A few years ago, I interviewed an author here by the name of Ted McClelland, a former Michigander who, as you might recall, had stirred up a little bit of a shit storm after referring to our home state as “Michissippi” in an article on Salon.com about our passage of so-called right-to-work legislation. “Michigan,” said […]
Tag Archives: meat production
The Porking of Michigan: We were promised high-tech jobs. Instead, we were given a pork processing plant.
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged cheap labor, Clemens Food Group, Coldwater, Community Development Block Grant, Doug Clemens, food processing, gut snatcher, hogs, lame duck, meat packing, MEDC, Michigan Strategic Fund, Michissippi, Pennsylvania, pigs, pork, pork processing, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, slaughter, Ted McClelland 23 Comments
Chef Alex Young of the Roadhouse on his work at Cornman farms and the importance of preserving foodways
In celebration of Zingerman’s making the front page of the New York Times business section this weekend, I thought that I’d post this recent interview I did with Zingerman’s Roadhouse managing partner, and James Beard Award-winning chef, Alex Young. Alex, as you may know, when he’s not serving up “really good American food” at the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized Also tagged Africa, Alex Young, American food, Amy Evans, Ari Weinzweig, cattle, Cornman Farms, country ham, Dexter, England, farm to table, farming, foodways, goats, Hilton, local food, local food production, meat, organic farming, oyster shells, Southern Foodways Alliance, Spaghetti Bolognese, tabby, vegetarianism, Zingerman's, Zingerman's Roadhouse 5 Comments
Stop the systematic abuse of antibiotics by factory farms
The Union of Concerned Scientists is lobbying for the passage of an agriculture bill that I’m very much in favor of. It’s called the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (H.R. 1549/S. 619), and, if enacted, it would curtail the frivolous, preemptive use of antibiotics by factory farms. Here’s some background from the Union […]
Posted in Agriculture Also tagged agribusiness, Agriculture, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, CAFO, call to action, confined animal feeding operations, factory farming, H.R. 1549/S. 619, livestock, PAMTA, poultry, Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, public health, Union of Concerned Scientists 13 Comments