01 Sep 2007
USDA requires large dairy to reduce herd size

Read and understand why the "organic" label says little, means nothing and does less. The converse is also true: all that is gold does not glitter. If you want to eat well and buy products made in accordance with your standards, you have to educate yourself and make your choices carefully, and not depend on what the seller tells you in advertising.

Cornucopia, Wis. - The USDA issued an urgent news release Wednesday evening announcing enforcement actions taken against the Aurora Organic Dairy, based in Boulder, Colo., the nation’s largest organic factory-farm operation.

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Has a mythical beast turned up in Texas?

Now wouldn't this be interesting? Especially if it turned out to be a bastard coyote mix.

AP - Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it.

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