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Vertical farms on Colbert Report

by @ Saturday, June 14th, 2008.

Stephen Colbert had Dickson Despommier, the mastermind behind the Vertical Farm Project, on to talk about highrise farming in urban areas.

How LOHAS can you go? Sales of organic processed food soar

by @ Sunday, June 8th, 2008.

Brandweek reports that despite the down economy, Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) consumers are happy to open their wallets for higher-priced organic cereal, jelly, pasta, produce, soup, and ready-to-serve prepared food.

The politics of world food shortages

by @ Thursday, June 5th, 2008.

In today’s New York Times, Andy Martin reports from Rome on an emergency summit called to address food shortages, climate change, and energy, while a recent New Yorker essay puts the food crisis in context of Thomas Malthus’s famous predictions that population growth would be curbed by famine.

The 2008 Farm Bill: Pollan, Eschmeyer on a bittersweet victory

by @ Wednesday, June 4th, 2008.

Yesterday Michael Pollan — who, whether he likes it or not is the most widely read spokesperson for the sustainable food movement — sent an email to his list-serv (subscribe here) with his thoughts on the 2008 Farm Bill that finally passed. In short, he thinks that despite the highest levels of activism in a generation, it is “not a very good bill.”

Barack Obama on U.S. food & ag policy

by @ Saturday, May 31st, 2008.

Ari LeVaux sent us a link to his May 29 column for the Missoula Independent, Flash in the Pan, in which he interviewed Barack Obama over email about food and agriculture policy.

Apocalypse Cowabunga! The Simpsons on factory farming

by @ Sunday, May 25th, 2008.

In the episode “Apocalypse Cow,” which you can watch for free (with commercials) on Hulu.com, Bart joins 4H and raises a steer he names Lou, who gets sent to a feedlot.

Shoots — eat and leave

by @ Monday, May 19th, 2008.

The first people to eat takenoko, or young bamboo shoots, must have been really, really hungry.

Getting a handle on sustainability: It’s the ecosystem (stupid)

by @ Sunday, May 18th, 2008.

The word “sustainability” came up a lot at the Sustainable Food Institute portion of the Cooking for Solutions 2008 shindig held last week at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. And when I say a lot, I mean practically each minute. But thanks to six incredibly substantive panel discussions, several solo speakers, and all the informal conversations, I have a new respect for — and new ways of thinking about — what had previously seemed like a hollowed-out, meaningless abstraction.

Jumping off the deep end: An immersion in seafood

by @ Thursday, May 15th, 2008.

Sample some of seafood’s sticking points by reading the current Edible San Francisco, our Fish Issue.

Happy belated second birthday to us

by @ Sunday, May 11th, 2008.

Friday, May 9, was the second anniversary of the first post on the Ethicurean … and we forgot to celebrate.

Farm Bill end game

by @ Friday, May 9th, 2008.

Tom Philpott has an important post up on Gristmill today, about the final proposal Congress has finally cobbled together for the 2007 Farm Bill, months late. Should Bush veto it or not?

Rock bottom of the food chain: Children in the fields

by @ Tuesday, April 29th, 2008.

Here in the United States alone, more than 170,000 children aged 12-17 — and that’s the legally hired number, estimates of the real number put it closer to 430,000 — are exempt from federal protective child-labor laws. That means they can work in 100-degree fields for six to seven days a week, 10 hours a day, for far less than minimum wage. They do so to help their families survive.

Postcard from Phoenix: Only in America

by @ Sunday, April 27th, 2008.

The husband and I are in Scottsdale, AZ, visiting his family for a few days before the W.K. Kellogg Food and Society Conference starts in nearby Chandler. (See last year’s recap.) The Ethicurean’s Elanor is going too; we’re excited to hang out with our buddies Tom Philpott and Sam Fromartz, among the many food-movement people […]

Announcing the Bay Area’s newest meat CSA: the Clark Summit Farm Meat Club!

by @ Thursday, April 24th, 2008.

I’m involved in starting a brand-new CSA that I am really excited about: helping Liz and Dan from Clark Summit in Tomales, CA, get theirs off the ground. Clark Summit should be the poster farm of the sustainable-agriculture movement. They do things right — 100% grassfed beef, including Scottish highland, piglets and chickens running free all over the farm.

Dietitians, they like us

by @ Thursday, April 17th, 2008.

Two health and nutrition awards for the Ethicurean.

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