December 27, 2006

Devon Beef a la Beef Wellington

The December 22, 2006 issue of Forbes magazine carries an article and recipe for individual Beef Wellingtons, using the chef’s beef of choice: Devons. The chef is Mark Budd, who works at the restaurant in the Stafford, an old English hotel in London’s St. James’s Place.Here is the link to the article, or you may read it in PDF format:

http://www.bakewellrepro.com/forbesarticle122206.pdf 

http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/21/perfect-pairing-stafford-forbeslife-cx_sb_1222perfectpairing_print.html

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December 10, 2006

National Animal ID System

by Ridge Shinn

There has been a lot of discussion about the USDA’s proposed National Animal Identification System

as a way for both producers and officials to respond quickly when there is a foreign animal disease outbreak. The controversy concerns the intent and the implementation of such a program. This program is ambitious and involves the enormous task of inserting a radio frequency ear tag into all animals including chickens.

Recently in a speech touching on this issue, Joel Salatin (www.polyfacefarm.com

) commented that in light of the fact that our government seems to be struggling with controlling illegal immigration, how can they think they can possibly implement a program of this scale? The federal government has already back-peddled from the position of making this program mandatory and is leaving it to the states to implement or not.

At the recent Acres USA conference (www.acresusa.com

) Chuck Walters, the grand old man of eco-agriculture, encouraged all of us to circulate his recent article entitled “Mark of the Beast.” Here we present the 4-page PDF version.

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