Category: Farming

Published on Mar 11, 2014 http://tedxmanhattan.org http://saveantibiotics.org How antibiotics are being used to compensate for the overcrowded, stressful conditions on industrial farms and how that’s creating superbugs that threaten public health. Lance Price is a public health researcher who works at the interface between science and policy to address the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance….Continue Reading Factory farms, antibiotics and superbugs: Lance Price at TEDx

Published on Mar 13, 2014 http://tedxmanhattan.org http://animalwelfareapproved.org Andrew Gunther is Program Director of Animal Welfare Approved. Since 2008, Andrew has spearheaded the program’s unprecedented growth. AWA farms are now recognized as being at the vanguard of high welfare, environmentally positive, and socially responsible agriculture. Combining an expert understanding of the supply chain beyond the farm…Continue Reading How big business had the right idea but went wrong: Andrew Gu

Published on Mar 8, 2014 Myra Goodman and her husband Drew founded Earthbound Farm on a 2 1/2 acre backyard garden in Carmel Valley, CA in 1984. Both were recent college graduates, “city kids” from Manhattan, who became self-taught farmers and intuitively resisted handling agricultural chemicals. Earthbound Farm has grown from humble beginnings to become…Continue Reading In praise of big organic: Myra Goodman at TEDxManhattan