San Francisco Chronicle: Over-the-top columnist Mark Morford ruminates on meat eating in the Bay Area, home to both the Harris Ranch feedlot (known to us as Cowschwitz) as well as places where cows are “humanely raised and kindly slaughtered and kissed by the sun and blessed by the sly and cooing angels of gustatory bliss.”
The Globe and Mail: Raw-milk drinkers are rallying in Canada to the cause of Michael Schmidt, the hunger-striking dairy farmer whose farm was raided last week by officials. Several in the government seem amenable to revisiting the decades-old law banning the sale of unpasteurized milk.
New York Times*: A rather toothless editorial from the Gray Lady notes that big food manufacturers are pledging to market less to children, and wonders whether it will have any effect on child obesity rates. Our guess? Nope. Maybe instead there should be a mandatory cap on junk-food advertising, a la campaign finance reform.
Chicago Sun Times: Charlie Trotter is opening a second restaurant in the windy city; Alice Waters’s nephew is the CEO of the hotel, condo, and restaurant complex.
Central Valley Business Times: No more subsidies — for those other guys! Three SoCal congressmen called for reforms in trade agreements that would “level the playing field” for Valley farmers and ranchers.
Wired News: Ethicurean buddy Jenn Shreve reviews “Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century,” a newly published successor to the Whole Earth Catalog that Dairy Queen recently purchased and loves. It’s the perfect gift for greenies on your list (and you’ll see it again on this weekend’s Ethicurean gift guide).
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December 1st, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Medium well? After all that celebration of humane meat, he doesn’t even want it to taste good? Sigh.
December 2nd, 2006 at 10:53 am
It’s interesting, I used to like beef as a kid, back when it was all mostly free range grass fed. I grew to dislike it when it all became corn fed beef from feedlots, and switched to mostly chicken and turkey. These days, with grass fed beef making a comeback, I actually like beef again when I can find the grass fed beef.
And as I drive across Arizona to Tucson for Thanksgiving, I can watch the desert die covered in grass, and pass the cows in their feedlots eating corn. And shake my head at the Arizona folks bemoaning their desert brush fires, that never used to occur.
Sigh. We gotta wake up already.