20100209 agchat farm efficiency opinion links

What I got from #agchat tonight: Farmers & ranchers consider consumers "misinformed" — "no-compromise activists" — "ignorant" — "uneducated" — who need their "hot button" issues identified so that they can become "educated. #Agchat wake up & stop hiding from the real problem!

MILK occupies a special place in our lives and language. It has been dubbed “nature’s most perfect food,” and we speak sentimentally of the “land of milk and honey” and the “milk of human kindness.”

It’s interesting the kinds of questions I hear when people find out my personal and professional interests involve livestock production. Just last night, I was having dinner with some ladies involved in the fair queen pageant when one asked about rumors she’s heard about hormones in her food. Being health conscious, I’ll say I’ve done a decent amoung of reading on the subject. In my search for scientific facts, this is what I’ve learned.

Public health officials are worried that the widespread use of antibiotics on healthy animals may be putting people at risk. Katie Couric investigates this potential health threat.