When apple harvest time comes around, look for cider vinegar, too, and find new ways to incorporate it into your cooking.
archive for November, 2007
Digest - News: AgSec threatens Farm Bill veto, farmworkers win pesticide lawsuit
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Features: Farmers, dairymen protest govt crackdowns; rare farm-animal breeds; superbugs coming
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Commentary: Tesco to open in poor neighborhoods, Monbiot on biofuels, GMO warriors
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Blogs: Exploring food deserts, Cargill timeline, music to our ears
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
Attention all Farm Bill nuts! PBS wants you
PBS Marketplace is looking for people engaged in the Farm Bill debate to share their experiences in attempting to shape the new legislation.
New RSS feeds to aid your Digestion
I was finally motivated to check something off the eternal to-do list yersterday by friend o’Ethicurean Jen Maiser, mistress of all things locavorean; burn a separate RSS feed for the Digest posts.
“The Devil’s Food Dictionary” on industrial agriculture
The second in our new series contributed by Barry Foy of The Devil’s Food Dictionary, that “pioneering culinary reference work consisting entirely of lies.” We’re publishing installments of Ethicurean-related terms whenever we need to cheer ourselves up. (Yes, stubborn old Farm Bill, we’re talking to you!)
Digest - News: Another day, another million pounds of beef recalled
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary: Farm Bill fur flying, humane groups proposing Cal. initiative
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Features: Eat local NOW, sugar power, chef-farmer matchmaking in Wisconsin
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Blogs: The war on raw milk, providing a social oasis in a food desert
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
“Weed It and Reap”: Michael Pollan shreds current Farm Bill in the New York Times
Michael Pollan has an op-ed in today’s New York Times that explains, in his trademark clear, wryly humorous style, why the current version of the Farm Bill the Senate is preparing to pass is “very much a farm bill in the traditional let-them-eat-high-fructose-corn-syrup mold.”
The revolving door between government and industry
Here’s something that might make you feel a bit less secure about the safety of your food: the director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is becoming the senior vice president and chief science and regulatory affairs officer at the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).
Robert E. Brackett, Ph.D. has extensive […]
Calling your senators about the Farm Bill can have unexpected results
A funny thing happened when I called my senators this week to ask their support of the Dorgan-Grassley Amendment, which would “put a hard cap of $250,000 on commodity payments, close loopholes, and shift the savings to rural development, beginning and minority farmer, conservation, nutrition, and anti-hunger programs,” according to the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.
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• Wear your food politics on your chest #2: HFCS nightmares
• Opening up: Notes from the Northeast Ohio Food Congress
• Not too cool for gruel: Wyoming, MI schoolkids interested in showers, oatmeal
• Artists explore urban sustainability at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• What does an Obama win mean for the U.S. food supply?
• Review: New documentary “Food Fight” is more of a lovefest
• A foraged wild mushroom feast at Les Jardins Sauvages
• Shameless: The Bush deregulatory free-for-all
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• Digest: A schizophrenic FDA, processed-meat worries, and survey says we want good food
• Old snapshots document fish populations, curb “shifting baselines syndrome”
• Food politics gets a prestigious platform, with Michael Pollan’s manifesto in this Sunday’s NYT Magazine
• Mini-Digest: Food stamps, belly cramps, and more
• New organization helps veterans become farmers
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