The Weblog
This page contains news, event information, and other items added by Ian and Adam, the resident farmers at Old 99. We send out a message every week, but most are set with a delete date about two weeks later. I archive some of the posts if they have content other than weekly availability of produce and meat.
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Old 99 Farm, Week of Sept 1, 2013
This post expired on September 04, 2023.
Already Wednesday and I’m getting this memo out to you. Tomorrow is market day, but since that’s not a lot of leadtime for planning your shopping, maybe you want to order soon for NEXT week’s market! I am open this week too for the steadfast regulars.
Roasting chickens are looking good, growing nice and plump, fully feathered, scurrying around on the pasture where they have been located since 4 weeks of age.
Tomatoes are in abundance, including San Marzano Roma paste type. Also peppers, eggplants and onions.
Some excerpts from Aug 13 article by David Gumpert, US food rights activist.
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/08/12/should-you-be-able-to-buy-food-directly-from-farmers-regulators-do-not-think-so/
…Why are hard-working normally law-abiding farmers aligning with urban and suburban consumers to flaunt well-established food safety regulations and statutes? Why are parents, who want only the best for their children, seeking out food that regulators say could be dangerous? And, why are regulators and prosecutors feeling so threatened by this trend?
…To these individuals, many of whom are parents, safety means not only food free of pathogens, but food free of pesticides, antibiotic residues, and excessive processing. It means food created the old-fashioned way—from animals allowed to eat grass instead of feed made from genetically modified (GMO) grains—and sold the old-fashioned way, privately by the farmer to the consumer, who is free to visit the farm and see the animals. Many of these consumers have viewed the secretly-made videos of downer cows being prodded into slaughterhouses and chickens so crammed into coops they can barely breathe.
…As more consumers become intent on making the final decisions on what foods they are going to feed themselves and their families, and regulators become just as intent on asserting what they see as their authority over inspecting and licensing all food, ugly scenarios of agitated citizens battling government authorities over access to food staples seem likely to proliferate. It’s an unfortunate recipe for a new kind of rights movement centered on the most basic acts—what we choose to eat.
What do you think about that?
eat well and healthy
Ian