Livestock
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How Cows are Treated in India
We’re having a stimulating discussion about our relationship with animals in Lindsay’s recent ‘Meet Red‘ post. One side thought amidst…
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The Domestication Spectrum: How Our Relationships With Plants and Animals Define Our Existence
by Kyle Chamberlain, The Human Habitat Project Our bonds with other species are as vital, to survival, as our bonds…
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Life at Zaytuna – Meet Red
Editor’s Preamble: People are increasingly disgusted with the cruelty, disease and pollution associated with factory farms. Events like the recent…
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Chicago’s Chicken Ordinance
This is a rather amusing look at Chicago’s ‘Chicken Ordinance’. The moral of the story is if it’s not on…
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The Buffalo Commons
Here’s an idea that should be embraced and championed by all earth repair advocates: The Buffalo Commons. The Buffalo Commons…
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Joel Salatin and the Expression of Chickenness
Joel Salatin runs one of the best examples of a fully functional & productive sustainable farming operation found anywhere in…
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Are You Paying to Burn the Rainforest?
If you’re buying Brazilian beef, the answer is yes by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist,…
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Hooray for the Water Buffalo!
They are called water buffalo for good reason Photos Copyright © Craig Mackintosh Did you know that more than five…
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All Pigs in Egypt to be Culled
Continuing on from yesterday, where we revealed some pretty concrete links between H1N1 (Swine Flu) and corporate factory farms, and…
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Pandemic Ahoy?
Factory farming is back in the spotlight…. The 1975-77 TV Series ‘Survivors’ I’m showing my age here, but I was…
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Porkine Putridity in Profusion
If you wonder what it’s like in and around the world’s largest pig production empire, please read this. And if…
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Permaculture Pooch
Alanna Moore is the author of ‘Backyard Poultry – Naturally‘ – where you can read more about Vikki and poultry…
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