One of the most interesting panels to come out of the Monterey Aquarium’s recent event on sustainable cooking solutions talked about the increased consumer demand for farm animals raised and slaughtered using humane methods. Gourmet magazine wrote a piece on it that made me hopeful for more legislature like Proposition 2, which passed last November [...]

I’ve been reading so much on swine flu and factory farms, also known as CAFOs. There’s been a lot of controversy on whether they could indeed be blamed for creating this pandemic, and no proof of the particular strain found at the Veracruz pig farm just yet. This was one of the best articles I [...]