Riverview Farms

Riverview Farm is one of the many grassfed farms in Georgia.
They have pigs and cows, in addition to growing produce. Riverview farms has a Farm Mobile which is "a mobile farmers market on wheels. Inside, shoppers choose from shelves stocked with organic locally grown produce, free-range eggs, breads from H&F Bread Co., our own grits, polenta, and cornmeal, and sustainable meats. Other regular items on board include cheese from local food artisans like Sequatchie Cove Farm, and pesto from Hope's Gardens. Farm Mobile has everything you need for an all-local dinner!" Farm Mobile's freezer includes grassfed beef and Berkshire pork, all from Riverview Farms. They also stock whole pasture-raised chickens raised by White Oak Pastures.
It's located in Ranger, GA. 
http://www.grassfedcow.com/

Ch. 3 Eating Animals

In this chapter, Foer defines and discusses many words one might hear involving animal welfare.  Some of the ones that stood out were: battery cage, broiler chicken, bycatch, CAFO&CFE, downer, KFC, and PETA

battery cage: is the cage in which a layer(the chickens whose purpose is to produce eggs) stays in. they are about the size of a sheet of paper or less! can you imagine?

broiler chicken: are the meat chickens-what we eat. get this- broiler chickens use to have a lifespan of 15-20yrs now it is only six weeks because their growing rate has increased 400%!!!
-what if they arent either type? well....over 250 million chicks are killed every year because in factory farms they serve no purpose

bycatch: sea creatures caught by accident. here's an interesting fact "26 pounds of other sea animals were killed and tossed back into the ocean for 1 pound of shrimp"

CAFO&CFE: CAFO stands for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation a.k.a. factory farm-CAFO's harm animals illegally says Foer even though the CAFO was created by the Environmental Protection Agency. What's up with that? Also, the CFE makes it ok to raise animals in any way as long as the method is commonly practiced within the industry

downer: an animal that collapses from poor health and is unable to stand back up.  Foer visited Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York http://www.farmsanctuary.org/ nothing is grown or raised, rescued animals are just kept here until they die because they are usually genetically mutated

KFC: it buys nearly 1 billion chickens a year! It claims to treat their chicks well but workers were caught on video doing terrible things.

PETA: PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and is the largest animals rights organization in the world. One time they distributed "unhappy meals" with bloodied, cleaver-weilding ronald mcdonald! hahahaha. and tossed a dead raccoon at Vogue's, the fashion magazine, editor!

Nature's Harmony Farm

This is a local farm in Elberton, GA.  it is owned and operated by Tim and Liz Young. Tim and Liz started farming once they learned the terrible realities of how animals were treated in factory farm settings.  They tried to put animals back into their natural habitats where they could live. "The sustainable farm offers raw milk cheese, woodlot rare-breed pork, rare-breed pasture raised rabbits, heritage turkeys, true free-range hens, grass-fed beef, grass-fed lamb, organic honey and pasture raised ducks."
http://www.naturesharmonyfarm.com/natures-harmony-story/

Check out their blog also
http://www.naturesharmonyfarm.com/grass-fed-meat-farm-blog/

Locate Grassfed Farms in GA!

Jo Robinson, author of the book Pasture Perfect, has a website where she talks animal welfare and farming and says it is the "#1 website for grass-fed food & facts" www.eatwild.com
She researches the benefits of eating grass-fed foods.

She also has a useful gadget to help find pasture-based farms that sell grass-fed meat and dairy products
http://www.eatwild.com/products/georgia.html

Animal Welfare Expert

Temple Grandin, an animal welfare expert, thinks that major dairy producers need to improve their standards of their suppliers.  Big dairy companies are having bad outcomes with too many lame cows.

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20110222-animal-welfare-expert-prods-dairy-producers.ece

Dean Foods is on of the companies Grandin calls out.  here is a link to some of Dean Food's products
http://www.deanfoods.com/brands.aspx
recognize any?