The pot calling the kettle black

The pot calling the kettle black, The November issue of Vanity Fair headlined an article that attempted to discredit our national beef industry for what the author, an obvious organic advocate deemed was unsafe Livestock and meat handling practices at feedlots and packing houses. The piece reeking of BSE Sensationalism tried to convince consumers that commercial beefs' habitat was one of filth and feces, while organic cattle lived in bucolic pastures. While I addressed the mistruths in a national column, I couldn't contain my delight when a recent New York Times Magazine article titled High Priest of the Pasture touted one organic farmers' practice of wintering cattle in a barn on a growing manure pile mixed with corn and decomposing hay, then using it as pig feed. In this instance the manure pile was described as a sweetly decomposing" heap consumed by "pig-aerators" rather than a cheap farmer fattening pork on feces. Interestingly a little different take than if a reporter would find these conditions in a feedlot. I'm Susan Allen with Food Forethought Source: New York times Magazine Living Spring 2005 High Priest of Pasture by Alessandra Sanguentti