Yesterday I said I would write about the hay feeders that I've built for our sheep unless something interesting came up between then and now. Well, today I received three pieces of news that I want to write a bit about. First, the good news.
The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association is having its annual conference on March 4-5 in Granville. If you live in Ohio or a nearby state and you like to produce food or eat food, I highly recommend you take in this conference. The workshop schedule is out if this world. If you're going to be there please leave a comment.
The first bit of bad news was a link to a press release regarding proposed legislation in the state of Virginia. H.R. 982 "could eliminate the ability of the state’s residents to raise chickens and other fowl in the outdoors for eventual sale to consumers." The idea, supposedly, is to control live bird markets (there are none in Virginia) but it seems to be directed at bird flu and has the support of big agribusiness (surprise, surprise). Joel Salatin is on the front lines fighting this and has some great quotes in the story regarding bird flu.
This might be old news for some of you but on February 8th, it was leaked that the World Trade Organization had preliminarily ruled against the EU and several individual countries with regard to the moratorium against the importation of genetically modified food (GMOs), aka frankenfoods. Of course European consumers won't be forced to necessarily eat these foods but it seems to me that the dam holding back the worldwide flood of GMOs may have just been breached. As an hilarious aside, when I searched for the term "frankenfood" on Google, an ad at the side said, "Looking for Frankenfood? Find exactly what you want today on Ebay."
I'll leave you with that.
Weather today: 13°F/30°F snow flurries
tags: ohio, ecological, food, farm, chicken, bird flu, avian flu, salatin, gmo, frankenfood
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