Ryzan aboard Shoals Steamship - Seacoastonline.com
12.04.09
Ryzan aboard Shoals Steamship
PORTSMOUTH — The Isles of Shoals Steamship Company (ISSCO) named Rich Ryzman as its marketing manager. His chief role is promoting ISSCO's tour offerings and further developing the company's relationships with Seacoast's business, hospitality and educational communities.
Ryzman became acquainted with ISSCO through an introductory tourism class assignment aboard the M/V Thomas Laighton. Ryzman planned and marketed his own cruise for the graduating seniors at UNH for ISSCO while following the Recreation Management and Policy field practicum curriculum. He then went on to South Carolina to complete his internship and finish his bachelor's degree that summer.
Ryzman decided to return to Portsmouth to work with ISSCO to receive more responsibility in a diverse working environment.
For more on the Isles of Shoals Steamship Company, visit www.islesofshoals.com.
Source: Seacoastonline.com, NH
Agribusiness a Maze of Deception
In addition to the animal cruelty revealed at New England's largest egg supplier, Mercy For Animals recent undercover investigation also shows us how confusing the maze of animal agribusiness is.
I wish this blog template came with a flow chart.
We start with the egg facility, where hundreds or thousands of birds live in cramped battery cages, unable to spread their wings, sharing space with rotting corpses, being kicked into manure pits or thrown into trash cans while they're still alive.
This place is owned by Maine Contract Farming. The facility was formerly the DeCoster Egg Farm. Some media sources call it Quality Eggs, but others say that Quality Eggs is only one purchaser from the facility. The facility is still owned by Jack DeCoster, who owns Maine Contract Farming.
Then we draw an arrow down to Radlo Foods, which is a purchaser of eggs from this facility.
Radlo Foods was one franchisee of Eggland's Best, which sells eggs to consumers through grocery stores. Radlo supplied "classic brown" eggs to Eggland's.
Today, though, Eggland's announced that it has dropped Radlo as one of its franchisees because it did business with a facility who didn't abide by Eggland's animal-welfare policy.
I don't know what that policy consists of, but it's safe to say that because Eggland's is mass-selling eggs, there's a very good chance that its other suppliers have the same lax standards. After all, United Egg Producers, the umbrella group over egg companies, condones battery cages.
I also question Eggland's advertisements that say their eggs are healthier than other companies'. If they get their eggs from the same pool as other brands, how are their eggs any different?
As for Radlo Foods,...
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