New acquaintance Christopher Cook asked me to post this event, which is happening the evening after the Percy Schmeiser discussion (below).
“Eating Locally, Thinking Globally”: On Wednesday, November 15, from 7 to 9 p.m., food-politics experts, food-justice activists, and city supervisors will gather to discuss how our food system is affecting our health and the planet’s […]
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“Eating Locally, Thinking Globally”: Calling all Bay Area food activists
Farmer Percy Schmeiser talking to Michael Pollan, Ignacio Chapela
As those who have seen the riveting 2004 documentary The Future of Food will remember, Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser has been bankrupted and maddened by a Kafkaesque battle with the multinational agrochemical seed company Monsanto.
In a talk Tuesday, November 14, at UC Berkeley titled “GMOs and the […]
Digest: Rice crisis redux, Arizonans help hogs, Dems da rules?
Washington Post: A good look at all the questions raised by Bayer’s retroactive application for the USDA to approve LLRice601, its genetically modified, herbicide-resistant rice strain that has contaminated a significant percentage of the U.S. long-grain rice supply. Among other things, many fear that the LLRice601 genes will cross-breed with weedy red rice, thus wiping […]
University Farmers Market: Fresh pasta and potato paradise
Last Saturday, the Butter Bitch and I made a visit to the University Farmers Market. The farmers market used to be our neighborhood market, but Interstate 5 dissuaded us from visiting often. We went to find out why the market needs to be saved and to investigate a rumor of local, organic butter. […]
Reasons to vote
Every November, I face the march of time and age a year. At least every other November, I face an election, and steel myself for the task of participating in Democracy.
Democracy is like sausage-making, but smellier, messier, and less pleasant. People deceive, dissemble, lie, rant, and make asses of themselves, but they also […]
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