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Animal Production

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Beef Experts Discover New Cut of Steak

    If there was a Nobel prize for meat, the team of researchers at Oklahoma State University's Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center (FAPC) would probably be a shoe-in this year. The group has discovered an entirely new cut of beef they've named "The Vegas Strip Steak," which is being hail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Dennis Hedgecock: The Oyster Is His World

    One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Dennis Hedgecock wants to breed a better oyster to feed the world. Since 99 percent of the biosphere's volume is sea water, it's time to put it to work. Oysters are a nearly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Kardashian Sisters' Fur Peddling at Their DASH Stores Draws Ire of Animal Rights Activists

    The Kardashian sisters can't escape the sour taste of haterade these days. First there was a movement to get Kim to pay more taxes (she saw a California rate of 10.3 percent in 2010 even though she made $12 million). Then there was the post-divorce-announcement boycott of all things Kim (and, theref ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Q & A With Beekeeper Brent Edelen: Where Honey Went Wrong, What "Wildflower" Often Really Means Industry Changes

    Beekeeper Brent Edelengrampashoney.com​Brent Edelen, a sixth generation raw honey producer in Alamosa, Colorado, makes some of the best honeys we've ever tasted. Like grass-fed beef, you can literally taste the terroir in the honey that Edelen makes under the Grampa's Gourmet label. In part, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Rancher Q & A: Veterinarian Lowell Novy On Humanely Raised Cattle, How Grass-fed Beef Is Like Wine The Ongoing Frozen Debate

    After all of that Novy Ranches grass-fed eyeball farmers market talk, we had to call up the Northern California ranch's owner, Lowell Novy, a Northern California by way of Nebraska veterinarian turned cattle rancher. A mouthful? Sure. But a good one. Novy was more than happy to chat -- honestly -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    U.S. Still a Dumping Ground for Crappy Honey, Study Finds

    Flickr/Joelk75​ They're calling it "honey laundering." More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores is filtered to the point where it contains no pollen -- which would make it flunk the quality standards set by most of the world's food safety agencies, according to testing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    Save Bats Bees by Showing Your (Ingestible) Support

    backwardsbeekeepers.comThe Yellow Carpet​Nothing against birds, but bats and bees -- key cogs in our food pollination wheel, among other things -- have had it rough the past few years with white nose syndrome and Colony Collapse Disorder. On the positive side, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Faux Shark Fin Soup: A Recipe From the Monterey Bay Aquarium

    Courtesy of the Monterey Bay AquariumFaux shark fin soup.​Now that the California Shark Protection Act, a bill that would prohibit the sale, consumption and trade of shark's fin -- and with it shark fin soup -- sits on Governor Jerry Brown's desk, waiting for his approval (probably), here's a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Cargill's Second Turkey Recall in Six Weeks

    taleitalei/flickrTurkey burger.​ A turkey burger isn't sounding so good right now. Even if no immediate evidence suggests salmonella-laced ground gobbler has, as of this weekend, infiltrated California's stores, the Minnesota-based company Cargill Inc. has issued its second recall in six week ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Backwards Beekeepers, L.A.'s Bee Rescue Service

    ​ Modern talk of bees tends to dwell on their deficiencies more than their benefits. Colony Collapse Disorder. Fatal bee-sting allergies. Killer bees both Africanized and Saturday Night Live. But honey is a food that keeps indefinitely, much like the Metro trains that buzz incessantly on this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Raw Milk Controversy Nothing New

    Laurie AvocadoClosed Alta-Dena Drive Thru Dairy, Lincoln Heights​People holding signs supporting raw milk, others giving testimonials of how drinking it has benefited their health. Were these scenes from the Thursday downtown protest over the raid on Rawesome Foods?, no, they occurred in Janua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Crying Over Spilt Milk: Rawesome Volunteer Speaks Out on Yesterday's Raid Protest Rally

    Tambako/Flickr​More details are emerging about yesterday morning's raid on Rawesome, a members-only raw food collective whose owner was arrested and jailed for the heinous crime of peddling raw milk. Most absurd and appalling is the fact that the raid was the result of a year-long undercover o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Double Take: Humane Society Partners with United Egg Producers for Chicken Welfare

    Felicia FriesemaEggs from Kendor Farms at the Hollywood market.​ In a surprisingly unprecedented move, the nation's largest egg farming cooperative, representing, according to their website, "95% of of all the nation's egg-laying hens," has partnered with the Humane Society of the United State ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    May 5, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Judges Cochon 555's Traveling Pork and Wine Bacchanalia

