Grist: Climate-change chronicler Bill McKibben has just announced a kick-ass, mass-protest climate movement for 2007. Sign us up!
Guardian (UK): As English newspapers continue to buzz with criticism of farm minister David Miliband’s dismissal of organic food as a mere “lifestyle choice,” Guardian op-ed writer Graham Harvey delivers some words of wisdom for consumers. And […]
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Digest: Climate for change, UK organic row, penguins losing to farmed fish, Kraft sued
Bay Area pastured poultry panic may be premature
Damn. John Birdsall, the East Bay Express’s restaurant reviewer, totally busted me on EBX’s blog for prematurely panicking about the disappearance of Hoffman Game Birds from the Bay Area, now that the elderly owner is no longer selling at the Ferry Plaza farmers market. Doing the homework that I should have, Mr. B. called […]
Vodka taste-off: Square One Organic Vodka vs. Russian Standard Imperia
I like vodka. I like vodka gimlets (fresh lime juice plus a splash of Rose’s, up), vodka tonics, Cosmopolitans, Bloody Marys…
To vodka aficionados, therefore, I am a nitwit. Vodka nerds do not dilute their precious spirit with any other tastes, any more than oenophiles drink wine coolers. Remember those from high school? Ick.
So when the […]
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