Americans eat an average of 222 pounds of meat each year. Though we only rank 17th in world per capita consumption (Denmark ranks #1, followed by the Czech Republic and Spain), that’s still a lot of meat– roughly 73 billion pounds per year, the equivalent of 146 million heifers or 18 billion chickens. We eat more [...]
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Cow or Goat: Which Milk is Better?
A lot of my customers say they like my cheese because “goat’s milk is so much better for you than cow’s milk.” I love to hear that, because we raise goats. But is it true? Here are some common beliefs about goat milk as compared with cow milk: It contains less fat It contains less [...]
There Can Be Only One
(Wal-Mart photo.) Time Magazine reports that Wal-Mart has a plan: to put as many of its remaining competitors out of business as it can. And financial writer Jeff Hwang at Motley Fool notes that Wal-Mart already exerts an emormous amount of leverage over its suppliers: “Wal-Mart accounts for 28% of Dial’s sales, 24% of Del Monte Foods’ [...]
Eggplant Trivia
(Kuljul photo.) Which country grows the most eggplant? It might surprise you to know that it’s China, which grows more than half of all the eggplant in the world (56%). India comes next with 27%. Egypt comes a distant third with 3%. That’s right: two countries produce 83% of the world’s eggplant! The United States [...]
If You Eat Meat, Know Its Source
(Detail of a photo by VirtualErn.) The Reverent Eater reminds us that most store-bought (and restaurant) meat comes from CAFOs in which the animals are kept in appalling conditions— and fed food that they have no business eating. Cows are often fed corn (which they don’t digest well) and feather meal, the waste from chicken [...]
