After Japan meltdown, Gulf oil spill, Canadians seek stronger environmental laws

By Ecojustice

Ecojustice is calling for better Canadian safeguards following Japan’s nuclear crisis. Worst case scenarios like nuclear meltdowns, offshore oil spills and major tar sands tailings pond breaches need to be assessed through strong federal laws that ensure Canada remains free from disasters like the ones that have occurred in Japan and the Gulf Coast. [Large size of image]

Federal law must require assessment of worst case scenarios such as nuclear meltdowns, offshore oil spills and tar sands tailing dam breaches says Ecojustice, Canada’s foremost non-profit environmental law group.

Joel Salatin: How to Eat Meat and Respect It, Too

Why this foodie farmer believes sustainable farming includes meat

By Madeline Ostrander
Yes! Magazine

Joel Salatin is no simple farmer. When he speaks, he at times takes on the air of a Southern preacher, philosopher, heretic, businessman, activist, or ecological engineer. Since Michael Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma and the film Food, Inc. brought him to fame as the man who raises meat the right way, Salatin has become a sought-after speaker. But he still spends most of his time on his rural Virginia farm—with the chickens, baling hay, moving cows from one paddock to another. He is a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic” and has a penchant for perplexingly long catchphrases. It is perhaps Salatin’s unwillingness to compartmentalize that has made him such a compelling moral voice for the food movement. For Salatin, farming is inseparable from ethics, politics, faith, or ecology.