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Egg debate tough to crack
It used to be thought of as an easy meal. Nothing prepared for dinner? Boil an egg. Need a nutritious breakfast? Try scrambled egg. No time? Bolt down an egg flip. But as versatile as they may be in the kitchen, there is nothing easy about selecting a carton of eggs. For the past 30 years the egg has been at the forefront of campaigns by animal welfare activists, concerned about inhumane production. More →
To market, to market
Market stalls filled with rows of brightly coloured vegetables and baskets of perfectly ripe, deliciously scented fruit, lovingly tended by a crinkly-faced farmer or his rosy-cheeked wife. It’s a vision of Arcadian splendour from a simpler time; it is the way people shop in nursery rhymes and historic novels. It’s a very long way from More →
Green cows
It can be a challenging game running cattle on the rangelands of Australia. There is the extreme isolation, the heat and dust, the seasons are unreliable and even when the rain comes, there isn’t much of it. But Scott Fraser, along with a couple of his fellow cattle producers in the channel country of far west Queensland and New South Wales More →
