Category Archives: Farm Issues

Food Matters – A Documentary You MUST See!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
Food Matters is a documentary film informing you on the best choices you can make for you and your family’s health. In a collection of interviews with leading Nutritionists, Naturopaths, Scientists, M.D.’s and Medical Journalists you will discover… How to use food as medicine Who needs vitamins? Is organic better? How safe is our food? Natural treatments for lowering Cholesterol Foods [...]
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CBS Evening News to Report on Antibiotics in Food-Animal Production, Feb 9th and 10th

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
CBS Evening News will air a two-part report on antimicrobial use in food-animal production. The series is scheduled for evening news broadcasts Feb. 9 and 10, at 6:30pm EST. Featuring Katie Couric, the report will investigate both meat and poultry production. See full article HERE.
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Next on the White House Agenda…Drug-resistant Infections from Meat?

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: February 9, 2010
Antibiotics and hormones are fed to livestock, poultry, and fish on factory farms to promote faster growth and to compensate for the unsanitary conditions in which they are raised. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, as much as 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are fed to healthy farm animals. [...]
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What to Eat – It’s Complicated!

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: January 29, 2010
At a recent lunch with a new friend, the following dreadful words slipped from her mouth…”Please don’t judge me while I eat this!”, as she took her first bite of burger. Not again! Why do so many meat eaters new to my life assume I’m judging them? They either try to defend eating meat, shamefully [...]
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What is your “food print”?

By blissfulrebelchick | Published: December 18, 2009
I try to avoid self labeling as much as possible, but I just had to smile when a good friend referred to us as “Locavores” the other day. Such a funny word!  A locavore is someone who aims to eat food that is locally produced, normally within 100 miles from home. Let me begin by addressing the [...]
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