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Thistle Hill alumni club…
….a match that began here at Thistle Hill but consummated at the Hendrix farm in South Carolina. THF 64’s new heifer by THF 31. This is now the third heifer in a row for 64. Grandma is still in our herd and also producing mostly heifers. The sire, THF 31, is a Thistle Hill Magic son. Magic seems to specialize in small calves that explode around Month 6.
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Thistle Hill alumni club….
….his name is Tomina Farms Gambler….the first son of our Thistle Hill Casino. (We always enjoy Regina Tesnow’s ability to come up with new names.) Mom is Virginia Q1 and she started an excellent line here before moving on to the Tesnow’s in Tennessee. Casino is a Rotokawa 243 son.
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The bugs win!!!
An important milestone that won’t get much press coverage: A top-level health officials say we have indeed “run the course” of antibiotics. Super-bugs have won the battle and there’s nowhere we can turn. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477273/Weve-reached-end-antibiotics-Top-CDC-expert-declares-miracle-drugs-saved-millions-match-superbugs-people-overmedicated-themselves.html Just a few days ago, there was an article…one of dozens we’ve seen…worrying about where all this is headed. But now, as we read in the first story above, we don’t have to worry about where we’re headed. We’re there. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/feeding-antibiotics-to-cows-is-bad-for-humans-but-congress-wont-stop-it-new-report-says/2013/10/22/ecd2de08-3afd-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html It’s the same group of Merchants of Death (Monsanto, et al) inflicting GMO on us that have, of course, blocked any attempt to control the use of antibiotics in feeding animals. Like hormones, antibiotics speed…
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It’s coming to this….
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Get the dirt out of food!
Sounds good in Washington. And in the Big Food board rooms. So the FDA is going to crack down on—who else—small farmers. The idea is we should all disinfect our produce and pack it in plastic. Okay, so there’s a big recall underway right now for vegetables that Big Food packed just that way. But nothing’s perfect. Small farmers, of course, can’t afford to buy the machinery to market food that way. And intelligent consumers are smart enough to know they don’t want it that way. The last thing they want is another chemical (not to mention plastic) on their veggies. But the feds….right up to the guy closest to…
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GMO….what’s it worth to you….
….$15-million dollars or more if you’re Monsanto, DuPont, or your neighborhood supermarket and their buddies. That’s how much they’re pouring into a fight in Washington State to prevent consumers from knowing whether they’re eating genetically-modified food. Most places in the world require a GMO warning label on food but not in the United States. (Somehow Democrats and Republicans always manage to get together on that!) However, the state of Washington is going around the fix in the capital of Washington (where Monsanto focuses its dollars) and is voting on a referendum making GMO labels mandatory. http://www.cornucopia.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/I-522.poster.1023.jpg