archive for October 15th, 2006

Guest post: The Waffler goes to World Vegetarian Day

by @ Sunday, October 15th, 2006.

Dairy Queen and Corn Maven asked their friend and coworker The Waffler to share an Ethicurean-related experience.

A few weeks ago, shortly after being invited to write a guest post, I got an e-mail from my righteous vegetarian friend. She and her girlfriend were going to World Vegetarian Day, a two-day gathering in San Francisco […]

Digest: UK sea change, less-unfair trade, Ode to Joy

by @ Sunday, October 15th, 2006.

The Times (UK): Interesting look at the sea change underway in Great Britain, where people “tend to view good food as a privilege, not a right.” And yet when sales of “ethical” food rise by 62% in four years, supermarkets take notice.
Grist: Jonathan Rosenthal, Oké fair-trade fruit purveyor, answers readers’ questions, which are a lot […]

Pollan on “The Vegetable-Industrial Complex”

by @ Sunday, October 15th, 2006.

Michael Pollan, the closest thing this food-politics movement has to a leader, finally weighs in at length on the ramifications of the E. coli outbreak in bagged salad greens.
Writing about “The Vegetable-Industrial Complex” for the New York Times Magazine, he expounds on the dangers of an over-centralized, over-industrialized food system. Industry and government are looking […]

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