As #NationalDairyMonth concludes, we highlight American AgCredit's customer Sweet Land Farm, a goat dairy operation in Waialua, Hawaii. Sweet Land Farm helps achieve food security on the island with their delicious cheeses and caramels. Learn more about their efforts 🧀 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/etKYDmdF
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Thrilled to share this beautiful blog post about Food Alliance and Taylor Shellfish:) Enjoy the sunshine! https://lnkd.in/gjDEmQDP
Client Spotlight: Taylor Shellfish Farms — Food Alliance
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Open Cages secretly recorded large volume sheds if chickens and claimed they were malformed and unable to eat or drink, although the operators said the site had passed an inspection by the Red Tractor Assurance Scheme. What a joke 🙄 … and worse, the volume is getting higher and appallingly this constant abuse is legal. Overcrowded poultry sheds, deformed limbs and high numbers of deaths. The heat and the stench is unbearable. Open Cages took a photo of the same circumstances in Lincolnshire in 2022. The operator said no welfare issues were found in an inspection by the Red Tractor Assurance Scheme So the poultry industry has created 'Frankenchickens'? The term "Frankenchicken" was coined by animal welfare campaigners to describe genetically selected, fast-growing breeds. According to Kate Parkes, a poultry expert at the RSPCA, the standard organic chicken grows to its weight for slaughter in 81 days. In fast-growing breeds it's just 35 days. Ms Parkes said the most commonly used fast-growing breed is the Ross 308. The Eating Better Alliance (which comprises organisations including the RSPCA, WWF and Friends of the Earth) claims 850 million chickens are reared for meat in the UK each year. Of those, 95% are said to be reared in intensive indoor units. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) states England produces a phenomenal, virtually unimaginable 90 million chickens a month.#animalrights #animalwelfare #animalabuse
Depending on where you shop, the price of a chicken is roughly the same as a takeaway coffee! It’s outrageous that in this day and age the price of ‘cheap’ chicken is ‘cruelty beyond belief’ as expressed by Compassion in World Farming’s Patron Chris Packham #RespectAllLife https://lnkd.in/ejxktASp
Frankenchicken, farming and the cost of living crisis
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Tallow time! ‘Back in the day’ home cooks would have a little jar of this sitting on the kitchen counter, taken from any beef they’ve cooked with the intention to reuse the fat for frying other foods, roasting veg, making gravies and sauces... It fell out of favour with that extreme move to ‘health’ food that declared all fats bad, but it’s also suffered from people not cooking as much as they do at home as they used. But it’s making a comeback as people recognise the benefit of eating natural foods, and for it’s zero wastage origin - the more we can use of an entire animal, the better for the planet! I’m loving seeing it in stores, and especially a great brand like Wolki Farm who are an amazing enterprise who take holistic high welfare farming with a small environmental impact to the next level in NSW. Truly great people! Check them out over at: https://lnkd.in/gvt-f2fP And as I believe in transparency, this is not an ad, these guys have never spoken to me, I've just been a big fan of what they do for a while, and spotted their products in a farm shop! I’m gonna grab a couple of jars, and I can’t wait to fry some chicken in this! #ButcherGirlAlison #Tallow #BeefTallow #BeefFat #WolkiFarm #AussieProduce #AustralianProduce #AustralianFood #EatMe #AustralianBeef #Butchery #ButcherIndustry #ButchersOfInstagram #Butchers #MeatIndustry #BusinessBlog #ButchersBlog #AustralianButcher #ButcherCommunity #ButchersShop #BeefDripping
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Farmer & Rancher, Independent Seed Business Owner, Regenerative Ag Consultant & Speaker. Co-Owner of Vos Farms and Agventure High Plains and Owner of Prairie Seeds.
“Not the usual post” but we can all make a difference on how and where we buy our food. Demand #nutrientdense or we could just support more of the Greenwashing of all the retailers and keep buying what is convenient and cheap.. Brunch today is ALL #homegrown either from our farm (sweetcorn, beef, eggs) or from our farmers market (oinions and garlic) You dont have to farm or do #regenerativeagriculture to make a difference!
