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nice post!

Around here, we're still pulling buckets from the maple trees and sitting around the stove boiling it down. While asparagus season is still well off here in norhtern Wisconsin, I want to "huzzah" your insight and dedication. I am part of a small grocery store here called Just Local Food Cooperative. We also get plenty of customers, like right now, that want asparagus. It's spring! Why not? People come in and say "I want asparagus". It just doesn't work to say "sorry, wait a month, then we'll have local". So we are also forced to source asparagus best we can, which comes to us from California as well, through a cooperative supplier. At least it's in season on our continent...On The Age of Asparagus dawned in Roman times, but the time to eat it is now posted 1 year, 7 months ago 1 Response

it ruins cheese too

Distiller grains have also been linked to funky cheese in our area, the heart of the dairy state. Farmers around here started to notice their cheese had bad flavor. A few more months of researching the problem led back to the introduction of distillers grains in the diet of the animals producing milk for the cheese.

The saddest part is, several of these farmstead cheesemakers lost EVERYTHING and are off the farm because it took too long to discover, and there is no recourse. All because someone sold them industrial byproduct as feed from the local ethanol plant. It is too late to save these farmers, but hopefully more can wake up and prevent more destruction of our delicate local food chain.On Let cows eat vaccines along with distillers grains posted 1 year, 10 months ago 4 Responses

rBGH labeling like that is still good for Monsanto

I would be careful in saying they "reversed the ban".

I help run a small grocery store here in the Dairy State (Wisconsin, not California, I guess I should call it the Cheese State) that sells local food, with a preference for organics and other good agricultural and animal husbandry practices. We carry organic butter and butter labeled as rBGH free (with the lengthy disclaimer like the one they are now requiring in Pennsylvania). To the average consumer, these "RBGh Free" labels are VERY confusing. Most think, hmm, what's that mean, and look at the fine print, and see what Monsanto forced the good companies to write - "not proven to be any different than the other stuff" and wonder why it matters, then? It makes us look bad, which is exactly what they (monsanto) wants.

When I first started college in 1991 I participated in a local farmer/university action - a milk dump - in protest of the rBGH laws and I didn't have a clue as to the power of corporations at that point. Here we are over 15 years later and consumers are still confused about artificial hormones, badly informed really, and monsanto is still ripping off farmers and manipulating our government for their profit.On Pennsylvania will allow hormone labels on dairy products posted 1 year, 10 months ago 3 Responses