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Monday
08Mar2010

Consumers Voting with Their Forks for "GMO-Free"

DateMonday, March 8, 2010 at 08:27AM

 

GMO-free is the fastest growing health and wellness claim among store brands in 2009 according to a report  from The Neilson Company, a leading marketing and media information company that studies consumer habits.  The report notes that "GMO-free" labeling on store-brands was up by 67% in 2009 while product sales were $60.2 million.  
It looks like more people are getting the message that genetically modified foods are being linked to a list of problems from organ damage in animals fed GMO corn to decreased crop yields despite promises to the contrary. 
I find it amazing that so many people are actually getting the message.  There's the occasional NY Times article, but outside of the blogosphere and some specialized online healthy food sites, the GMO controversy gets little notice. 
A Google alert on GMO's returns dozens of articles every day about opposition to GMOs places like Australia, India, France, Bulgaria and even Azerbaijan.  But not much in the USA.  Despite that consumers, it seems, are voting with their forks. 
For information on where to find non-GMO products, check out the website for the Non-GMO Project.
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Sunday
07Mar2010

Don't want to pay a premium for grass-fed beef? 

DateSunday, March 7, 2010 at 10:54AM

The New York Times' Nicholas Kristoff talks about the danger of using low-dose antibiotics to make factory-raised pigs, chicken and cows grow faster--super bugs that are resistant to antibiotics.  We're using so many in agriculture that today, more antibiotics are fed to livestock in North Carolina alone than are given to humans in the entire United States

A chilling quote: 

“We are seeing infections caused by Acinetobacter and special bacteria called KPC Klebsiella that are literally resistant to every antibiotic that is F.D.A. approved,” Dr. Spellberg said. “These are untreatable infections. This is the first time since 1936, the year that sulfa hit the market in the U.S., that we have had this problem." 

Grass-fed meat producers use antibiotics--if at all--only to fight an infection, not to promote growth. And the best ones (you can find them here at EatGreenDFW.com) don''t use hormones either.  True, their meat costs more but consider this paragraph from Kristoff's article. 

"Dr. Martin J. Blaser, chairman of the department of medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center, and a former president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, agrees that agricultural use of antibiotics produces cheaper meat. But he says the price may be an enormous toll in human health."

We're all going to pay for cheaper hamburger one way or another.  

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Thursday
25Feb2010

Yours Truly Featured in Advocate Magazine

DateThursday, February 25, 2010 at 09:26PM

Check out the latest edition of Advocate magazine.  Yours truly is featured prominently. The piece accurately describes the problems faced by me and people like Sarah Perry from the White Rock Local Market  and Ed Lowe at Celebration in bringing local foods to neighborhood markets.  

If you live in Dallas and like the idea of neighborhood markets, call your city councilman and tell him or her to do what they can to make it easy (and inexpensive) for local farmers to sell directly to you at an accessible location. 

And, if you live in Plano, do the same.  The folks in the Plano Health Department are right now drafting new farmers market rules and regulations.  I've met with them and their hearts are in the right place. Their new proposed regs will probably go before the Plano City Council in April.

Buying locally raised produce, grass-fed beef, pasture-raised pork and chicken, truly free-range eggs and farmstead relishes, jams and sauces should be as easy and accessible as buying Hamburger Helper® Spaghetti O's® and Cap'n Crunch®. 

 

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Wednesday
24Feb2010

New Beef Producer at EatGreenDFW.com

DateWednesday, February 24, 2010 at 03:19PM

Sendaro Brothers Ranch has joined the EatGreenDFW.com community.  The brothers Shane and David Hamilton raise their cattle on their ranch in Palo Pinto County, just west of Ft.Worth-Dallas overlooking the Brazos River Valley. 

As they explain on their website:

"Here, you will find the best in native grasses, cool clear water, and an atmosphere of low stress that provide our cattle with exactly what they need to bring you and your family a diet of low saturated fat, high CLA'S, high OMEGA 3's, and low cholesterol, in a beef that is produced in the ethical manner our customers have come to expect.

"Sendero  Brothers  cattle are never put through feedlots in cramped pens or given growth hormones or antibiotics. The nutritional benefits to both cattle and man are apparent and have allowed us to produce healthy natural grassfed beef with the nutrition, texture, and flavor your family will truly enjoy."

The brothers also offer all-natural grassfed/ finished Kosher Texas beef under the name "Abe's Sendero Brothers All Natural Grassfed/finished Kosher Beef".  Their meat is processed at Hamiltons Meat Market in Weatherford, which was started by their grandfather 45 years ago. The meat is is dry aged for 18 to 21 days before it is custom cut. They offer free delivery to DFW on orders over $90.

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Thursday
18Feb2010

Confused Over Food Terms?

DateThursday, February 18, 2010 at 06:39PM

Stumbled upon this great blog post that does a great job in explaining the differences between and among all those terms that foodies and food marketers like to throw around, like "certified naturally grown" and "naturally grown" and "Beyond Organic" and "GMO-free" etc. 

Worth a read. 

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