Katrina, Global Weather and Food Choices

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Reading Time: 2 minutes by Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton Who’d-a thunk that food choices would have an effect on global climate change (better known as global warming?) Would you believe that what people eat in this country has contributed to ice caps melting, wildfires, tornados and – yes – hurricanes? Have we been eating our way into bigger and bigger storms, […]

Food Security

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Reading Time: 3 minutes by Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton Most folks in the developed world have not had to give much thought to it. We take available food for granted. We go to the grocery store, and there it is in all its glory. Grown, harvested, prewashed, processed and brightly packaged. No worries. But for 70 percent of the world’s human […]

On Animal Rights and Ethics

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Reading Time: 3 minutes by Justin Lelia After reading “Empty Cages” by Tom Regan, I called my Father to talk about the inhumanity of animal slaughter. After agreeing that animals have rights, my Father told me of a customer who hunted and killed a 1400 lb Woodland Buffalo with a bow and arrow. My Father wondered how a person […]

Coops are Fun and Perfect for the Holiday Season!

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Reading Time: 2 minutes by Linda Bower “The Organic Buying Club of South Florida currently contributes to the health of families throughout the South Florida area by making available to them fresh, superior quality, and certified organic produce at reasonable prices.” That’s the quote right off of the flyer that Jayne Rosenbaum uses to promote the business that she […]