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The Pre-Industrial Pig

By Scott Gordon November 17, 2008

[img_assist|nid=152|title=incorrect date pig flyer 08|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=0|height=]we were planning on hosting this years pig dinner on nov 1st. the pigs are ready, we have some good venue options in madison were finalizing and then we decided to go to paris. that being said i am very excited about where we are in the project and when we do host the dinners ( probably the 8th of nov) they will be great. below is the flyer that we had done for the dinner, its probably unwise to post it with the incorrect date but well just correct you when you call. we will also be helping tory miller with a dinner he is doing on the 18th...? not to mention some ideas of other dinners

Timothy Vollmer is one My 2008 CC Heroes

Tim Vollmer was one of the founding partners at Underground Food Collective, a few years ago he left to attend Grad School at the University of Michigan to get a degree in Information Sciences. I came across this link to a post at Creative Commons where they talk about all the good work that Tim did while he interned their last summer. We are proud of Tim and miss him dearly as he continues to do good work in DC for the ALA.

http://www.macsac.org/bikethebarns/
Underground Food Collective is happy to announce that registration for Bike the Barns is now open. We had an extremely successful ride last year and are looking forward to the ride again this year. Here is information from the website.

Bike the Barns: MACSAC's Second Annual Tour de CSA will be held Saturday, September 27, 2008. This exciting bike tour will take riders to community supported agriculture (CSA) farms around south-central Wisconsin while raising money to support the Partner Shares Program.

Last week, some restaurants began pulling tomatoes from their menu because of an outbreak of salmonella. How do tomatoes get salmonella, you ask? Good question. The one-word answer, as reported by Slate: poop. Salmonella is a bacterium that lives inside the intestines of animals.

Says Slate, "Livestock animals, especially when kept in large numbers in confined spaces, can contract salmonella and carry the bug without showing any symptoms at all. Infected cows, pigs, and chickens shed the bacteria in their waste, which is sometimes used to fertilize nearby fields." Essentially, large-scale factory farming is what's making your tomato make you sick.

Check out this interesting article from the New York Times food section entitled Chef's New Goal: Looking Dinner in the Eye. The piece discusses the push by chefs, most notably Jamie Oliver, to better educate the eating public about where we get our food, how the animals we eat are raised (and killed), and how much we're willing to pay for our dinner.