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...stew meat, or apples are tumbled into display bins, the information is rarely passed on to customers. That suits the giant slaughterhouses, wholesalers and grocery chains, which earn higher profits on cheaper imports. But U.S. farmers, claiming they lose an advantage with buyers who may be worried about mad-cow disease from Canadian beef or hepatitis A from Mexican vegetables, are fighting for laws to require that food be labeled with its country of origin. In surveys, 80% of consumers say they prefer to buy American. "Meat bears a USDA-inspected sticker, but that doesn't mean it is American...
...turn, for a second the car was facing sideways. Without road markings and the tarmac to reflect their beams, my headlights faded into the vast expanse of emptiness. For a moment, I saw nothing. No trees, no bushes and not one familiar contour of a sheep or cow behind the fences of a paddock. The illuminated dials in the dashboard seemed all there was in the world and the hum of the engine its only heartbeat...
...points me to the compost heap, where there should be no shortage of “verms.” The sort of fishing I’ve done has always been with lures or not-live bait. After shoveling through four feet of partially decomposed fruit, hay and cow shit I faintly glimpse ugly translucent wiggles—not the cute pink type I used to step on in my driveway after a rain or the kind I opened up in freshman bio—but worms who seem like they’d be more comfortable eating...
When Roger Federer won Wimbledon last year, Swiss tennis officials presented him with Juliette, a prize cow. But you don't have to be a tennis star to own a fine Swiss bovine. Nina, Beate and Britta are big brown cows that spend their days grazing the picturesque Alpine meadows above Brienz, in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland-and they're for rent...
...would anyone want to rent a cow? Say "cheese"-several varieties produced from your protégé's milk will, by summer's end, be yours. Last year the cows' owners, farmers Paul and Helga Wyler, decided to beef up their income by renting out the bovines. This year they are leasing their 100 cows. You select a cow (pictures can be seen at www.kuhleasing.ch), and pay the leasing fee of $300 as well as the additional $13 per kg of cheese your cow will produce during the summer, amounting to about 70-120 kg. In the fall...