The Guanajuato Livestock Fair (Expigua)
I’m a sucker for agricultural fairs. And on Friday I had a stupendous afternoon at the State Livestock Fair in Irapuato, about a forty minute drive from where I live.…
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The consensus of nutritionists at the end of the nineteenth century was clear. It was the meat eaters. But important minority movements (sometimes derisively called the nuts and the berries)…
Read moreSlaughterhouse Problems
We hear so much about the problems of the big US slaughterhouses that it’s easy to forget that small ones are not necessarily ideal either. This November the political leaders…
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