The New York Times had an op-ed piece in April in which the author claimed that free range pigs were very very bad for your health.  Much more so than industrially raised and slaughtered ones.
Hmmm…maybe not so much.
The author, James E McWilliams, who also believes that people who eat mostly local foods are endangering the food supply (WHAT?!), used a study funded by – you guessed it – the National Pork Board to back up his claims.  And according so some, he misinterpreted the study anyway.

You can read the response of SlowFoodUSA here if you’d like more details, but for …read more

This Earth Day I’m going to run crazy through my yard and pick dandelions from the vast weed garden in my yard and boil some potatoes (that I didn’t grow because that would require a green thumb whereas dandelions do not) and whip up some DandePotatoes.
Ok, maybe not. But my father’s wife Anni did. No kidding. A couple weeks ago they were in town and Anni asks me if I was going to use my dandelions. Really, it looked like we had a garden of them out there. (And it dawned on me our fruitful supply was likely due to …read more