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Ever read a story that makes you feel guilty, sad, and horrified all at once? This one from ABC News was that for me. Four journalism fellows working with ABC News through the Carnegie Corporation uncovered children as young as five picking blueberries in the fields in several states. These children, usually the children of migrant workers, are pressed into service because workers are paid by the number of buckets they fill, not any sort of hourly or living wage.
The story focuses on a particular farm in South Haven, Michigan. One of the most shocking visuals in the story Continue reading »
As the Byrds once sang, to everything there is a season, a time to plant, a time to reap. For about 22 million Facebook users, that time is right now. According to Zynga, the company who created Facebook’s FarmVille application, that is the number of people who log on at least once a day to till their fake land and harvest their imaginary crops in the online game. Continue reading »
They say that if your budget can’t handle All Organic All the Time, the one most important thing to buy organic for your kids is milk. And yet, at $6 per gallon, it’s a tough one, even if the rest of the cart is full of bargains. I know I’m grateful for the not-organic-but-not-quite-conventional option of No Hormones/No Antibiotics milk myself, and that–at roughly half the price of organic–is what my family drinks.
And yet, I can’t help but feel for the family dairies that are suddenly seeing red after making the difficult and expensive switch to organic milk production.
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