Mom blogger MRS wonders why celebrities have become experts in the kinds of foods that are safe to eat and why it is so easy to believe them. She ask why celebrities are qualified after seeing Suzanne Somers recent attack of beef and hearing about Michael Pollan’s upcoming Oprah appearance.
Is agriculture playing defense or taking control of the game with offense? Are we driving the ball up the court with thought leadership, taking the good shots by having conversations and giving others in the agrifood system an assist? Michele points to the need for those in the business of raising food, feed, fuel and fiber to have a better game plan.
Kim Kotecki has spent the last two and half years being inundated with fear-based marketing about food and nutrition. This guest blogger highlights her confusion about food, frustration with all of the mom GUILT and what she learned by talking to a friend who knows agriculture – farming – firsthand.
Spouses marrying into farm families quickly discover there are many unwritten rules. Guest blogger MRS shares some of the unspoken rules she has stumble on in a farming family and questions whether secrecy is the best policy for farms or not.
Celeste Settrini has embraced social media as a key tool in telling agriculture’s story. This guest blogger agvocate, a commodities broker from a cattle ranch, shares her social media journey and the whole new world opened up by Facebook, Twitter and blogs.
Guest mom blogger MRS discusses the challenges of eating right while pregnant. She shares information on some of the foods to avoid and the kinds of foods to eat in order to have a healthy baby.
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