post, I found a podcast about antibiotic use in food animals from the AVMA media website. In this podcast, Dr. Scott Hurd, an associate professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine at Iowa State University, discusses quantitative risk assessments of antibiotic resistance in humans. He does…