Real Health News Digest May 26, 2009

by Charles on May 25, 2009

hear-ye-clip-artCow share threat in California? – Grass Fed Beef Certification – Farmers under 40 – Free Range Eggs and Fast Food – These stories and many others are all here! Read on…

Are cow shares being targeted in California? A new survey raises questions. Some analysis of the survey; California’s Senate Majority Leader, who has become Raw Milk’s best friend in California state government, gets involved and some thoughts by the ever astute Complete Patient on that involvement. This story will be worth watching as it unfolds. We will have the latest information as it becomes available.

“Cage free,” “certified,” “enriched;” what do they all mean? 26 Common Food Labels Explained.

Is fast food really moving toward using cage free eggs? 2% free range vs. 98% conventional has someone understandably mad.

Meanwhile in Britain more businesses are switching to using only free range eggs and the sector is set to grow strongly as the 2012 ban on conventional battery farm eggs approaches.

“Some of the biggest lines for today’s weekly farmer’s markets will form outside the trailer of Kurtz and Sons Dairy for two prized foods: raw milk and grass fed beef.”

Food policy in the new Administration: A Who’s Who.

Raw cheeses a step closer in New Zealand.

Back yard organic eggs: neighbors cry “fowl.”

“That’s the huge misconception about eating naturally-occurring, organically-grown good food. Going meatless, it turns out, affected us in a couple of ways. Our energy levels sagged, and our overall health suffered. We checked out the meat case at the food co-op we belong to, and let me tell you that biting into a real hamburger re-ignited that Mother-given love affair with meat. It was a bit of bliss, and life was good again.”  A meat-eating activist.

A new book: “The Compassionate Carnivore, Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald’s Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat.”

Grass fed beef in PA: Ironstone Spring Farm doing well.

The  Portland, Oregon based “Food Alliance” offers certification for grass fed status.

Queens, NY: Seeing the live animal that will soon become your meal.

Raw milk in Australia: Homogenization has deprived us of “the creamy, off white real thing.”

Many summer internships are going organic!

Farmers under 40; college students are going Greenhorn.

Green food movement sparks controversy on campus and off.

W.H.O. rewrites its pandemic rules. So much for the Swine Flu…

Having babies late in life tied to longevity.

The secret to weight loss is body type, a doctor and Nutrition.

Mexico grapples with obesity and malnutrition.


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