BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin has an entertaining interview for bbTV with the "King Corn" guys, shortly after their screening for Congress. Although they look like they’re getting used to wearing ties, Ian Cheney’s clearly starting to get bored with the "we eat too much corn" message — at the end of the segment, he explains that […]
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
Wal-Mart is recalling "realistic-looking" toy animals made in China because of excessive lead levels. The company’s independent testing revealed excessive levels of lead in the base material, not the surface coating. The animal sets were labeled "Farm Animals," "Dinosaurs," and "Jungle Animals." Wal-Mart says it thinks the manufacturer has sold them through other outlets as […]
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When you come from a smaller city in a rural area and your main local-foods choices consist of a couple of upscale restaurants or your own home cooking (with produce from the farmers market, of course), sometimes you want to know what it’s like to have […]
We’ve got a new series for you, contributed by Barry Foy of The Devil’s Food Dictionary, that “pioneering culinary reference work consisting entirely of lies.” Barry has selected a few definitions — out of his 800 or so mouth-puckeringly tart entries — that we think we will amuse Ethicurean readers.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), speaking to a reporter at the Financial Times:
For whatever reason, people are willing to pay two or three times as much for something that says ‘organic’ or ‘local’. Far be it from me to understand what that’s about, […]
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
Today is Conservation Call-In Day about the Food and Farm Bill, and we seriously need to get critical mass on at least this important point. The Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, along with American Farmland Trust and other national conservation and environment organizations, have all sent out emails asking you to call your senators today (Wednesday, Oct. 17, but hey, if you miss it, you can call up to Oct. 23).
Exciting announcement for Ethicurean readers: After almost five years of deliberation and two round of public comments, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has finally issued standards for “grass (forage) fed” marketing claims — ones that actually mean what most consumers think they should mean, and aren’t chock full of industry-pandering loopholes.
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