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If you want transparency, you’ll have to put up with reality
This was originally posted on our farm blog, The Hedonist Life, but is part of the broader discussion I try to host here on food ethics. *** In response to last week’s spot on Radio National Bush...
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Ethics of Scale
The following is what I had planned to say at last week’s Fair Food Future event at Fed Square, and while I may have deviated from the text, I think I managed to cover the key points below. A big...
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So long, & thanks for all the theory!
Eight years and still no degree. Eight years, hundreds of texts, thousands of words, millilitres of tears, a handful of original ideas, hundreds of friends (made and lost), and so many poems – and...
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Jonai Farmstead Salami – crowdfunding is community-supported agriculture!
Note: the following is cross-posted from our farm blog The Hedonist Life Last year 166 wonderful people believed in us enough to support our Pozible campaign to build our own butcher’s shop right here...
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No need for ag-gag laws when there’s radical transparency
The debate is raging once again around animal welfare activists trespassing on private property to obtain footage of conditions in intensive livestock farming. The activists’ stated aim is to expose...
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More on Transparency: Canaries in the Mine
I’ve already expressed my opposition to any proposed ag gag laws and related desire for more transparency, so today I’m going to be brief and blunt as I extend it. Intensive livestock farming needs to...
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On fair food &‘sustainable intensification’
When we promote ‘fair food’, ‘ethical farming’ or even the more watered-down ‘sustainable farming’, are we ergo suggesting some systems are not fair, ethical, or sustainable? Of course we are. Food...
View ArticleThe Regulation Diaries (4): PrimeSafe’s War on Fat
‘Bone stocks, pâté de tête, rillettes, and of course I want to render lard…’ I listed the products for The Auditor that I was planning to make once the new commercial kitchen was approved. ‘Oh, yes, I...
View ArticleCommunity-supported agriculture at Jonai Farms
[This was originally posted over on our farm blog – The Farmer & the Butcher] My interest in community-supported agriculture started in early 2000 as an eater in search of local, organic vegetables...
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Feeding livestock & weaning farmers off industrial grain
This is a cross post from the Jonai Farms blog: The Farmer & the Butcher, originally entitled ‘Feed: Weaning ourselves off industrial grain‘. I’ve spent the better part of what will soon be...
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