archive for June 18th, 2006

We have a right to know

by @ Sunday, June 18th, 2006.

We the people have a right to know where our food comes from — and what’s in it. Now, let’s make sure it’s law. If you agree, please see the Center for Food Safety’s site to sign your name to an online petition.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) recently introduced two bills related to GE […]

Cod piece

by @ Sunday, June 18th, 2006.

NYT Sunday Magazine has a really thought-provoking and disturbing article about how Norway, already by far the world’s largest source of farmed salmon, is well on its way to domesticating cod. Except that while salmon apparently was really easy to turn into the industrial chicken of the sea — that is, corn-pellet-eating, scaled repositories of […]

Weekend Digest

by @ Sunday, June 18th, 2006.

Here are a few things we are reading this weekend, when we aren’t ranting about poor refereeing in the World Cup and celebrating the adoption of the International Declaration of Human Rights.
The Boston Globe: Highly annoying article from a dietgeist skeptic, asking how much longer organic consumers will continue paying premiums once they realize organic […]

Global linkage

by @ Sunday, June 18th, 2006.

I just watched this video and was inspired by the simplicity of its message.
The push here in the U.S. to grow more and more food to feed the poor of the world is thought as such a noble endeavor, and yet I wonder if we would do more good by adjusting our focus — and […]

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