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Mini-Digest (Blogs): Shredding the NYT’s locavore coverage, the end of food — and the organic boom? Plus TCHO Chocolate TV

by Bonnie P. @ Friday, August 8th, 2008.

Our friends in the blogging world have been busy cooking up some great pieces. Back when we did the Digest lo so many months ago, these all would have merited a green star, or even two.

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To the Victory Gardeners go the toils

by Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen @ Friday, August 8th, 2008.

Summer’s heat has finally reached us all, even our northernmost Ethicurean colleagues, and if you wonder why you haven’t heard much from many of us -– well, you can imagine us with dirt on our hands and knees, working away in our Victory Gardens as our crops take off.

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Just another E. coli ground-beef recall

by Bonnie P. @ Wednesday, August 6th, 2008.

Voluntary recall notice for 153,630 pounds of frozen ground beef products produced by S&S Foods LLC of Azusa, Calif.

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Growing, growing… gone

by Elanor @ Wednesday, August 6th, 2008.

Monsanto has just announced plans to unload its dairy hormone business, citing a desire to focus in on the GMO seed market. Apparently, growth hormone is not a growth industry.
As you might remember from previous posts, activists around the country have been waging campaigns against state legislatures that, under pressure from Monsanto, have sought to […]

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WT… Oh, forget it

by Elanor @ Tuesday, August 5th, 2008.

The WTO’s Doha Round of trade talks slowed to a halt last week. Here’s why it’s good for food sovereignty and security.

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Report from Taste3: “Culanthropy” in New Orleans with the Culinary Corps

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Tuesday, August 5th, 2008.

Christine Carroll’s Culinary Corps is a group of professional cooks and bakers who volunteer their culinary skills to help with post-Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.

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