John Oliver Tackles the Crushing Debt Piled on America's Chicken Farmers
John Oliver’s long segment last night dealt with the lives of American chicken farmers, which are, unsurprisingly, almost as bad as the lives of the chickens themselves.
Lady Farmer Agri-Smut Exists, E-I-E-Ohhhhhhhh
There's a new-ish sub-genre of romance novels written by and for ladies who love to get dirty — both literally and figuratively. Deemed "Rural Romance", the novels are most popular in Australia, where publishers are furiously adding collections of agricultural sexiness to their rosters.
Fountain Of Youth
[Paris, October 1. Image via Getty]
Were Dogs Originally Man's Best Meal? • Farmers In India Selling Wives To Pay Debts
• We're so used to thinking of dogs as companions that we often forget the most basic reason people buddy up to animals: Food. A new study suggests wolves were first domesticated in southeastern China for their meat. •
Friend Of A Farmer
[Sarajevo, August 26. Image via Getty]
Brussels Stouts
[Brussels, June 18. Image via Getty]
It's Not Easy Being Green
[Berlin, May 25. Image via Getty]
Foodies? Foopies? Coopies?
In the organic farming world, Amy Hepworth is a rock star. According to New York magazine, apparently foodies at Brooklyn's uber-smug Park Slope Coop are so obsessed with the farmer — known for her apples — that they line up before dawn to meet her truck and go to meet-and-greets. Although her family has farmed…
