Plastic Farm AnimalsCamille lives with her soul mate Bob in the back woods of central North Carolina where she hikes, gardens, cooks, and writes.
The hype over bird flu has been good for US Agri-giants Tyson (self-proclaimed World’s Largest Protien Producer) Goldkist, Pilgrim’s Pride, Perdue & ConAgra according to “Bird Flu and Chicken Factory Farms: Profit Bonanza for US Agribusiness” The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report in 2004 on the economic impact to date of […]
a)What’s invisible and smells like worms? b)What’s the white stuff in bird poop? c)Why are so many Americans worked up over Bird Flu when there have been less than 100 deaths worldwide over the past two years and no incidents in North America? Answers: a) bird farts b) that’s bird poop, too c) that’s not […]
My day in the kitchen begins and ends with this little saucepan. Donated to our culinary cause by good friends, it serves us all day long. The first thing I do after getting out of bed is turn on the burner to boil water for coffee. I spend an average of 2 hours in the […]
What better day to find out about this in the New York Times today: New projections, buried in the Interior Department’s just-published budget plan, anticipate that the government will let companies pump about $65 billion worth of oil and natural gas from federal territory over the next five years without paying any royalties to the […]
The obvious cost of the US’s oil addiction is Operation Iraq Liberation (OIL) or, um Operation Iraq Freedom. For that we have 150,000 dead human beings, one country in ruins, and the other politically divided and financially stressed. The worst cost is, of course, what burning all this oil is doing to our atmosphere. Global […]