April 2008 Radio interviews with KZIM to be aired over the last week in April.
April 13, 2008 Ilene Davis wrote a nice article "Going Green" about organic, natural and the benefits for SHE Magazine.
July 3, 2007
Dayna Conners, a features columist at the Carbondale Times wrote a fabulous article highlighting what we do.
June 2007
Kate Galbreathe and Jim Hale of Two Rivers Health Magazine wrote an informative article but I do not have an electronic copy to share. If you work at a Doctors office or the hospital you and look around for a copy.
September 22, 2006
Another front page article in the Southeast Missourian! Here is a page link. Here is the cover photo.
June 16, 2005 Southest Missourian did a front page story on us. Here is the page link. Here is the cover photo.
February 19, 2005 We were featured on the local TV station KFVS. Here is the link to the text page. It isn't much to read but being on camera was an interesting experience.
The Meatrix
Watch the movie that started it all!The Meatrixspoofs The Matrix films and highlights the problems with factory farming. Join our heroes Moopehus, Leo, and Chickity as they help save family farms!
Winner of the 2005 Webby Award and viewed by over 15 million people,The Meatrixwill change the way you look at meat!
The Meatrix II: Revolting
The Meatrix II: Revoltingdelivers even more action, adventure, and humor than the first Meatrix, as our heroes Moopehus, Chickity, and Leo plunge into the revolting reality of industrial dairy farming.
The original Meatrix changed the way we look at meat. The sequel changed the way we feel about cheese. Watch The Meatrix II: Revolting!
The Meatrix II ½
Taking the fast out of fast food! The action continues in award-winning Meatrix series with The Meatrix II ½ as our heroes Moopheus, Leo, and Chickity learn firsthand about the problems with meat processing.
Picking up from their last adventure at a dairy farm, Leo and Chickity attempt to rescue Moopheus, who has been kidnapped and taken to a slaughterhouse. Watch The Meatrix II ½ to find out what happens!
These movies show why we raise animals ourselves rather then trusting a corporation.
Other items of interest
NAIS threatens every farmer and consumer in the United States! I am not eloquent on explaining all the whys and wherefore of it so I will send you to some other links that can.
The most eloquent writing have come from Mary Zanoni an attorney with no animals but a strong sense of right and wrong with knowledge to back her up. She has written quite a bit on this subject. Here are some really great writings:
Here are some links that will get you more information or to help you find a producer in your area.
Eat Wild, the clearinghouse for information about pasture-based farming.
Eat Well Guide, a directory of sustainable-raised meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs.
Local Harvest, where you can find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area or order products online. Please enter your Zip Code or City:
Sustainable Table, a consumer campaign developed by the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment.
Slow Food, an international organization whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food life.
Food Routes, a national non-profit dedicated to reintroducing Americans to their food: the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that carry it from the fields to our tables.
The 100 Mile Diet. When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles—call it "the SUV diet." On the first day of spring, 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon chose to confront this unsettling statistic with a simple experiment. For one year, they would buy or gather their food and drink from within 100 miles of their apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia. They now have a book and website to help others.
New Farm, sponsered by the Rodale Institute, this site has many valuable resources (including a new farmer locator).
Learn More from Books
Here are some of our favorite authors and their books as well as some links you may find informative.
Jo Robinson Pasture Perfect
Joel Salatin Holy Cows & Hog Heaven
Shannon Hayes Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook
Dr. Mercola's thoughts on Raw Milk The Real Reasons Why Raw Milk is Becoming More Popular http://www.mercola.com/2004/apr/24/raw_milk.htm
The Milk Paradox What is it about raw milk that makes Big Dairy's stomach turn? http://www.breadandmoney.com/docs/paradox.html
Weston A. Price Foundation Wise Traditions for Food, Farming and Healing Arts http://www.westonaprice.org/
YouTube - Raw Milk Ninja Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy, talks about raw milk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6AyznQDOfM
Comparison of Family Friendly Farm vs. Industry Chicken
Our Farm
Industry
How they are raised
Clean, fresh air and sunshine Fresh daily greens and bugs Plenty of exercise No medication or stimulants Full beak (no cannibalism) Practically no ammonia vapor Natural lighting in brooder Small groups (400 or fewer)
Air hazy with fecal particulate and practically no sunshine *No grasses, legumes, weeds or bugs *Limited exercise Routine medications and appetite stimulants (like arsenic) Debeaked (cannibalism a problem) *Hyper-ammonia toxicity No natural lighting *Huge groups (10,000 or more) causes high stress
How they are processed
Carefully hand eviscerated Customer inspected No injections during processing No chlorine baths No irradiation
Mechanically eviscerated (prone to breaking intestines and spilling feces over carcass) *Government inspected Routine injections (from tenderizers to dyes) Up to 40 chlorine baths (to kill contaminants) FDA-approved irradiation (label not required)
Nutritional Impact
Cooking loss 9% of carcass Long keepers (freeze > a year) Probiotics (immunostimulant) Low saturated fat Rich, delicious taste and edible
Cooking loss 20% of carcass weight Short keepers (freeze up to 6 months) Antibiotics (immunodepressant) High saturated fats Poor, flat taste definitely inedible
Guts cooked and rendered, then fed back to chickens Manure fed to cattle or spread *Toxic germicides to sanitize processing facility Environmentally irresponsible (hidden costs)
Social Impact
Promotes family farming Decentralized food system Consumer/producer relationship