The Real Cost of Cheap Food

written by

Jeff Smith

posted on

May 20, 2016

It is important to understand the real cost of cheap food.  We live in a beautiful part of the world and many of us enjoy fishing, swimming, boating  and many other activities on Michigan's lakes and rivers.  Let's support a food system that takes into account the health of these things that we love by using animals to build soil fertility.  No waste runoff into lakes and rivers, humane treatment of animals, and oh yeah there is the fair treatment of producers too.....

Meat is Murdering American Rivers

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