One of my friend’s 15 year-old daughters recently spent over 30 minutes trying to find hard-shelled tacos. You know the kind—the yellow corn shells standard in the Mexican food section? She found them, but it was the label that took forever; she wanted taco shells without a gluten-free label. In the infamous words of…
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Remember the first time you heard a comment judging your choice as a mom? Did the claws come out or were you able to turn your head? Mothers don’t just judge each other on how they care for their children—they also judge each other on how they care for their cattle. While I…
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My visit to South Africa is a memory I’ll carry for the rest of my life. Seeing giraffes cross the road, watching elephants play like my dairy calves and holding a baby lion was amazing. Harvesting grapes at a vineyard and sampling wine was a delight for the senses. But what is seared in my…
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Local food makes sense, right? Food that’s grown closer tastes better, travels fewer miles, and supports the community. My family likes to grow our own veggies, buy beef from a friend, and pick fruit locally and is quite partial to Michigan’s red haven peaches and Indiana’s cantaloupes. Likewise, my family also enjoys pineapples from Puerto…
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Ninety-two percent of Americans consider it “somewhat important” to “very important” that food be affordable, followed by the 91 percent who felt the same way about nutrition, according to the Science and Food Survey released October 2015 by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Nearly every food survey I’ve seen over the course of my…
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In a society where we embrace rodents as cartoon characters, give pigs a political voice, and fill advertisements with grinning cows, we seem to forget that animals do not have the same intelligence or abilities as humans. Animals’ lives deserve to be respected and valued—but they are not humans. As such, animals have different housing…
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