    Felicia FriesemaEggs from Kendor Farms at the Hollywood market.​ In a surprisingly unprecedented move, the nation's largest egg farming cooperative, representing, according to their website, "95% of of all the nation's egg-laying hens," has partnered with the Humane Society of the United State ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Q & A With Amber Huffman: Bourbon Blunders, Derby Cocktails Cooking For Jess Jackson At His Kentucky Racehorse Farm

    AHuffmanHuffman's Backyard View Yesterday (Literally)... Yeah, We're Jealous ​This weekend's Kentucky Derby may mark the beginning of summer mint julep season, but for Amber Huffman, the private chef at two Lexington, Kentucky thoroughbred racehorse farms, Saturday is all about wine. "Mint jul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Price Fixing Lawsuit: Egg Cartel Not Giving Consumers A Break?

    Several of the country's largest egg producers stand accused of participating in a scheme that drove up the wholesale price of eggs by 40%. And they did it under the guise of treating animals more humanely: By systematically killing off egg-laying hens, supposedly to increase cage space for the rema ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Project Fishmap, Monterey Bay Aquarium's Newest App: Almost as Much Fun as Angry Birds

    ​Here's something new to add to your phone if you're a seafood lover. No, not a bluefin tuna version of Angry Birds, although that would be kind of fun. Slightly more useful is Project FishMap, a new feature of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch app, which lets you tag any of more than ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Ash Cloud Over Europe Disrupts Travelers and Fish Industry

    The airplanes over Europe may be lifting along with the volcanic ash cloud -- although perhaps not for long -- but the jammed airways have meant that not only travelers have been held up, but many products as well. Exports of Norwegian salmon and Icelandic fresh fish have been curtailed or halted, c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2010

    LOVE TO LOBSTER, BABY

    The airplanes over Europe may be lifting along with the volcanic ash cloud -- although perhaps not for long -- but the jammed airways have meant that not only travelers have been held up, but many products as well. Exports of Norwegian salmon and Icelandic fresh fish have been curtailed or halted, c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Brazilian Cattle Exporter Signs Pact with Greenpeace After Deforestation Report

    Yesterday the Brazilian beef exporter Bertin reported that it had signed a pact with Greenpeace to refuse to buy cattle from deforested parts of the Amazon. Greenpeace claims that the Brazilian Amazon cattle industry is the largest driver of deforestaton in the world, responsible for 14% of the wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Small Farms Exempt from New Egg Safety Regulations

    Ah, government bureaucracy. Since the discovery in the mid-1980s that table eggs contaminated with the bacteria Salmonella Enteritidis were making thousands of people sick, food regulators and lawmakers have been quibbling over how to address the problem. On July 9, they finally did something about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Dairy Crisis Sends 101,000 Cows To Slaughterhouse

    If lush, green, rolling hillsides dotted with healthy cows chomping on grasses seems like some kind of pastoral fantasy, the reality is turning into a nightmare for California dairy farmers.

  • Calendar

    January 15, 2009

    Battle of the Literary Sexes

    If lush, green, rolling hillsides dotted with healthy cows chomping on grasses seems like some kind of pastoral fantasy, the reality is turning into a nightmare for California dairy farmers.

  • Eat+Drink

    September 25, 2008

    Gills Gone Wild: Why Free-Swimming Salmon Is Best

    Tastes great, less environmentally chilling

  • Eat+Drink

    May 22, 2008

    Eat, Like, a Pig

    Where to go for the whole hog

  • News

    July 19, 2007

    The Last Egg Man

    Defending his poultry farm, Ken Arno faces off against the Valley’s king of rezoning

  • Stage

    January 11, 2007

    Swine Song

    Greg Kotis, on his agri-eco farce, Pig Farm

  • News

    May 11, 2006

    Mad Politicians' Disease

    Democrats’ mooing is what’s wrong with this race for governor

  • Eat+Drink

    November 17, 2005

    Two Little Piggies

    Democrats’ mooing is what’s wrong with this race for governor

  • News

    January 6, 2005

    The Shrimp Factor

    Did disappearing mangrove forests contribute to the tsunami’s severity?

  • News

    August 12, 2004

    Where’s the Beef?

    Rustling makes a comeback in California

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