Saving the Farm & Record Wolf Kill
Saving the Farm & Record Wolf Kill plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is trying to reverse a Supreme Court ruling from last year that gave the IRS first claim in bankruptcy reorganizations - making it harder for farmers to save their operations. But Grassley says the IRS has gotten in the way.
GRASSLEY: Before 2005 the IRS was able to collect ** banks liability generated during a bankruptcy reorganization and then too often when the IRS took its cut of capital gains there was no money left to pay other creditors like the local feed store.
One Idaho official calls it the greatest loss by wolves ever recorded in one instance in the state. Saturday night a pair of wolves chased through a herd of about 2,400 sheep south of Victor, Idaho. The result was a staggering 176 animals dead mostly from asphyxiation. Some 10 animals died of bites while one was partially eaten. Sheepherders heard the wolves but didn’t know the extent until they found the sheep piled up the next morning.
Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.
I know that it is done. I know that some people claim to actually like it. I personally don’t see myself ever knowingly doing it. The “it” I’m referring to is eating insects. Now I probably have unwittingly eaten a few little buggers in my day at the occasional picnic or during a mouth wide open sleep on a camping trip or something. But I have never done so intentionally, not in the way that was suggested earlier this month at the Future Food Salon hosted by Alimentary Initiatives, where a McGill University Ph.D. student unveiled his design system for raising insects as a sustainable food source for humans. The system is called Third Millennium Farming and envisions a future where waste streams are used in cities to raise a never ending supply of culinary insects. Bugs have often been touted as a great source of protein, but then so is a nice thick New York strip or a tasty pork chop. And I would much rather have a freezer full of beef, chicken, fish, and pork, and a pantry full of beans, seeds and nuts than a countertop cricket incubator. For those adventurous souls who want to eat bugs I say go for it, but it’s not a dietary staple that will be coming to my kitchen anytime soon.
Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
