Vegetarians Cut Emissions

"The Countries that Can Really Make a Difference Have Not Really Got Sensitive Enough to the Plight of the Poorest of the Poor" - IPCC Chair Pachauri

We speak with Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about the climate summit, the role of developed countries, and why he promotes vegetarianism as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Pachauri and the IPCC won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/18/the_countries_that_can_really_make

e Coli, Cargill, Ground Beef

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html

Pollan's In Defense of Food, on Campus

In Dairyland, Pollan's 'Food' book sparks debate - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/us_food_book_university

Pastured Meats, Chemical-Free Produce, Hoke Co.

http://www.agr.state.nc.us/ncproducts/ShowSite.asp?ID=100747

Climate Change Odds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519134843.htm

Led Astray

http://allalongtheedge.blogspot.com/2009/04/vegetarian-myth.html

Pollan on Eating Well

Here's a sampling of Michael Pollan's rules of how to eat well:

Avoid food products that contain ingredients that are unfamiliar, unpronounceable, more than five in number or include high-fructose corn syrup.
Avoid products that make health claims.
Shop in the peripheries of the supermarket, where the fresh food is; avoid the middle, where processed food resides.
Eat meals, not snacks.
Eat plants, especially leaves.
Don't get your fuel from the same place as your car gets its gas.
Eat slowly, at a table, and try not to eat alone.

Red Meat Culture

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/health/28brod.html?_r=1&em

Rising Meadow Farm Open House, May 3

With just a week to go we are busy getting ready for our Open Farm on Sunday, May 3, 2009 from 1 - 5 pm.
Every year we have a joint Open Farm with Goat Lady Dairy - and this year is no exception! Here at Rising Meadow Farm we have 158 lambs bouncing around the pastures - they are just wonderful! We think you'll be able to see most of them on the 3rd. The Farm Store will be open for business. Fleeces S(natural-colored and Navajo-Churro only), roving for spinners and felters, yarn (I sent off Corriedale wool to the spinnery right after Shearing Day in February. The yarn just came back. Now I'm trying to dye some as quickly as possible for the 3rd.), Beautiful sheepskins - and of course lamb meat. All cuts are available.
This is the last we'll have until July - bring your cooler! Plan to come and just walk around the farms - Spring is a beautiful time on a farm. We (and the animals) have been enjoying green everywhere! Hope to see you on May 3rd - and as usual please leave your pets at home.

Less Meat, More Planet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7600005.stm

National Immigration Debate

http://www.ilcaonline.org/ht/display/ArticleDetails/i/71185