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  • Napa Town and Country Fair. Napa, California, USA. Napa Valley.
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood. Here goats and sheep are eating a supplement of grain in a trough in the street.
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  • Orlando Ayme shows off one of his sheep which has 4 horns, which he thinks is hilarious. Orlando and his sons and a neighbor are returning from cultivating their potato field. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Markus Dirr, a master butcher, visits his neighbor, Hannes Ekström, a dairy farmer in Endingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, to discuss which veal calf will next go into his sausages. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Dirrs know the farmers who supply their animals, and in fact hand choose the animals and watch them grow.Germans are among the biggest meat eaters in Europe, but eat slightly less meat than in decades past.
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  • Sheepherder Miguel Martinez inspects a lamb at his farm in Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Miguel Martinez and his brother Paco skin a sheep they slaughtered for Easter at their farm in Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain.  (Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Miguel Martinez and his brother Paco slaughter a sheep for Easter at their farm in Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain.  (Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Allen Evan's dairy cattle farm near Dinosaur Cove, Victoria, Australia.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Bill Liston's Iowa hog farm uses old fashioned, outdoor confinement. USA.
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  • Pablo Corral Vega with a platter of roasted cui (guinea pigs) and a bottle of wine at a party at his farm house in Ecuador.
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  • A cook showing roasted cui (guinea pigs) at a party at Pablo Corral Vega's farm house two hours outside Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Villagers farm terraced land on the hillsides near their homes, growing wheat, rice, chilies, and potatoes, depending on the season. The wheat harvest, now ending, is assigned to the women. But the men do other jobs. A neighbor gathers the chaff to burn it while Nalim and Namgay's son-in-law Sangay Khandu plows the fields below with bulls. Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) The Ayme family heads off to cultivate one of their potato fields on their small farm in the village of Tingo, near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Harris Ranch cattle ranch in Coalinga, California. San Joaquin valley. Harris Ranch cattle feed lot is California's largest. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Harris Ranch cattle ranch in Coalinga, California. San Joaquin valley. Harris Ranch cattle feed lot is California's largest. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California.
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Biosphere candidate in the animal farm of Biosphere 2, weighing goat milk, Oracle, Arizona.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization.  1989
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Biosphere candidate milking a goat in the animal farm of Biosphere 2, Oracle, Arizona.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. 1990
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. A rainbow has appeared over a mountain of manure. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. A rainbow has appeared over a mountain of manure. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Confined hogs in concrete feeding pens at Swine Producers Unlimited. Los Banos, California. USA.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Confined hogs in concrete feeding pens at Swine Producers Unlimited. Los Banos, California. USA.
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  • Icelandic horses grazing near Reykjavik, Iceland.
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  • The sheep barns and farmhouses of fhe Glad Ostensen family in Gjerdrum, Norway.
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  • USA_AG_BEEF_30_xs.Cattle drowned during a Sacramento River Delta flood caused by a levee break are loaded onto a truck with a crane. USA.
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  • Pablo Rodriguez, Shepard, surrounded by his flock in Gallipienzo, Navarra, Spain.
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  • A goat ventures into the recent snowfall from his owner's home in Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan. Foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran.
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Inside the Biosphere 2 test greenhouses.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. 1986
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  • Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  Biosphere candidate Jane Poynter in the insectariums of Biosphere 2, Oracle, Arizona.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. 1989
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  • Farmer Joel Salatin's apprentice, Andy Wendt gathers eggs inside a portable henhouse, which is moved to a fresh section of pasture every few days at the Salatins farm in Shenandoah, Virginia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Pigs lie in a sty at Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • At dawn, the chickens in an eggmobile (portable henhouse) at Joel Salatin's farm in Shenandoah, Virginia are released to spend the day pecking in the pastures that cattle have just vacated. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The chickens spend the day eating insects, grass, seeds, and undigested bits in the cattle manure (helping to scatter it in the process).
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  • Chickens and ducks feed in an open area outside the eggmobile at Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • An apprentice at  Joel Salatin's farm tends to pigs as they feed in an open area at the farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.  (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Chickens in an eggmobile at Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Farmer Joel Salatin's apprentice, Andy Wendt carries eggs from the portable chicken house back to the the farm house in Shenandoah, Virginia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • An apprentice picks eggs at farmer Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.  (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Joel Salatin, a farmer and author, in an eggmobile (portabled henhouse) at his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Much of his daily fare is from his own farm, including applesauce and apple cider canned by his wife, Teresa, who fills the basement larder with the bounty of their farm each year.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua's son, his dog, and a woman from the city of Chengdu ride a motorcycle he bought with proceeds from farming in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tables of beef viscera for sale in a market in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate)come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • Farmer Joel Salatin goes about the day's chores at his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Hereford cattle are being loaded into tractor-trailers to transport them to the company's slaughterhouse in nearby Selma, California. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_04_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. A cowboy on horseback uses an electric cattle prod to load fattened Herefords into tractor-trailers to transport them to the company's slaughterhouse in nearby Selma, California. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • (1992) Frank Nastasi plants a kiss on his horse Compadre's muzzle, which was DNA tested to prove his Thoroughbred bloodline. Pine Bourne Horse Farm, Long Island, NY. DNA Fingerprinting. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cow head hanging in the municipal market in Guilin, China. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • USA_SCI_BIOSPH_69_xs <br />
Biosphere 2 Project undertaken by Space Biosphere Ventures, a private ecological research firm funded by Edward P. Bass of Texas.  ‘Biospherian’ Jayne Poynter harvesting potatoes inside Biosphere 2 in the intensive agriculture biome.  Biosphere 2 was a privately funded experiment, designed to investigate the way in which humans interact with a small self-sufficient ecological environment, and to look at possibilities for future planetary colonization. The $30 million Biosphere covers 2.5 acres near Tucson, Arizona, and was entirely self- contained. The eight ‘Biospherian’s’ shared their air- and water-tight world with 3,800 species of plant and animal life. The project had problems with oxygen levels and food supply, and has been criticized over its scientific validity. 1992
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. A longhorn cow takes a break from eating grain in lot 916. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Fattened Hereford cattle are herded into pens to await the tractor-trailers used to transport them to the company's slaughterhouse in nearby Selma, California. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_14_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA. Milking sperm from large male turkeys that are too big to breed naturally.
