Digest - Blogs: Peterson flayed, Monsanto behavior dissected, Kroger milk tracking

Collin it as she sees it: Kat rips House Ag Chair and "Bush Dog Democrat" Collin Peterson a new cornhole over his recent comments about organic food. (Eating Liberally)

Monsanto accidentally doing something good?: We [heart] Law for Food. He/she has taken something we don't remember asking about as the jumping-off point for scrutinizing Monsanto's possibly antitrust-like behavior in incentivizing farmers to use its RoundUp Ready seeds only in conjunction with its herbicide RoundUp. The surprising conclusion: Monsanto may be doing us a favor. (Law For Food)

Appealing to the "line cooks in the congressional kitchen": Curt Ellis blogs about showing his documentary "King Corn" to congresspeople on Capitol Hill, and their aides. (Culinate) Boston Globe review | Washington Post review

Milk detective: Pattie in Georgia, who's avoiding "Aurora Dairies 'organic' milk like the plague," decides to find out more about her Kroger's Naturally Preferred Organic Milk. If more consumers like her were to take the time, maybe they'll actually tell us the names of the farms the milk comes from. (FoodShed Planet)

"A chip on my shoulder where chefs are concerned": Hey DC-NoVa-Marylanders — pick up Edible Chesapeake, in which Ed challenges a local chef to design a budget meal around locally-grown ingredients. And then tell us what he makes, because Ed doesn't. (The Slow Cook)

Comments

By Nicole on October 22nd, 2007 at 8:38 pm

Ed gives the meal details in his post on Sunday! (I do have the magazine, I just haven't had a chance to read it yet.)