Articles written by Bonnie Azab Powell

Who’s afraid of Big Bad Agribiz? Not “Food Inc.” — but eaters and farmers may be

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on June 12, 2009

You’ve most likely heard about “Food, Inc.,” the new

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“The Failure of Science”: New paper makes a damning case against genetically modified food crops

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on June 3, 2009

“Doom and gloomers.” That’s what my

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It’s about volume, not price: How Straus Family Creamery is weathering the organic dairy storm

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on June 2, 2009

U.S. dairy farmers are in a fight for their lives. Things are really bad, particularly in California, where there have already been two suicides,

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Postcard from the Sustainable Foods Institute in Monterey

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on May 14, 2009

I’m here in Monterey for the Sustainable Foods Institute, which

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Ripe time, ripe place: In England, a groundswell of food growers outstrips supply of land

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on May 12, 2009

My piece about allotment gardening in the United Kingdom has just been published in the Washington

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Vote! Organic Film Trailer Competition finalists announced

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on May 12, 2009

The Organic Summit has announced the 12 finalists for its first annual Organic

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Ethicurean redesign is a little half-baked

By Bonnie Azab Powell • on May 10, 2009

Whenever I attempt to have more than four people over for dinner at a time, I quickly get out of my depth. I don’t plan what has to go in the oven

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Ask the Ethicurean: How do I work to change the food system?

We recently received an email from a reader asking for career advice on how best to make a difference in the food system. He has given me permission to post it here with his name removed — I’ll

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CDC briefing: Novel H1N1 virus not raging out of control yet

The Centers for Disease Control held a press briefing this morning at 1 p.m. EST about the “novel H1N1″ virus. Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for the

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Global Grocer illustrates how cosmopolitan our carts are

Here’s an interesting companion piece to the New

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Retrovore shows how to start plants from seeds

Not too long ago food-politics blogging pioneer Kerry Trueman — who used to write primarily at Eating Liberally (which she cofounded) but now blogs

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A visual depiction of the US slaughterhouse industry

Extremely chilling animation depicting the rate of slaughter, in real time, of chickens, pigs, and cows

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BAMCO backs Florida tomato pickers in fight for fair labor standards

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Housekeeping notice: Coming changes to the Ethicurean

The Ethicurean is approaching its third birthday, and we are attempting to implement some long overdue changes. A major redesign is in the works that we hope will make the blog more useful and more importantly,

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WK Kellogg’s Food and Society 2009: Follow the foundation funding

I’ve just come back from the WK Kellogg Foundation’s invitation-only Food

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