    USA_AG_TURK_05_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. A longhorn cow takes a break from eating grain in lot 916. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_16_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Fattened Hereford cattle are herded into pens to await the tractor-trailers used to transport them to the company's slaughterhouse in nearby Selma, California. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_14_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. A cowboy on horseback uses an electric cattle prod to load fattened Herefords into tractor-trailers to transport them to the company's slaughterhouse in nearby Selma, California. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_10_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_09_xs.jpg
  • Harris Ranch feeding lot in Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: A huge breeding boar named Shank at the Dee Brothers hog farm, State Center, Iowa. This 800 lb. breeding boar named Shank had rarely been outside of his breeding barn before this photograph. The only other time the hog had been outdoors was to have his picture taken with then President Ronald Reagan. USA.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: A huge breeding boar named Shank at the Dee Brothers hog farm, State Center, Iowa. This 800 lb. breeding boar named Shank had rarely been outside of his breeding barn before this photograph. The only other time the hog had been outdoors was to have his picture taken with then President Ronald Reagan. USA.
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  • Sunday is the big market day in Menghan, China. Menghan is near Jinhong, on the border with Burma. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA. Milking sperm from large male turkeys that are too big to breed naturally.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes.
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  • Sangay Khandu uses bulls to plow the family's fields, readying them for rice planting which the women in the family will do. He moves gingerly around the notoriously bad-tempered beasts. The Namgay household farms land that they own and rented land as well to feed their large family. The land is scattered in terraced strips through the hillsides near their home, each plot devoted to one crop: wheat, rice, chilies, or potatoes. Shingkhey, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 74-75. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan.
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  • Poultry: Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms, Sonoma, California, USA.
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  • Harris Ranch feeding lot in Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Hereford cattle are being loaded into tractor-trailers to transport them to the company's slaughterhouse in nearby Selma, California. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Illinois farmer Gordon Stine checks on a nephew's steers, which are being fattened for slaughter on an adjacent farm in St. Elmo, Illinois. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The proportion of income spent on food in the United States has declined steadily since the 1950s and is now among the lowest in the world. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, prepares a chicken for her guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Sheep graze near the restaurant before dinner at Chef Dan Barber's Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture  in Pocantico Hills, New York. The restaurant produces and grows much of the fresh food it serves.  (Chef Dan Barber is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) .
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  • Lan Guihua (right), a widowed farmer, and her neighbor bleed a freshly killed chicken at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • Preparation for lunch at the home of Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A woman dressed in a black abaya and shielded from the sun in a wide-brimmed straw hat called a nakhl, herds goats near Shibam on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula's Rub al Khali, or Empty Quarter. This section of desert holds the world's largest stretch of sand. Hadhramawt, Yemen
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  • A goat ventures into the recent snowfall from his owner's home in Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan, central Iran.
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  • A dog looks on impatiently as men slaughter a chicken for visitors at the home of Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer living in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Kibet Serem and his sister-in-law Emily milk cows on their small tea plantation in their village near Kericho, Kenya. (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. He is 25 years of age.) He cares for a small tea plantation that his father planted on their property near Kericho, Kenya when Kibet was a young boy and he is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. He milks, feeds, waters and cares for the cows twice a day with the help of the wives of his brothers who also live on the property in their own houses.
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  • Miguel Ángel Martín Cerrada, a shepherd, with his typical day's worth of food, surrounded by his flock and sheep-herding mastiff in Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (From the Book What I Eat: Around the Work in 80 Diets) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, in front of her home with her typical day's worth of food in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation. MODEL RELEASED.
    CHI_060613_155_xxw.jpg
  • Chickens scuttle out of their mobile shelters at Chef Dan Barber's Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture  in Pocantico Hills, New York. The restaurant produces and grows much of the fresh food it serves.  (Chef Dan Barber is mentioned in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Sheepherder Miguel Martinez and his brother Paco milk down a sheep so that it is able to nurse. Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain.(Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada  is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A woman dressed in a black abaya and shielded from the sun in a wide-brimmed straw hat called a nakhl, herds goats near Shibam on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula's Rub al Khali, or Empty Quarter. This section of desert holds the world's largest stretch of sand. Hadhramawt, Yemen.
    YEM_080331_155_xw.jpg
  • Shahnaz Begum, a mother of four, outside her home with her microloan-financed cows and her typical day's worth of food outside her home in the village of Bari Majlish, an hour outside Dhaka. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED
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  • Poultry. Turkeys on a truck waiting to enter the slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Belden Egg Ranch. Central Valley, California. 500-foot row of laying hens. Automatic feeders travel the rows and back every 30 minutes. USA.
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  • Miguel Angel Martinez Cerrada and his brother Paco slaughter a sheep for Easter at their family ranch in the tiny village of Zarzuela de Jadraque, Spain. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The sheep will be skinned, gutted, and hung in the cold house, and the meat will be eaten at Easter, when the extended family comes for dinner.
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  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Vaccinating a newborn pig at the Mitri Hog Ranch. USA.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Vaccinating a newborn pig at the Mitri Hog Ranch. USA.
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  • Belden Egg Ranch. Central Valley, California.
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