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archive for February 26th, 2008
Digest - Commentary/features: SOLE supply blockages, choco woes, go bananas
Although the big companies (who buy though layers of contractors and middlemen to give themselves plausible deniability) initiated a voluntarily program several years ago to reduce child labor, not much improvement can be found.
… Water dries up fast in food desert : When a community group’s effort to bring a full-service grocery store to their neighborhood failed, they approached the managers of a local convenience stores with survey data showing the need for fresh food.
Digest - Blogs: Hogger blogger wild, rural buh-byes, trashing the Clintons
Wooly bully : Mangalitsa hog farmer/funder Heath in Washington State has quite the rant — inspired by this innocuous, sweetly boosterish NY Times article on small dairies — about why “local” doesn’t always taste better, and how California chefs who buy in-state are almost certainly buying inferior pork than what he raises.
… Can’t buy you love: Monsanto grants a ton of money to ag-study programs (Iowa State even has a Monsanto Auditorium), but only those who research biotechnology are awarded cash — those who are working on organic methods are on their own.
“How now, pill-poppin’ cow?”
In the aftermath of the Hallmark/Westland slaughterhouse exposé, henceforth to be known as Downergate, there has been much outrage. Let there now be outraged laughter … assuming your sense of humor is as sick as mine.
I think this animated editorial cartoon about Doreen the Downer Cow, "The Omnivore’s Nightmare" by Mark Fiore, deserves an award. […]
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