Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 SALEM, Ore. – The Northwest egg industry is changing the way it houses chickens. But animal rights activists in Oregon and Washington say the change isn’t going far enough. Lawmakers in both Olympia and Salem debated the welfare of egg-laying hens this year. Washington Governor Chris Gregoire has already...
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Three years ago, Alma Hasse walked purposely, head down, toward a red brick building. The Jerome County Courthouse held a mountain of files on the county’s dairy CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations, and Hasse wanted a look at them. She and her agricultural watchdog group, Idaho Concerned Area Residents for the Environment believed...
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Banks, located 40 miles north of Boise on the Main of the Payette River, is known as a rafting put-in and beautiful location for a summer picnic and swim. What few people know is that Banks is also home to the Church’s Backyard Farm run by Beth Church. Thirty years ago Beth married into...
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My ideology seized me the night before, as I sobbed and blindly transferred the girls from their usual roosts one by one into the plastic dog carrier that would be their final sleeping quarters, fumbling in the dark until my shaking hands would poke a startled squawk and give away their otherwise stone sleeping...
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A bird is helping blur the boundary between urban and rural America. A few years ago, a chicken would have been a reliable sign that you’d crossed into farm country. No more. As correspondent Guy Hand reports in this installment of Edible Idaho, chickens are invading many American cities — and helping...
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(GH: Chantal Anderson of The Northwest News Network reports on chickens as a path to college tuition on Northwest Public Radio.) SAMMAMISH, WA – The Washington state budget current under negotiation in Olympia includes cuts to higher education of 3 to 6 percent. That means tuition is on the rise for college students around the...
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The local food movement has caught on in Idaho. With a little effort, you can fill your plate with Idaho grown fruit, vegetables, meat, and fish. But not chicken. There wasn't a single commercial source of Idaho poultry in the state. Until now.
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