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		<title>Consider the Slaughterhouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blog reader and e-mail correspondent e-mailed yesterday in response to my post on the ethics of chronic pain and referenced David Foster Wallace&#8217;s 2004 Gourmet magazine article &#8220;Consider the Lobster&#8221; in which his assignment to report on the Maine Lobster Fest turned into a discursus on the ethics of eating lobster. I actually did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com&blog=3667179&post=1217&subd=stonybrookfarm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethics of Chronic Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second time this season, I have a pig with chronic pain. They aren&#8217;t sick and they grow fine, they are just clearly in constant pain in their back ends. There are no obvious injuries. They just mince around when they walk, sit on their butts while they eat, and spend most of their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com&blog=3667179&post=1215&subd=stonybrookfarm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Energy Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a peak oiler, except in so far as my own rampant oil consumption contributes to leading us ever rapidly towards peak oil. Nevertheless, it does not take a genious to realize that our level of oil (fossil fuels, generally speaking) consumption is unsustainable. What is unclear to me is what energy future [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com&blog=3667179&post=1211&subd=stonybrookfarm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can (Insert Place) Feed Itself?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This question, &#8220;Can (insert place) feed itself?&#8221; is a hot question. Researchers at Cornell University recently did a study that answered this question, and the answer was no. Making the most efficient use of available land, New York could feed about a third of its population. (The important part of that answer is the &#8220;available [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com&blog=3667179&post=1205&subd=stonybrookfarm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Get Enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: This is just a quick post to get my feet wet on my journey back to blogging)
Last night I really didn&#8217;t want to go back out to feed the lambs*, but I did it anyway. I intended to just run out there and throw their hay at them and then run back in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com&blog=3667179&post=1201&subd=stonybrookfarm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Back to Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the short story is that since the end of July I have been suffering from a massive bout of writer&#8217;s block. Many mornings I have sat down on the couch with a cup of coffee and the laptop in my lap and tried to put together blog posts, but every morning I tried, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com&blog=3667179&post=1192&subd=stonybrookfarm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Composting &#8220;Mortalities&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mortalities&#8221; are the &#8220;industry&#8221; euphemism for dead animals. To compost &#8220;mortalities&#8221; is to compost animals that have died on the farm. So far, 2009 has been a big year for dead animals on this farm and I hope I don&#8217;t have another year like it for a long time. In late winter, my favorite goat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com&blog=3667179&post=1178&subd=stonybrookfarm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Farmer As Rock Star</title>
		<link>http://stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/the-farmer-as-rock-star/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year before Jen and I left Philadelphia for Schoharie Jennifer took over managing a stable in Fairmount Park. One day before they left, Jen and I were talking to the previous managers and one of them, the male of the male-female couple told us about being a jouster at renaissance fairs. He said, &#8220;It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com&blog=3667179&post=1169&subd=stonybrookfarm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flighty Red Broilers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This batch of Red Broiler meat chickens that I am raising is flighty as hell. Ordinarily when you touch a meat bird it squawks a bit and a tremor shoots through its body, and that&#8217;s about it. When you touch a good percentage of this batch of Red Broilers, they go off screeching and flapping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com&blog=3667179&post=1160&subd=stonybrookfarm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walk-In Freezer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year my friends down at the vegetable farm got a bigger walk-in freezer and I agreed to buy the old one. I was supposed to take it last fall, which turned into last winter, which turned into this spring, which turned into&#8230;well, I haven&#8217;t taken it yet, but, finally, the site is ready, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stonybrookfarm.wordpress.com&blog=3667179&post=1156&subd=stonybrookfarm&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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