USDA’s guidance on meat labeling: still voluntary, alas.
Food Politics
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Voluntary means that producers can voluntarily ignore such guidelines. Plenty of evidence suggests that many do.
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What’s in a Name? Food Labels, Explained
Modern Farmer
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Do you know what “cage-free” means? How about “free range”? Photography by Lena Beck) Free Range: This means that the animal spends part of its time outside, uncaged. Farms must provide proof to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service of free-range conditions. Pasture-raised”?
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Photo Essay: Standing in the Gaps With Feed Durham
Civil Eats
MARCH 12, 2025
We pay tribute to the animals and plants that die to nourish our bodies with spices, loving energy, and food-preparation processes that accentuate natural flavor. Bags contain cabbage, kale, collards, sweet potatoes, red potatoes, onions, squash, spices, bread from Ninth Street Bakery , and free-range eggs, among other things.
Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time
Modern Farmer
APRIL 8, 2024
Since 2018, they have been producing and selling free-range chicken eggs and meat on the farm’s idyllic 40 acres. Easements can be amended and altered slightly, but it can be a very challenging process,” says Lewis. They were then able to retire, having leveraged the equity in their property.
Eating to save the planet: How hard could it be?
Sustainable Food Trust
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The challenge, for most meat-eaters out there, would be the significant reduction in the amount of pork, chicken and eggs available (due to the move away from permanently housed flocks and herds that are fed grain and imported protein feeds, to free-range, high-welfare systems). Complex food labelling also adds to the confusion.
How To Sell To Restaurants As A Farmer
Farmbrite
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Dont shy away from free samples Buying wholesale is the easier option for most chefs, so youll need to convince them your product is worth the change in routine. Free samples speak louder than words, so bring along a dozen free-range eggs or that almost-too-crisp arugula to your prospective meetings.
“HOLY CHICKEN”
The Lunatic Farmer
APRIL 13, 2022
He consulted food experts, restaurant gurus throughout the process and the bottom line is that he opened his restaurant in Cleveland, Ohio using the interior walls to proclaim that the whole thing was fake, a charade. He hired a factory farmer in Alabama who had one house out of 15 empty to raise his 3,000 chickens for him.
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