Harvest Eating 101

Super Healthy Milk

by Sparky on November 16, 2009

Most cartons of milk in the supermarket show a picture of cows contentedly grazing on grass. Unfortunately, 85 to 95 percent of the cows in the United States are now being raised in confinement, not on pasture. The only grass they eat comes in the form of hay, and the ground that they stand on is a blend of dirt and manure.

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Cheap Meat: An Accident Waiting to Happen

by Sparky on November 16, 2009

The latest fiasco in the U.S. livestock industry is that thousands of hogs and chickens have been raised on feed contaminated with melamine, the same chemical that has sickened thousands of cats and dogs. According to the U.S.D.A., some meat from those hogs and chickens has already entered our food supply.

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Health Benefits of a Raw Food Diet

by Sparky on November 16, 2009

Raw food presents lesser problems to your digestive system. The absence of oil and other harmful cooking ingredients allows your digestive system to quickly and smoothly digest food and eliminate waste from your system without making you experience any acidic reaction.

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Grass-Fed Basics by Jo Robinson

by Sparky on November 16, 2009

Back to Pasture. Since the late 1990s, a growing number of ranchers have stopped sending their animals to the feedlots to be fattened on grain, soy and other supplements. Instead, they are keeping their animals home on the range where they forage on pasture, their native diet. These new-age ranchers do not treat their livestock with hormones or feed them growth-promoting additives.

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I love Local Eggs

by keith on November 16, 2009

One of the great things about living in rural America is the access to farm fresh traditional foods like eggs. The eggs I get are totally different then the eggs most of you reading this get. My eggs have richly colored yolks, a sign of chickens that eat a diet perfectly suited [...]

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