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Backyard Farmers Can Practice Sustainable Farming

April 1, 2015 / Posted in: Farming Practices / Tagged: backyard farm, GMO-free chicken feed, sustainable farming

Believe it or not, food is both affordable and abundant today. Modern farming practices have made it so there’s no shortage of food on the shelves or in our bellies. Why then are so many individuals concerned with changing the way that we farm? The way big business typically farms isn’t good for our animals, and it isn’t good for us. Sustainable farming is an extremely important concept that all people should be aware of and budding backyard farmers should consider.

Sustainable farming is about much more than just raising chickens to provide for your own table, although that is a big benefit. Joel Salatin argues, “That today 50 percent of all the human edible food produced in the world goes into landfills or greenie-endorsed composting operations rather than through omnivores is both ecologically and morally reprehensible.” Can you disagree? There should be a way to cut down on our wasteful production.

Mendel’s Peas & Today’s Conversation Around GMOs

March 31, 2015 / Posted in: The GMO Debate / Tagged: healthy food, science of GMOs

In the grand scheme of things, genetics is a relatively young field. The innovative human spirit has taken science to new heights in only the past two hundred years or so. (That’s not really a whole lot of time.) Some of our more brilliant ideas have aided the human race in previously unimagined ways, while others have created even bigger problems. The flame that lit the GMO firestorm that concerns many, many individuals today was actually sparked back in in mid 1800s with the experiments conducted by a man named Gregor Mendel.

Bye-Bye Roundup Weed Killer: GMO-Free Livestock Feed Is Here To Stay

March 30, 2015 / Posted in: The GMO Debate / Tagged: health dangers of GMOs, healthy eating, herbicides and pesticides

We all want to eat naturally, to get food in the purest, healthiest form possible, but sometimes these desires are in direct conflict with a farmer’s need to produce a high yield for an ever growing consumer base. Nature is working against us in our quest to consume all-natural, as weeds and bugs attack our crops. Enter Roundup weed killer.

Those crops, in turn, need to feed our livestock, and we believe that those animals shouldn’t be stuffed full of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Hiland Naturals chicken feed, pig feed, turkey feed (and the list goes on) are GMO (and Roundup) free, and here is one reason why.