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Put Down the Kombucha and Pick Up a Crossbow

Put Down the Kombucha and Pick Up a Crossbow

The number of active hunters has been falling for decades. Because hunters have always led the effort and funding for wildlife and habitat conservation, declining hunter numbers is a major threat to wildlife. Non-hunters have no idea of what they miss by not enjoying wild game—venison, upland birds, waterfowl,

Can Eating Organic Food Lower Your Cancer Risk?

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Can Eating Organic Food Lower Your Cancer Risk?

Quoting the authors below,” …the most frequent consumers of organic food had 76 percent fewer lymphomas, with 86 percent fewer non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, and a 34 percent reduction in breast cancers that develop after menopause.” And, all these agricultural chemicals are bad for wildlife and habitat for the very same

Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts

Over 70% of all antibiotics used in the US are fed to confined livestock – cattle, pigs and chickens – and about 75% of those antibiotics are passed through to humans. This article discusses the serious health issues this practice creates. NOTE: this article below is from NYTimes.com. It was written

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This Farm Is Trying To Change The Future Of Organic Pork

It is possible to create a humane, self-sustaining, and profitable hog farming system and to make organic pork more widely available. NOTE: post initially appeared on RodalesOrganicLife.com on December 12, 2016 The Rodale Institute’s hog facility has one goal: Show farmers everywhere how to create a humane, self-sustaining,

Amish Farmers Point the Way for Desert Grasslands Restoration

Amish Farmers Point the Way for Desert Grasslands Restoration

These lessons, from organic farming, are completely portable to desert grasslands restoration. NOTE: originally published by The Atlantic October 6, 2014 By studying the immune systems of plants, they’ve developed a technique that eliminates the need for chemicals. “In the Second World War,” Samuel Zook began, “my ancestors were