Speaking of CAFOs, Turner County is trying again to craft zoning regs that would allow Sonstegard Foods to concentrate six million laying hens just outside of Parker. Judge Tim…
Tag: food
All those good Brown County Republicans whose misinformed Islamophobia Jason Ravnsborg stoked last July should be going ape over the latest news about New Angus’s business plan for…
The Board of Regents heard a proposal this week from South Dakota State University to charge every student a food facility fee. Let’s call it the…
I hate to promote competition for the big South Dakota Blogosphere Democracy and Petition Picnic at my house in Aberdeen next Saturday, but if you don’t feel pedaling…
This spring bird flu cropped up at nine factory-poultry sites in South Dakota affecting 1.17 million chickens and turkeys. If you’d like to see chickens that did not get…
Charles Michael Ray reports on the groundbreaking for a big new housing development and community near Sharps Corner on the Pine Ridge Reservation: Officials with the USDA…
KELO-AM and meat industry propagandist Amanda Radke lead a story on bird flu with state veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven’s assurance that we have nothing to worry about:…
I’m not sure whether to read the closing of the Veblen Senior Meals program and the decline in participation in the program in neighboring towns as bad news or good…
If Pat Powers will squawk about backyard chickens as a bird flu risk, he’ll surely buzz about the dangers of backyard bees. At its Monday, May 4…
If Barack Obama and McDonald’s are working together, then the plan must be evil, right? The Tri-State Neighbor reports that McDonald’s is fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria by getting…