Our concern was that what has been a heritage occupation or hobby in this country would be destroyed in the paranoia of the avian flu story.

I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.