I heard the news story noting concerns about the North Carolina pig farms a few days before Florence was scheduled to hit North Carolina. Despite being well informed about water pollution from hog farms (my former housemate worked on Clean Water issues decades ago and shared loads of stories), my first thought was concerns […]
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Stark Choices
September 17, 2018 – 4:16 pm
By Laura
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Posted in Stories from the Farm
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Also tagged humaneitarian, pasture-raised pigs, pigs
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Transitions
September 21, 2017 – 1:21 pm
Fall is arriving and with it some seasonal transitions of crops in from the fields and poultry ready to be processed. Today we took this year’s batch of 300+ Freedom Ranger chickens to Maple Wind Farm‘s inspected processing facility and this weekend we will process our turkeys on farm with a great crew of staff, […]
By Laura
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Also tagged chicken, freedom ranger, gratitude, humanitarian, pasture-rasied, processing
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Why is it Ethical to Eat Meat
April 18, 2012 – 10:42 am
Answering the New York Times Ethicist Query “Tell us Why it is Ethical to Eat Meat” On a cold day in December 2009 I stood on the steaming compost pile belting out “When the Saints Go Marching In”. I changed the words. “When the saints are of four hooves…” and I carefully put each head, […]