Tag Archives: agribusiness

Oh Honeybees, We Hardly Knew Ye

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Laura Grace Weldon

Beekeepers report 78% percent increase in bee loss over the winter. Continue reading →

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5 Steps You Can Take To Save Honeybees

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Laura Grace Weldon

94% of US corn crop is treated with bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides Continue reading →

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Good Price on Honey? It’s Fake.

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Laura Grace Weldon

If you buy your honey from the grocery store, big box store, or drug store what is in that bottle isn’t real honey. Continue reading →

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Small Farms Create More Jobs

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Laura Grace Weldon

excerpt: “All the ways being proposed to increase jobs right now are the same old methods that do not face the real cause of the dilemma. The awful truth is that we have created an economy that can’t afford people … Continue reading →

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Neighborhood Cows and Pigs: Real Food Sovereignty

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Laura Grace Weldon

The more we bring responsibility for food back to our households, neighborhoods, and local regions the more we free ourselves from international market forces that affect our food supply. Continue reading →

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Cow Powered Treadmill, Really?

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Laura Grace Weldon

As humans use ever more energy to remain comfortably numb, we seem to be losing our sense of irony. And our humanity. Continue reading →

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Green-Washing Gates Foundation Style

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Laura Grace Weldon

Ecologically run farms are as productive and profitable as conventional, chemical-intensive farms. Which kind is the Gates Foundation funding to address world hunger? Continue reading →

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How To Celebrate A Cow’s Birthday

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Laura Grace Weldon

Isabelle shows gratitude with copious drool. It’s her birthday today. She takes pieces of carrot, apple, broccoli and rutabaga from my fingers gently, her large soft lips careful and delicate against my skin. She gives each mouthful a few bites … Continue reading →