Big-boxing match: Wal-Mart Senior Director of Sustainability Rand Waddroup just finished reading "The Omnivore’s Dilemma" and wants to know what kinds of sustainable food products people would like to see on their shelves. Warning: What you say can and may be used to help the mega-store greenwash their image. But good for them for OKing some pretty biting comments. (The Check Out, via Eating Liberally)
Saying a local amen: …for this eloquent defense of "local" food in response to the Wooly Bully post. Sez Jay: "Local food stands in opposition not to ‘food from someone else’s hometown,’ but in opposition to mass-produced, homogenized food." Excellent ammunition. (Casing the Joint)
Whole Foods, whole compost: One of the coolest business relationships we’ve heard of in a while — a waste-recycling arrangement between a local farmer and Whole Foods. (FoodShed Planet)
Bellicose pretzels: A stop-animation piece provides an abridged history of war as acted out by the foods of the countries in conflict. (Boing Boing TV)
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