Tag: agriculture
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If You’re Wasting, You Shouldn’t Be Whinging
There’s a little bit of Australian vocab for you – whinging means to whine, complain, protest, etc. Didn’t know you were going to learn about food wastage and vocab today, did you? Anyhow, several factors led to this blog post – first, there was this article from Drover’s. I’ll be sort-of summarizing it so if…
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Buzzard’s Top Five in 2012
I wanted to have a great post to start ‘twenty-my-favorite-number’ off the right way but the holidays, a cold, the flu, a Fiesta Bowl road trip, a wedding and moving my office have all lent themselves to blog un-productivity. So forgive me as I bring your attention to an easy blog post. The Top Five…
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PETA Targets Kids With Christmas Billboard
Apparently, PETA knows no bounds. They have now taken to targeting children with their venomous lies about animal agriculture and the most recent incident is a billboard that poses the question: “Kids, if you wouldn’t eat your cat, why eat a turkey?” I can answer that – a cat is a pet. It sleeps on…
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Blogiversary – The Big 3 and A Freebie!
Three years ago this coming Sunday, I started a blog with this post about one of my favorite agriculture traditions. And boy oh boy, I had no idea the things that would come of this little ole blog. Over the past 3 years and almost 300 posts, I have learned far more about blogging and…
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World Food Day – Kansas Style
As you’ve probably read, today is World Food Day. While every day is important to people who eat, today we are mindful of celebrating healthy, affordable and sustainable agriculture. I am not a big fan of the tenets the Food Day organization is touting because they don’t support all of agriculture and use misguided rhetoric…