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...seem, it was only after World War II that the U.S. began confining cattle in factory farms that can fatten 50,000 head a year on high-calorie grain. Until then, cattle grazed on grass their full lives--as they still mostly do in Europe, South America, New Zealand and other beef-producing nations. The new U.S. system grew thanks to vast surpluses of government-subsidized corn and soybeans, produced with modern petroleum-based fertilizers. Traditionally, steers had taken three to four years to fatten on pasture. Today they grow to slaughter size in less than two years--an efficient...
...joined the 100-mile diet, inaugurating their own website, EatLocalChallenge.com This year they upped the ante, moving the test to the less bounteous month of May. "With gas prices spiking, people are concerned about our dependence on petroleum," says Locavores co-founder Jessica Prentice. "Why import apples from New Zealand when we can grow them nearby...
...years Chicagoan Michael O'Shea and his wife Frances had talked about traveling to Australia and New Zealand after their seven daughters grew up. When his wife died in October 1997, Michael resigned himself to never going. Then for Michael's 70th birthday, his daughters Anne, 36, a commercial pilot, and Bernadette, 37, a fund raiser, offered to take him on a trip Down Under funded by all the sisters. "My father never asked anything for himself," Bernadette says. "He was giddy for the next six weeks, watching audiotapes and reading books." Driving from place to place, often without hotel...
...Hirshberg is looking for other options abroad, including buying organic-milk powder from a co-op of 35 family farms in New Zealand to reconstitute in limited amounts for Stonyfield products. He is discussing ways to finance the changes with his prospective partners. Hirshberg has also persuaded Danone managers in four European countries to move into organic products this year, and he expects 11 more countries to follow in 2007, assuming they can find the cows. He hopes demand from Europe will stimulate the supply of organic milk here and abroad...
...predecessors now hang. “It would be fine with me if they would wait until after I was done, so I didn’t have to stare at it all the time,” she said. Having lived in the Philippines, New Zealand, and London, Simmons is a seasoned international scholar. Her favorite place in the world, however, is closer to home. “Cambridge, Massachusetts,” she answered. “If they fix the potholes.” —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...