Jan
17
In Hunt of the Cider Apples
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Unless you know about some lost, abandoned orchard in your uncle’s backyard, you will probably have a tough time making a good home-made apple cider here in BC. That’s because, according to Andrew Lea’s UK Cider page, you need the right apples. And those apples just aren’t cultivated anymore.
Think of wine. A good wine grape [...]
Jan
15
Free Range Chickens
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An article from the Globe and Mail quotes a study that says free range chickens may not be that great. Apparently, “free range” isn’t defined by a regulatory organization and can simply mean chickens are kept in a big enclosure (but not in individual cages).
Jan
15
There were days when I used to hunt. It always made sense to me that if you were going to take the life of an animal, you’d do it yourself. The supermarket hid what was behind that piece of meat- a routinized, mechanical processing system where workers probably stop realizing they are actually killing living [...]
Jan
9
An older article from the Straight about how the new meat inspection rules are going to shut down a bunch of small butchers around the Province. I heard that the small ranch on the Queen Charlotte Islands, which used to feed the island, now has to ship live cattle off the island (7 hour ferry [...]
Jan
8
Interesting research by the Farmer’s Union. Since 1989, the meat packing industry has become dominated by a few massive companies. So much that beef farmers are getting half what they used to.