Pt. Reyes Light: A West Marin dairy received organic certification even though it was using grass irrigated with human wastewater. “It doesn’t matter if they’re putting it on chocolate ice cream or hay, human sewage is not allowed,” said the spokeswoman for the USDA’s National Organic Program — WHOAH! as Tony Soprano would say.
NY Times: Fried scorpions, crispy beetles, sauteed flies — eating local in Northeast Thailand sounds like an episode of Fear Factor to us.
The (Champaign) News-Gazette: Students at the University of Illinois in Urbana have formed an organization called Just.Food to grow and promote organic produce, discovering both are harder than they thought.
The Leaf-Chronicle: A follow-up to the article we mentioned a few days ago, about a church-supported CSA in Clarksville, TN, says membership doubled after residents read about it.
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