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🥚 **Understanding the British Lion Mark on Eggs** Hello everyone, I wanted to share some valuable information about the British Lion Mark, which you might have noticed on eggshells in the UK. This mark is a symbol of quality and safety in eggs. To check if your eggs have the Lion Mark, you should look for the following on the eggshell: 1.The Lion Logo: This is a red lion symbol, which indicates that the eggs are produced under the British Lion Code of Practice. 2.Best Before Date: Alongside the logo, there should be a best before date stamped on the egg. 3.Producer Code: This code consists of a number and letters, indicating the farming method, country of origin, and the specific farm where the eggs were produced. For example, a code might start with a number like ‘0’ for organic, ‘1’ for free range, followed by ‘UK’ to indicate the country, and then a unique farm ID123. All Class A eggs must be stamped with these details, and the presence of the Lion logo alongside the best before date and producer code confirms that the eggs adhere to the highest standards of food safety as per the British Lion scheme1. If you see these markings, you can be assured that the eggs are safe to eat raw or runny, even for vulnerable groups #FoodSafety #BritishLionEgg #QualityStandards
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Owner of Topsoil Restaurant and Licensed Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Drive - LIV Greenville Team
I just answered an email that came in through our website asking why we are named "Topsoil" and doesn't everyone find dirt distateful? How could we name a restaurant Topsoil? I appreciate the question and yes I guess if you don't live and breathe farm to table it really could seem like a strange name. I guess farming for the last five years has really changed my opinion of dirt. It takes good soil to grow good food - and yes good soil is beautiful - Topsoil #farmtotable #topsoil https://lnkd.in/dad-sxA9
Leading the Farm to Table Movement in Greenville SC
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Montana Has More Cows Than People. Why Are Locals Eating Beef From Brazil? Cole Mannix, of Old Salt Co-op, is trying to change local appetites and upend an industry controlled by multibillion-dollar meatpackers. (Article from NY Times) What inspires me about this article is not the beef. More than 85% of the country's beef is controlled by four meatpackers. Most of the profits go to them and how someone is trying to do something about it or the so-called stakeholder's mentality by taking on the risk of upfront capital for the vertical integration strategy connecting everyone along the way, from rancher to slaughterhouse, meatpacker to restaurant/consumer creating win-win which is inspiring “Making It Work” is a series is about small-business owners striving to endure hard times. "Cole Mannix, on his family ranch, is a co-founder of Old Salt Co-op, which aims to upend the way people buy meat. Only about 1 percent of the beef bought by the state’s households is raised and processed locally, according to estimates. Susan Shain lives in Helena, Mont. She visited Old Salt’s meat processing facility and restaurants, as well as the Mannix ranch, to report this story. While many people can conjure up romantic visions of a Montana ranch — vast valleys, cold streams, snow-capped mountains — few understand what happens when the cattle leave those pastures. Most of them, it turns out, don’t stay in Montana. Even here, in a state with nearly twice as many cows as people, only around 1 percent of the beef purchased by Montana households is raised and processed locally Here’s a common fate of a cow that starts out on Montana grass: It will be bought by one of the four dominant meatpackers — JBS, Tyson Foods, Cargill and Marfrig — which process 85 percent of the country’s beef; transported by a company like Sysco or US Foods, distributors with a combined value of over $50 billion; and sold at a Walmart or Costco, which together take in roughly half of America’s food dollars. Any ranchers who want to break out from this system — and, say, sell their beef locally, instead of as anonymous commodities crisscrossing the country — are Davids in a swarm of Goliaths. So, in 2021, Mr. Mannix co-founded Old Salt Co-op, a company that aims to upend the way people buy meat. The Union, a restaurant slash butchery, is Old Salt Co-op’s latest venture. Beef at Old Salt Co-op’s meat processing plant. While many Montana ranchers sell their calves into the multibillion-dollar industrial machine when they’re less than a year old, never to see or profit from them again, Old Salt’s livestock never leave the company’s hands. The cattle are raised by Old Salt’s four member ranches, slaughtered and processed at its meatpacking facility, and sold through its ranch-to-table restaurants, community events and website. The ranchers, who have ownership in the company, profit at every stage." #makingadifference #stakeholder #corporatesoresponsibility #CSR #TBL #purposedriven
Montana Has More Cows Than People. Why Are Locals Eating Beef From Brazil?
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We are once again bringing Vermont cheese down the East Coast to our Mid-Atlantic customers. Yes, our network of Virginia and Maryland dairy farmers and cheesemakers make superb cheeses, and as a food hub, one of 4P Foods’ core functions is to aggregate and distribute locally grown and ethically produced food to our customers. We've connected with other hubs dedicated to supporting small farmers, fair labor practices, ethical animal treatment, natural resource management, and racial justice. Like 4P Foods, many of them are committed to these same values. A question arose: what if we not only share advice, but also exchange Virginia-grown apples for Vermont cheese? Learn more about our Big Cheese Deal: https://buff.ly/3osATXE #localfood #ethicallyproduced #Vermontcheese #4PFoods
Exciting Big Cheese Deal: Bringing Vermont Cheese to Your Dairy Tote
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Definers, we’re back this month with a fun episode around a fan favorite, the avocado! It is estimated that per capita consumption of avocados in the United States has grown by 440% in the last 20 years and around 11 billion pounds of avocados are eaten globally. This has raised many questions about the sustainability of farming, production, and enjoyment of this fruit. In the episode we share a little about how avocados make it from farm to your guacamole and some of the social and environmental implications of our complex food systems. We are joined by Honor Eldridge, Food Systems Expert and Author of “The Avocado Debate,” a newly published book that provides insight and perspective on the unseen impacts of one of the world’s most popular foods. #foodsystems #avocados #sustainability
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Teach kids about growing their own vegetables🌱🥕🍆🫑🥦🥬 This changes their relationship with food. They also learn where their food come from and how to grow and care for it and how to harvest, this teach them how to be more responsible when it comes to food. #OrganicFood #FreshVeggies #FreshHerbs #GrowOrganic #FromGardenToTable #GardenAdvisor #Horticulture #SustainableFood #SolGreenFingers
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