Monthly Archives: December 2014
Agriculture, Petaluma
An Emerging Ag Incubator for the Petaluma Fairgrounds
by Christopher Fisher •
Petaluman David Powers presented an intriguing idea to the Petaluma City Council at their December 1, 2014 session during the public comment period prior to going into closed session. Courtesy of Mr. Powers, here are his comments in their entirety. More to come on this in the near future. Public Comment, Closed Session December…
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Benefit
Shop Whole Foods Market Today & Support Daily Acts + Pick Up a Calendar As Well
by Christopher Fisher •
If you have the need to do some grocery shopping and are willing and able to do some of that shopping today at Whole Foods Market, 5% of your purchase will go directly to Daily Acts. They’re open until 9 pm today. Daily Acts is our extraordinary local NPO which has been busily encouraging us…
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Toons, Uncle Noam
Happy Birthday Noam Chomsky
by Christopher Fisher •
by Dwayne Booth, a.k.a. Mr. Fish
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Animal Husbandry, Industrial Agriculture
North Carolina Factory Chicken Farmer Exposes Perdue’s Version of “Humanely Raised”
by Christopher Fisher •
Fairmont, North Carolina chicken farmer Craig Watts watched Perdue corporation chairman Jim Perdue in a company promotional video a while back and was shocked by what he saw. “Doing the right thing is things like treating your chickens humanely,” said Perdue in the video. Watts, who raises over 700,000 chickens annually for the corporation, and…
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Human Rights, Slavery, U. S. History
Harriet Tubman Makes Her Escape, December 6, 1849
by Christopher Fisher •
On this day in 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from her owners and a life of slavery, subsequently helping to free hundreds of others, altering the course of U.S. history and inspiring countless others to embrace the universal rights of all human beings.
read more here: http://nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm
