March 2007 Moos From The Farm

To encourage the folks at Stonyfield to reduce their impact on the environment, we pay them cash awards when they buy fuel-efficient cars. Even if your company doesn’t do the same, Uncle Sam just might. Visit the IRS website to learn about the tax breaks for which you could be eligible if you own a hybrid car, SUV or truck.

Protecting Biodiversity, Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods
Penny Profits for the Planet funding has helped to support the Rainforest Alliance, which works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods in more than 50 countries. Learn more about Profits for the Planet.

Apple Spice Muffins
Moist and light, these muffins make a delicious breakfast!

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Farm Bill Affects Us All
You may have heard that Congress is now reshaping our nation’s Farm Bill in preparation for its September renewal. But you may not know how profoundly it could affect your life and the lives of future generations.

I’m especially concerned about the impact the new Farm Bill will have on our nation’s family farms. The U.S. is currently losing farmland to development at a rate of two acres per minute! And as they say, asphalt is the final crop; once you lose farmland to development, you almost never get it back.
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Stop Junk Mail and Conserve Resources
Want to help conserve natural resources and keep your mailbox free of junk? For just a dime a day, Green Dimes will take your name off the mailing lists of direct mailers and catalog publishers, and plant a tree on your behalf
each month. [Read More]

Organic Says No to Cloning
In December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it had found that food products from cloned animals and their offspring are safe, but also invited comments about these findings from the public and asked producers to continue to voluntarily keep these food products off the market for now. Many saw these FDA announcements as a significant step toward the sale of food from cloned animals.
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A New Wave of Cultured Foods
Food makers are starting to put live active cultures, like the cultures in yogurt, into other foods such as milk, cereal and wellness bars. As yogurt’s popularity grows, more and more people are catching on to the health benefits of these cultures, also known as probiotics. And food makers are experimenting with bringing these benefits to other foods.
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Rachael Ray Magazine Says We’re the Best!
The March issue of Everyday with Rachael Ray names our Organic Whole Milk Plain Yogurt the best overall yogurt! The magazine’s panel of yogurt tasters tested dozens of varieties and found ours “flavorful even without added sweeteners.” One taster noted: “It actually tastes like real yogurt, not just like sugar.” Another said: “It’s rich, but not potent.” All the tasters found our texture smooth and creamy and agreed that our Organic Whole Milk Plain Yogurt had “great mix-in potential.”

[Learn about our yummy organic yogurts]

You’re Saving $22,786 in Energy Costs
In last month’s Moos from the Farm, we asked you to pledge to save energy at home, and a bunch of you responded.

So far, your Energy Star Change a Light Pledges represent savings of 227,856 kWh of energy and $22,786 in energy costs; and could prevent the emission of 359,560 pounds of greenhouse gases. Thank you, moosletter readers!

If you haven’t yet taken the pledge, it’s not too late to reduce your energy use and your impact on the environment. Click here to take the ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge.

Shift Check Out ShiftEnergy.com!
The website we’ve created for our new organic energy drink, Shift, is now up and running! The site has a cool, new look and feel of its own, and lots of interesting info about Shift and about ways you can help fight climate change. Visit ShiftEnergy.com! And look out for the flying cows!

Looking for a Green Car?
If you’re in the market for a fuel efficient car, check out "The Greenest Vehicles of 2007" a list recently published by the American Council for an Energy –Efficient Economy. Topping the green list for 2007 are the Honda Civic GX, the Toyota Prius and the Honda Civic Hybrid.

Use Your Purchases to Fight Climate Change
You’ll soon be able to use the new ClimateCounts.org website to check on the climate practices of the companies you know, and use your purchases to reward those companies that are leading the fight against climate change. [Read More]

Take a Peek at This Farm
Through our Bovine Bugle Blog, you can get a candid peek at the day-to-day challenges and rewards of life on a family farm.

With written posts and videos that he narrates himself, Organic Valley / CROPP farmer Jonathan Gates will make you feel like you’re there on the farm, coaxing a nervous cow across a slippery barn floor, fixing frozen water lines in the milkhouse, splitting wood for the stoves on a cold winter day….

“It’s not every day a farmer will give ya an inside peek!” writes one of our Bovine Bugle Bloggers. How true! Click here to get an inside peek at Jonathans’ farm.

“…there is an honesty to the work I’ve never found in any other place….”

-A Bovine Bugle blogger
commenting on farm work.

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