by Daniel | Dec 20, 2017 | Defending Farming, factory farming, Farm, GRASSFED
I try to avoid discussing and mixing politics with my posts but frankly it’s impossible when government is so heavily involved in agriculture. The very existence of government subsidies (read tax payer $) is what keeps destructive, corporate agriculture alive...
by Daniel | Nov 29, 2012 | factory farming, Farm
Everyone; Christian, Jew or not, I believe is pretty familiar with the story of David versus Goliath. If you aren’t, here’s the condensed version and you can read the full version in 1 Samuel 17. The Army of Israel was going to battle against the...
by Daniel | Sep 9, 2012 | factory farming
Animal feed is the number one distributor for pharmaceuticals. The original intent in feeding antibiotics to animals was to ward off disease and infection but the side effect is that the animals gain weight faster and now we see people are too. How antibiotic...
by Daniel | May 16, 2012 | chickens, Chicks, factory farming, on farm processing, Pastured poultry, processing
Or get someone else like me to do it. We processed the broiler chickens we raised from day old chicks that we got from S & G Poultry this past Saturday. We raise our chickens on the pasture where they can live out their lives in a much more natural, healthy and...
by Daniel | May 13, 2012 | cows, factory farming
How can you argue with this? I was raised on stories of “a land flowing with MILK and honey.” What if Sunday school classes, in an effort to be factual changed it to “PUS and honey”? Just doesn’t give that spiritual lift does it? My one...
by Daniel | Mar 20, 2012 | chickens, Daniel, East West Farm, factory farming, free range chicken
When we first moved onto the farm, we were given four young chickens. Three Rhode Island Red hens and a rooster of some other breed. We named the rooster Max, one of the Rhode Island Reds turned out to be a rooster and we dubbed him Rex. So, after we added 32 White...
