Meal Three: An open letter to Big Ag on marketing, PR and effective spin

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

Reblogged from One Hundred Meals:

- written by Ellen

Recently, Grant and I enjoyed a late second dinner with two conventional diary farmers at Telegraph in Chicago. One farmer is from the Central Valley of California — he uses rBST. The other from the very northwest tip of Washington — he doesn't use rBST because it is not legal where he farms. Their names, Ray Prock and Robert Smit.

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This is a powerful statement about the need to open conversations about what we do on our farms with the American Consumer

About McLerranMD

I am blessed to be the mother of three wonderful children, and I am married to Brian. Together with my husband and his father we farm several hundred acres in Moss, TN, where my husband is a 6th generation farmer. We raise Grass-Fed, Grain Finished Beef. We also raise squirrel dogs, horses, and currently 4-H pigs. In my day job I work off the farm as a doctor. I have run my own practice for the last 8 years, but I am changing jobs in January to that of a full time ED doctor. This will allow me to spend more time with my family.
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