In the News!
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. 
 

What is the Meatrix?  

    The Meatrix

  • Watch the movie that started it all!  The Meatrix  spoofs 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 Meatrix  will change the way you look at meat! 

  Meatrix II  

    The Meatrix II: Revolting

  • The Meatrix II: Revolting delivers 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! 

  Meatrix II 1/2   

    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.

Protect our FREEDOM!No NAIS

NoNAIS.org
No Manditory Animal ID
Liberty Ark Coalition

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:

 
 
 
 
Learn More Online

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 Wild

Eat Well Guide, a directory of sustainable-raised meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs.

Eat Well Guide
   

Local Harvest, where you can find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area or order products online.
Local Harvest Please enter your Zip Code or City: 

 

Sustainable Table, a consumer campaign developed by the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment.
Sustainable Table

Slow Food, an international organization whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food life.
Slow Food

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.
Food Routes

The 100 Mile DietWhen 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

steerHere 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
Eat Wild
http://www.eatwild.com/
 
Got Raw Milk?
http://gotrawmilk.org/
More About Raw Milk by Sally Fallon
http://www.karlloren.com/aajonus/p23.htm
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/ppnf/index.htm
Raw Milk Facts
http://www.raw-milk-facts.com/index.html
Real Milk Information and Alerts
A Campaign for Real Milk
http://www.realmilk.com/
Supplemental Report in Favor of Raw Milk
Expert Report and Recommendation
http://www.karlloren.com/aajonus/p15.htm
  
The Case for Untreated Milk
http://www.seedsofhealth.co.uk/articles/case_for_untreated_milk.shtml
The Health Benefits of Raw Milk from Grass Fed Animals
http://www.drrons.com/benefits-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


Environmental Impact
 

Guts & feathers composted
Manure falls directly grass
Sunshine sanitize processing area
Environmentally responsible

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

Promotes feudal/serf agriculture (big agribusiness)
Centralized food system  (food monopolies)
Consumer/producer alienation (can’t trust them)

 

 

Inspired and adapted from Joel Salatin’s book “Salad Bar Beef”. 

Family Friendly Farm
834 State Highway V
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
(573)335-1622
info@familyfriendlyfarm.com
www.familyfriendlyfarm.com