KOL Foods Blog
August 16 2011 - Drought on the East Coast
As many of you have experienced, there has been a drought and heat wave on the East Coast. July was the hottest on record and unlike feedlots, our grass-based farms are not immune to these conditions. How the grass grows is determined by the weather and in the drought the grass has not been ... More! |
July 26 2011 - Bringing your Values to the Market and TableNatasha Rosenstock, friend to foodies, just wrote a terrific article for the Washington Jewish Week about bringing your values to the market and table.She profiled "Jews and theircommitments to Jewishfood values, includingconcern for workers’ rights, humanetreatment of animals, caring for th ... More! |
July 26 2011 - My first trip to the farm by Intern Joe
About two hours after making it out of the traffic-ridden streets of DC, I noticed the roads were no longer painted with oil slicks, but peppered with horse droppings. Then I saw the first of many horse-drawn buggies, and a great number of Amish families, strolling through the streets in s ... More! |
July 26 2011 - Chicken, hold the arsenicSoon, Americans may be eating a little less arsenic. On June 8th, Pfizer Inc. announced that it will stop making and selling roxarsone, an arsenic-containing additive in chicken feed, phasing out the compound by July 9th. Since 1944, arsenic-containing additives have been used ... More! |








