As more of our food is sourced from abroad, the average distance from farm gate to dinner table has now risen to over fifteen hundred miles. That's a bad energy deal in its own right: for every calorie of...

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Factory farmers typically mix low doses of antibiotics (lower than the amount used to treat an actual disease or infection) into animals' feed and water to promote their growth and to preempt outbreaks of disease in the overcrowded, unsanitary...

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51 Ways You Can Prevent Global Warming. An excerpt from the article in Time Magazine       Support your local farmer By Maryanne Murray Buechner Monday, Mar. 26, 2007 Fruit, vegetables, meat and milk produced closer to home...

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