Barbara H. Peterson on June 19th, 2009

“I understand the principles of civil disobedience, from Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King. And I’m willing to go to jail to defend the young people who, I hope, will still have a possibility of becoming farmers on a small scale in this supposedly free country. Thank you very much.” (Wendell Berry

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Barbara H. Peterson on June 12th, 2009

Click here to listen using your default audio program: Farmer’s Market Report – GMO

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Barbara H. Peterson on June 5th, 2009

Today, USDA, in protecting the biggest and dirtiest meat plants, continues to block trace-back of pathogens to the source plant, a very easy and inexpensive measure that could improve food safety tomorrow – and you say instead you want to track healthy animals back to the farm!

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Barbara H. Peterson on May 18th, 2009

Cattle producers are fighting for their lives to protect themselves and their families from the devastating costs, flawed duress, over-kill and destructive enforcement fees of NAIS.

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