In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
archive for December, 2007
Digest - Commentary: Pollan on “sustainability,” more locavore perspectives
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Blogs: Pork-barrel politicking, “drive-by” libertarianism, civil disobedience
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
Saturday silliness
Our friend Derrick sends us this "unicorn chaser" for a very disappointing week: a Tourettes-ing Rowan Atkinson and a baby-faced John Cleese in a silly skit. Why is it Ethicurean-worthy? Well, it’s nominally (ssst!) about beekeeping … and life (waack!).
Via the Cynical-C blog
Digest: Special Farm Bill outrage edition
Advocates for farm bill reform have worked for well over a year in an effort to secure meaningful payment limits on farm program subsides. On Thursday we lost a vote in the U.S. Senate on the Dorgan-Grassley payment limits amendment despite garnering 56 votes. (Find out how your senator voted here.) The leadership had previously consented to an agreement that required all reform amendments to obtain a super-majority of 60 votes to pass. Here’s a round-up of the responses from various reform groups.
Glass gets a little fuller: Farm Bill reins in FDA on cloned food
An amendment passed in the Farm Bill stops the FDA from approving food from cloned animals until more studies have been done and consumer acceptance has been examined.
Glass half full
The Farm Bill has passed the Senate, and I’m the last one who’s going to say it doesn’t make me want to cry. But despite some extremely disappointing losses — including the failure of the Dorgan-Grassley payment limitations amendment — the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition reminds us that there were some important wins, too (and yet […]
Subsidy cap is blanched
Parke Wilde’s U.S. Food Policy blog has an update on the status of the Dorgan-Grassley amendment, which would have put a $250,000/recipient cap on subsidy payments. The status: dead. The kicker: the amendment failed despite the fact that a majority of senators voted in support of it. What is this madness, you ask? Ken Cook […]
Urgent: Taking on Big Meat
I’ve recently learned (thanks to a little birdie from Capitol Hill) that Tyson, Smithfield, and pals are on the rampage this morning, circulating memos and e-mails against two important livestock amendments to be offered today on the Farm Bill. These amendments — the Grassley competition amendment and the Tester amendment — would help make it […]
Digest - News: Farm Bill foundering, FRESH Act fails, FDA-China pact
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary: GMO comment war, piling on Andrew Martin, sweet corn blues
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Features: Monsanto reverse-engineered, organic farmtown, fishing compact
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: Hillary’s in bed with Big Meat — and we don’t mean Bill
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
2007 Food Blog Awards: Eyes on the prize
Once again, we’ve been nominated for Best Food Blog - Group in the Well Fed Network’s Food Blog Awards. We don’t actually care about the award — we just want to win this assortment of Paula Deen items, so we can creatively annihilate them.
Bake on the wild side: Part 1, the sourdough starter
I love to bake bread. It can be a messy process, requires a lot of patience, and rarely results in bread as good as what Bay Area bread wizards like Acme and Vital Vittles sell at many nearby markets. But that’s OK with me — the process is as important as the product. Bread […]
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