Saturday, December 26, 2009





Cattle at my place Christmas Day 2009 braving temperatures at 20 below and seeking protection from North Winds in excess of 30 mph for 3 days.

Friday, December 25, 2009



The "Real World of Global Warming" while ranching on the Great Plains of America Christmas Day 2009 at windchill 20 below with sustained 35 mph winds for 3 days.
Sows without a factory farm not enjoying Christmas 2009 at my place in Central NE.


Landri and Lindsi Loos one week BEFORE Christmas


Lindsi Trent Kelli Libbi and Landri Loos on Christmas 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009



Here I am riding my best mount Lady Blue next to Apache the Super Dog. Photo taken by Misty Horn.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009



Apache the world's greatest cow working dog at the age of 10 years

Monday, October 26, 2009

Monday, August 24, 2009

Time magazine article of lies

Getting real about high cost of cheap food


My letter to the editor

Mr. Walsh your article is the most bias piece of reporting I have witnessed in some time. You completely ignore the benefit of science and technology with today's efficient food production. The best example comes from Ivy League Cornell University indicating that modern food production is the most sustainable any nation has ever seen. Today's dairyman use only 10% of the land mass they did in 1944 to produce the same gallon of milk. Examples such as this exist in each industry yet you chose to not report the facts. I think most logical thinking American's will recognize you as a fiction writer. Please contact Disney right away because they too like to hire people who recycle information without verifying the truth.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009




Gotcha Mobile Machine displaying messages about "Cured Meats for Healthy Heartbeats" to 200,000 people gathered in St. Louis, MO for All Star Game 2009

Friday, July 10, 2009

All-Star Game attendees encouraged
to eat ‘Cured Meats for Healthy Heartbeat’

Medical research shows hot dogs and other cured meats offer health benefits

Nothing goes together like baseball and hot dogs, and with a growing body of medical evidence that suggests dietary nitrates - like those commonly found in hot dogs - are vital to the prevention of heart disease, attendees at the 2009 Major League Baseball All Star Game July 14 in St. Louis, MO, are being encouraged to enjoy both.

“Those attending this year’s All-Star game should enjoy a hot dog during the game knowing that it takes cured meats for healthy heartbeats,” said Trent Loos, a sixth generation farmer/rancher and founder of the Faces Of Agriculture.

For the past 10 years, Dr. Nathan Bryan, a medical researcher at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas, Houston Health Sciences Center, has been working to determine the importance of dietary nitrite and nitrate consumption as a means to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease and other diseases associated with nitric oxide insufficiency in the diet. In the process, he also has examined long-standing claims that the compounds cause certain cancers and found that indeed those risks do not exist.

Since the early 1980s there have been numerous reports on the association of N-nitrosamines and human cancers but a causative link between nitrite and nitrate exposure and cancer is still missing, according to Bryan. Furthermore, he noted that a two-year study on the carcinogenicity of nitrite by the National Institute of Health has conclusively found that there was no increased evidence of carcinogenic activity in male or female rats or mice as a result.

Moreover, if nitrite were a carcinogen, Bryan said people would be advised to avoid swallowing since saliva contains nitrite. Nitrites also are pumped directly into the heart for therapy purposes when heart attacks occur, he said.

“Nitrites and nitrates are naturally found in our bodies and are in no way a health risk. Quite simply, they are good for us and essential for our cardiovascular health,” said Bryant. He noted that cardio-protective levels of nitrites and nitrates can easily be achieved by increasing consumption of nitrite/nitrate-rich foods such as cured meats and leafy green vegetables.

“As a food producer, I’m quite excited about the work being conducted by Bryan and others regarding the medical benefits of hot dogs and other cured meats. I find it amazing that the much-feared nitrites that groups have been trying to scare us about all these years are really nothing more than a vitamin-like substance that turn out to be good for us and our hearts,” said Loos.

To tell the story of the health benefits associated with cured meats, Loos has hired a mobile media truck to drive around St. Louis on the day of the All-Star game with a billboard that simply reads, “Cured Meats for Healthy Heartbeats”. The mobile billboard will feature a young consumer enjoying a tasty and “healthy” hot dog, he said.

“A decade worth of research proves the health benefit of nitrites and nitrates in our diets. It is critical that this message begin to be heard and that people recognize it is okay, and actually good for them to enjoy cured meats in moderation and as part of a balanced diet,” said Loos.


Interviews/media availability:
To schedule an interview with Trent Loos or Dr. Nathan Bryant, call (515)418-8185 or email Loos at trent@loostales.com. Loos will be in the St. Louis area on game day and available for interviews.


For more information on meat as a health food:

- Cardioprotective actions of nitrite therapy and dietary considerations

- Food sources of nitrates and nitrites: the physiologic context for potential health benefits

- Nitrate in foods: harmful or healthy?

- Dietary nitrite prevents hypercholesterolemic microvascular inflammation and reverses endothelial dysfunction

- Cardiovascular prevention by dietary nitrate and nitrite

- Forward by from the medical textbook: "Food, Nutrition and the Nitric Oxide Pathway: Bioactivaton and Bioavailability." Written by Nobel Laureate Lou Ignarro

- Watch a video with Dr. Nathan Bryan

Including link: https://blogs.loc.gov/

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