Coming short on the heels of the nation’s mortgage banking meltdown, swine flu virus should sound another alarm about unrestrained capitalism run amok. How many wake-up calls do we need? It should be obvious that our current state of agriculture–industrialized and corporatized down to the last piglet–is designed not for our health and well being, but to line [...]
Here is what we know is true about food in the United States of America: Everything bad about it–the demise of family farms, the pollution, the unhealthy products–flows from decades of our government working hand-in-glove with huge corporations to build an industrial algriculture system based on fossil fuels that produces a glut of corn and [...]
Something I’ve been doing the last four years is reading stories three times a week to one of the classes at my daughter’s charter school. In addition, I incorporate a storybook into my “food appreciation” classes at a private elementary school here in the District of Columbia. All of which means I check out a [...]
Tags: dairy·Industrial agriculture
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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