With pollanistas everywhere urging the public to stop eating meat as a way of slowing global warming, it’s refreshing to see people who know a thing or two about raising meat sustainably speak out in defense of one of our most nutritious foods. Not long ago, Eliot Coleman, the acclaimed produce farmer, was roused to [...]
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Devora Kimelman-Block has a problem some of us might like to take on: more beef than she can handle. Kimelman-Block operates a meat trade out of Takoma Park, MD, that specializes in grass-fed, kosher meats. Why kosher? Because “Jews should not have to choose between eating according to their values and keeping kosher,” declares her [...]
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We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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