(GH: Northwest News Network correspondent Anna King reports for Northwest Public Radio.)
RICHLAND, WA – A massive feedlot north of Pasco, Washington can draw as much water as it needs from a deep well according to a decision by a Franklin County Superior judge today. Dryland wheat farmers who have been fighting the 35,000 cow...
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(GH: Northwest News Network correspondent Anna King reports for Northwest Public Radio.)
Small farmers in Eastern Washington are going to court against an industrial feedlot with 30,000 cows. The source of the conflict is water. The two sides will argue the case tomorrow in Franklin County Superior Court. As Correspondent Anna King reports, the case could...
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The ethical treatment of farm animals is a growing concern for many Americans. And that puts states with relatively few animal cruelty laws, like Idaho, in the cross-hairs of animal welfare groups. It also makes those states attractive to livestock operations looking to relocate to less regulated areas.
In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent...
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The dairy industry in Idaho has seen explosive growth over the last decade or so. According to United Dairymen of Idaho, the state is now the 2nd largest milk producer in the West and the 3rd largest cheese maker in America.
That output comes, in large part, from confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, that...
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(GH) As mentioned in a previous post, Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” spoke at Washinton State University on Wednesday, January 13th. Here, from the agricultural weekly Capital Press, is an article on what Pollan had to say.
By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
PULLMAN, Wash. — Michael Pollan believes farmers may eventually solve three of the world’s biggest...
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Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore’s Dilemma, a critique of modern food systems that was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, will speak January 13th at Washington State University in Pullman as part of its annual common reading program.
What’s noteworthy about...
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Recently, Northwest Public Radio aired a profile about a family dairy as part of a series on the Northwest economy. It resulted in a flurry of comments from representatives of the dairy industry, and it spurred questions about the practices of pasteurization and homogenization. Mary Hawkins took the opportunity to speak...
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GH: Another story concerning the alleged environmental impacts of feedlots and factory farms in Southern Idaho. In this case the judge has ruled in favor of the accused feedlot manager.
There has been a tremendous growth in feedlots and large-scale dairies in Southern Idaho over the past decade or so.
With them has come concerns over...
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Idaho lawmakers are feeling pressure to update Idaho laws concerning animal cruelty in agriculture.
According to the ag. weekly Capital Press, the California-based Animal Legal Defense Fund last year named Idaho “one of the worst states in the nation with regard to animal cruelty laws.”
Fueled by films like “Food, Inc.” and Jonathan Safran Foer’s...
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