The lost art of butchery moves to YouTube
Cowpooling director: Very nice piece by friend o’Ethicurean Tamar Adler on meeting a Le Grand, CA, butcher who processes mostly beef and lamb for the people who raised them or their customers. Thankfully,
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Urban homesteading in Oakland
Community supported appetites: Fun profile of the Bay Area’s food-movement power couple, Anya Fernald (former director of CAFF and the woman who
‘So we’re eating at Taco Bell and we’re cleaning the Earth!’
Extra Onion, please!: The Onion has the most satisfying send-up of
Russ Parsons on why flavor trumps organic label for him
“I don’t believe in organic”: LA food writer Russ Parsons argues that people need to get over the idea that “organic” always
Obesity rates rising, health care system buckling
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of fattiness: Tom Laskawy has a brutally pointed post about a new state-level study of obesity rates, which found that obesity
Canadian restaurants that serve seal come in for criticism
“It’s no worse than veal”: The handful of restaurants in Canada that serve seal got a boost last month, when the European Union banned imports of
GMOs on their way out, high-tech-assisted conventional breeding is in
Mother Nature’s little helpers vs. Wannabe Gods: This story weaves an interesting story around a thread we’ve seen elsewhere, that companies
Special Digest, rumor version: Mike Taylor to Join FDA
Another round for the revolving door: Rumor has it that Mike Taylor,
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Not kidding around: Writer Brad Kessler talks about his and his wife’s decision to leave New York City for Vermont, raise goats, and make cheese, chronicled in his memoir “Goat
NAIS-ness in a nutshell
Tags are bagged, for now: The New York Times has a nice, colorful overview of the USDA’s
Meaty diet found to be heavier in flame retardant PBDEs
Free to be me and PBDE: Humans and many animals have become cocktails of chemicals, with a lifetime’s “body burden” acquired from skin contact, breathing, drinking, and eating industrial
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The good, the bad, and the buggy: A useful primer on antibiotic resistance, with two pages of illustrations, explains how bacteria develop resistance and pays special attention to the spread of methicillin-resistant
Court blocks Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa
But what about Buckwheat, you rascals?: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an injunction barring Monsanto from selling its Roundup Ready alfalfa seed until the government completes an environmental
New documentary “Food Stamped” explores whether you can eat healthy on food stamps
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San Francisco enacts first mandatory composting law in U.S.
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