Photo by Salone Internazionale del Libro via flickr Vandana Shiva - scientist, author, feminist, and environmental activist - is speaking to Uprising Radio on behalf of proposition 37. As a long time advocate for organic, non-GMO food, Dr. Shiva has taken on big bio-tech and...
Photo by avrene via flickr If you’ve read the news in the last two days, there is a lot of commentary on “a study that shows the benefits of eating organic aren’t what we thought before.” The study, and the articles more so, highlight that eating organic doesn’t...
Looking for meat raised without antibiotics? Here's a great tool: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_pr1T33-EM&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Sign the Meat without Drugs petition,...
For Christmas, W and I amassed quite a haul of stuff to make our balcony more exciting. From a wormery to a bird feeder, to a beautiful box of seeds and tips from Allotinabox. I even got a can with a sunflower seed in it. Eating locally just got a whole lot more...
"Moving to America will increase your cancer risk by 400%." In a recent Ted Talk, Robyn O'Brien (author of “The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It.”) recently shared her insight as to why moving to America will increase your cancer...
The free-range girls with their coop and nest box. Photo by Jo Barlow. When our little chicken, Audrey, was entombed in her battery cage she was subjected to 18 hours artificial daylight to encourage her to lay an egg every day. This unnatural level of production made her...
Photo of Agatha. By Jo Barlow. There comes a time, even in an ex-battery hen’s life, when her wings may need to be clipped. Wing clipping is a quick and painless process of literally clipping the primary flight feathers of one wing rendering the chicken unbalanced -- and...
More info on organic farmers vs. Monsanto From EatDrinkBetter: Organic Farm Group Sues Monsanto, Seeking Protection From GMO Contamination From Monsanto's home newspaper: Farmers, seed companies sue Monsanto From The Cornacopia Institute: Farmers and Seed Producers Launch...
Aubrey helping in the garden. Photo by Jo Barlow. Offering a home to ex-battery chickens brings us benefits on many levels: to the global environment by highlighting the impact of intensive farming, to our own immediate environment and of course to the health and welfare of...
First whiff of freedom. Photo by Jo Barlow. One amazing and heart warming characteristic of ex-battery chickens is that, from the day you rescue them, they produce eggs. These little girls have been bred to be egg machines and no matter how desperate their appearance, how...
