Word: grass
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...Federer is No. 1, Nadal No. 2--have met in two major finals this summer, with the dirtballing specialist Nadal spoiling Federer's bid for the Grand Slam by beating him on the clay at the French Open. Federer, in turn, held serve against Rafa on the drag-strip grass at Wimbledon to win his fourth straight title at the fortnight...
...mercenary and munitions companies getting rich off of U.S. Defense Department contracts. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers will open the same innovative way Greenwald's previous documentaries have screened - in a select few theaters starting September 8th, a DVD release mid-month, and later thousands of grass-roots "house parties" where the documentary video is played for invited friends and neighbors. TIME's Jeffrey Ressner spoke with Greenwald as two of his films - the one he directed, another he produced - appear on the scene...
...difference at Stone Barns is that the chickens - and the turkeys, and the pigs, and the lambs, and the calves - eat the farm's grass rather than fattier, less healthy grain feed purchased from a supplier. The grass is carefully maintained by rotating the animals on it - veal calves eat the tastiest grass and drop their manure on the remainder. Chickens then come in and clean the calf manure by foraging in it; they also eat some of the less desirable grass. Chickens leave their own manure, which helps the grass rejuvenate. Unlike animals raised in feedlots and pens, Stone...
...This is Lesson 3, a point that writer Michael Pollan makes in his influential book The Omnivore's Dilemma, which was published earlier this year: to produce the most flavorful meat in the most sustainable way, livestock farmers may need to think of themselves instead as grass farmers. ?When you manage the grass incorrectly, you have to supplement, whether it's antibiotics to keep [the animals] healthy or grain to fatten them up,? Barber told me as the rain began to fall. ?And the reason that the industrial system looks at [grass-farming] as a crazy system is that...
...later, as I donned some of Barber's dry clothes, I realized I wasn't entirely convinced that Stone Barns' complexly symbiotic, intensely managed system could work on a large scale. Not because it would necessarily require a Rockefeller to fund it - as Pollan points out, there are other ?grass farmers? around the country who are succeeding with the help of proselytizing websites like eatwild.com. But not every farm will have a Dan Barber behind it - an obsessive, a guy who won't come in from the rain so he can show you the compost pile...