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• Zoos Killing Healthy Tigers for Skin Trade

  Published: July 23, 2007, 9:31 am

  Tags: Offbeat News, Animal, Animals, Cruelty, Endangered, Farms, Poaching, Skin Trade, Species, Tigers, Zoo, Zoos

  sourced from animals kept in farms, reports BBC. It’s said that there are at least five tiger farms in China, housing about 5,000 animals, the majority born and bred in captivity. Animal welfare and conservation groups are virtually united in their opposition. Re-opening a domestic market would boost poaching for that market, they

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• Target Find: Key Lime White Chocolate Petite Cookies

  Published: August 29, 2007, 12:03 pm

  Tags: Archer Farms, Cookie, Cookies, Generic Brand, Key Lime, Store Brand, Target, Target Stores, White Chocolate

  in-store brand, Archer Farms, and some of the products they offer.I mentioned the Chocolate Chip Petite Cookies last week, which were fine, but not worth running off to Target, battling the Soccer Moms in SUVs in the parking lot, and waiting in a confusing doubled-up line for 15 minutes. They're chocolate chip cookies, for goodness'

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• Today In Catalogs (tasty Shit Edition): Pears, Pumpkin Cakes, & Homegrown Pecans

  Published: September 14, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Feature, Food Porn, Harry Amp David, Sunnyland Farms, Sur La Table, Today In Catalogs, Today In Catalogs Tasty Shit Edition, Williams Sonoma

  The first one came in last Wednesday. It was followed by another on Saturday, then another on Monday. And when the fourth food-porn catalog came in yesterday, it finally hit me: the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Layla Dietz Body Found?

  Published: September 26, 2007, 1:27 am

  Tags: General News, Coast Guard, Detroit Police Department, Dietz, Green Eyes, Grosse Pointe Farms, Layla, Layla Dietz, Sun Tattoo, Yacht Club

  a 30 year old Grosse Pointe Farms woman who disappeared from the yacht club about 1 a.m. Sunday. (more…) coast guard, detroit police department, dietz, green eyes, grosse pointe farms, layla, layla dietz, sun tattoo, yacht clubDid you enjoy reading this post? Buy me a nice cup of coffee to fuel my late night writing sessions and keep the

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• Deformed Frogs, Malaria, West Nile, Dead Coral…but man is my lawn green!

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:37 pm

  Tags: Science, Amphibian, Cholera, Deformities, Fertilizer, Frogs, Malaria, North America, West Nile, Farms, Contaminated, Yards

  Ah the American Dream, to have an expansive green lawn! To have flowing fields of bountiful crops! Why, there couldn’t possibly be a downside to this, could there? A new study shows that fertilizers from farms and lawns are responsible for frog deformities cropping up in ponds and lakes across North America. The finding not only [...]

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• Halloween Family Activities

  Published: October 2, 2007, 3:14 am

  Tags: Holidays, Autumn, Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Halloween Season, Halloween Story, Pumpkin Farm, Pumpkin Farms

  month of October, pumpkin farms usually have attractions like live music, hayrides, and crafts, not to mention the opportunity to hand select your very own pumpkin right off the vine. (more…) autumn, great pumpkin charlie brown, halloween season, halloween story, pumpkin farm, pumpkin farmsDid you enjoy reading this post? Buy me a nice

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• What’s Happened to the Jack London Square Farmer’s Market?

  Published: October 7, 2007, 10:41 pm

  Tags: Community, East Bay, Environmentalism, Food, Oakland, Farmer S Market, Happy Boy Farms, Jack London Square, Kashiwase Farms, Mental Masala, Organic, The Ethicurean

  I quickly spotted Happy Boy Farms and snagged some lettuce, since I know they always have the best selection. I passed up their tomatoes though, thinking there would be at least a few other farmers selling tomatoes (I like to spread my money throughout the market). As I walked through the market though, I started to realize that spending money

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• Emmerdale Celebrates Its Birthday

  Published: October 16, 2007, 8:56 pm

  Tags: News, Amos Brearly, Bad Tv, Comedy, Emmerdale, Emmerdale Farm, Farming, Farms, Funny, Humor, Humour, Mandy Dingle, Photoshop, Please Scrap Emmerdale, Satire, Satirical, Sheep, Wit, Witty, Worst Show On Tv

  Dreadful ham actors, talentless hack writers, and inbred viewers alike are this week celebrating the 25th birthday of Emmerdale, the show credited with making Wellington boots fashionable among the dim and the credulous. The show has prided itself on having some of the dullest storylines for two and a half decades, while the crud of [...]

