Greener Pastures
Synopsis: How grass-fed beef and milk contribute to healthy eating.
What You Need To Know About Factory Farms
Synopsis: Created by Free Range Graphics (www.freerangegraphics.com) for GRACE, the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (www.gracelinks.org), The Meatrix is a humorous 4-minute Flash animation that spoofs The Matrix films while drawing attention to the problems caused by factory farming
What You Need To Know About Factory Dairy Farms
Synopsis: The sequel to the award-winning Meatrix movie takes on another facet of the factory farm industry, exposing the ugly truth behind factory dairy farms.
The Clearinghouse for Information about Pasture-Based Farming
Synopsis: Eatwild.com is your source for safe, healthy, natural and nutritious grass-fed beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry and dairy products. It is owned and operated by Jo Robinson, an investigative journalist who specializes in science-based health information. For the past five years, Jo has been investigating the differences between animals raised in feedlots and pasture-based farms.
The Eat Well Guide: Wholesome Food from Healthy Animals
Synopsis: The Eat Well Guide is a free, online directory of sustainably raised meat, poultry, dairy and eggs from farms, stores, and online outlets in the US and Canada (restaurants will be coming shortly). Consumers simply enter their zip code to find local products that were raised sustainably, including no antibiotics, no added hormones, pasture raised, grass fed and organic.
"This Steer's Life" by Michael Pollan (alternate link if main link fails)
Synopsis: This article is from the New York Times Magazine March 31, 2002, Section 6. The highly unnatural journey of Mo. 534, from calf to steak.
Synopsis: LocalHarvest maintains a definitive and reliable "living" public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. Their search engine, built entirely over Open Source software components, helps people find local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact with family farms in their local area.
Free Range, not Factory Farmed
"This Steer's Life" by Michael Pollan
Interview on NPR's "Fresh Air"
Sunday, Jun 4, 2006
The Grass-Fed Revolution
By MARGOT ROOSEVELT/ GRANDVIEW
Synopsis: Beef raised wholly on pasture, rather than grain-fed in
feedlots, may be better for your health--and for the planet
Other articles by Michael Pollan
"Cattle Futures ?" by Michael Pollan
Alternate link: http://michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=9
"The Way We LIve Now" by Michael Pollan
Alternate link http://michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=52
Synopsis: Pollan, a former editor at Harper's Magazine, is the author of The Botany of Desire and several other books that examine the intersections between science and culture. Here, he talks about his experience as a small-scale rancher and his decision to buy a cow and track its journey through the cattle system for The New York Times Magazine. He also discusses the widespread use of antibiotics in the meat industry, and why he thinks the system is fragile and susceptible to microbes and pathogens.
Synopsis: Slow Food, founded in 1986, is an international organization whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life. Through a variety of initiatives, it promotes gastronomic culture, develops taste education, conserves agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods at risk of extinction. It now boasts over 80,000 members in over 100 countries.