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• Bitter Harvest for Small Farms

  Published: October 20, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bitter, Harvest, For, Small, Farms, Jean Rinaldi, Richard Bean, Charlottesville, Christine Solem, Lynchburg, Farmers Association, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wal Mart Stores Inc, Amy Childs, Elaine Lidholm, Greg Niewendorp, Joel Salatin, John Coles, Lynne Bair

  WINGINA, Va. -- To some, Richard Bean is a folk hero: the small farmer who dared to sell local, naturally raised pork chops, ribs, sausages and bacon. To the government, Bean looks like a felon.

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• Bluetongue, red herrings and the white stuff

  Published: September 27, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Adbusters, Advertising, Buy Nothing Day 2006, Christianity, Consumerism, News, Politics, Asda, Bluetongue, Dairy Farms, Milk, Morrisons, Oft, Safeway, Sainsburies, Tesco

  Terry Wogan is my nemesis. He's clearly out to get me. Here I was, happily agonising over whether, in this week's column, I could safely make a joke about a devastating disease threatening our livestock industry, when, faster than you can explain that MRSA is not short for Mister South Africa, there it is. Wogan beats me to the golden Bluetongue

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• Now's your opportunity to rate Schrute Farms

  Published: October 22, 2007, 2:39 pm

  Tags: Listing, Nbc, Ratings, Scrute Farms, Scrutefarms, Trip Advisor, Tripadvisor

  -- his agro-hotel Schrute Farms -- had a listing on the popular travel ratings site TripAdvisor. Sure enough, someone at either the show or NBC had the wherewithal to work with the site to create an actual listing for Schrute Farms, giving users the chance to rate and comment comment on it just as they would on a Hilton or Days Inn.Continue

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• Now's your opportunity to rate Schrute Farms

  Published: October 22, 2007, 2:39 pm

  Tags: Listing, Nbc, Ratings, Scrute Farms, Scrutefarms, Trip Advisor, Tripadvisor

  -- his agro-hotel Schrute Farms -- had a listing on the popular travel ratings site TripAdvisor. Sure enough, someone at either the show or NBC had the wherewithal to work with the site to create an actual listing for Schrute Farms, giving users the chance to rate and comment comment on it just as they would on a Hilton or Days Inn.Continue

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• Fall’s Here

  Published: November 4, 2007, 9:16 pm

  Tags: Community, Environmentalism, Food, Oakland, Apples, Happy Boy Farms, Kashiwase Farms, Lucero Farms, Macdonald S Organic Farm, Persimmons, Twin Girls Farm

  No more Kashiwase Farms, with their juicy assortment of peaches, nectarines, plums, and pluots. Lucero Farms had also disappeared, and along with them, their summer squash, zucchini, and a dozen varieties of tomatoes, from Green Zebra to Brandywine. The crowds of shoppers had also thinned out, though the market was still busy. As I

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• Crying Foul in Debate Over 'Natural' Chicken

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Crying, Foul, Debate, Over, Natural, Chicken, Pilgrim S Pride Corporation, Tyson Foods Inc, U S Department Of Agriculture, United States, Minnesota, Hormel Foods Corporation, Amanda Eamich, Dennis Cardoza, Ray Atkinson, California, Texas, Bloomberg Lp, Sanderson Farms I

  Pumped up saltwater chickens are on the regulatory menu in Washington as advocates for "natural" food demand labels that reflect what the product actually contains.

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• Angela Kinsey expecting

  Published: November 26, 2007, 8:31 am

  Tags: Angela Kinsey, Angela Kinsey Pregnant, Angela Martin Pregnant, Angelakinsey, Angelakinseypregnant, Angelamartinpregnant, Dwight Shrute, Dwightshrute, Shrute Farms, Shrutefarms, The Office, Theoffice

  With NBC's The Office on hiatus due to the writer's strike, actress Angela Kinsey has moved on to her next big production. US Weekly reports that the actress who so plays the uptight Office ice queen is expecting her first child with television writer Warren Lieberstein in May. This is the couple's first child. My head is spinning at the

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