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Digest - Commentary: Mileage counts, Stonyfield rock-throwing

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 9th, 2008.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - Features: Abattoir ambitions, grain stampede, farming the bluefin

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 9th, 2008.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

Digest - Blogs: Obama comes to black farmers’ defense

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 9th, 2008.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

Digest - News: More Downergate fallout, Monsanto defeat likely in Kansas, moth myth busters

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 6th, 2008.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - Commentary: Eating local gains political clout, food prices, corn crisis

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 6th, 2008.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - Features: Raw-milk wars, young beekeeper, transgenic pigs

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 6th, 2008.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

Digest - Blogs: Biotech & veggie protectionism, revenge of spent cows

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 6th, 2008.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

Digest - Announcements: Community food case studies wanted, water video contest

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 6th, 2008.

Grants, surveys, contest, etc.

Digest - News: Farm Bill deals, Utah milk labeling, dairy-cow Crohn’s connection

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 2nd, 2008.

Digest - News: Farm Bill deals, Utah milk labeling, dairy-cow Crohn’s connection

Digest: Downergate update

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 2nd, 2008.

However, AgSec Ed Schafer said that he would not endorse an outright ban on downer cows entering the food supply or support stiffer penalties for regulatory violations ( Washington Post ). … The American Meat Institute’s president asked Congress why the USDA is sending a mixed message with the record recall of Downergate meat, even as the Fed says it poses only the remotest health risk.

Digest - Commentary: Local adversaries, calling out Monsanto, ‘toon time

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 2nd, 2008.

Our “free market” is bullshit : An eye-opening op-ed by a Midwestern farmer about what happened when, unable to meet demand, he leased acreage on a corn farm to grow fruits and vegetables.

… It’s not for our own good : Kansas City Star columnist Mike Hendricks gets it (free registration required); Monsanto’s anti-milk-labeling law isn’t for consumers benefit.

Digest - Features: The littlest farmworkers, free-meal stigma, defending soul food

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 2nd, 2008.

Wasn’t the Green Revolution supposed to save the children?: A comprehensive look at the problem of child labor around the world. According to the UN International Labor Organization, there are an estimated 218 million child laborers worldwide — and 7 out of 10 of them are in agriculture. Farmers in India blame Monsanto’s high prices for genetically modified, pesticide-resistant seeds create a cost squeeze that forces them to use child labor. Grab a hanky; this story is heartbreaking. Also, since when were Syngenta genetically modified seeds for such “vegetables as okra, tomatoes, chilies and eggplant” approved? (Forbes)

Digest - Blogs: Wal-Mart wants your input, standing up for local

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 2nd, 2008.

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.

… 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.

Digest - News: EPA rolls over and smells the ammonia, corn contamination, Farm Bill stalled

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, February 26th, 2008.

News about sustainable, organic, local and ethical food and farming from around the web, as well as about the icky stuff.

Digest - Commentary/features: SOLE supply blockages, choco woes, go bananas

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, February 26th, 2008.

Although the big companies (who buy though layers of contractors and middlemen to give themselves plausible deniability) initiated a voluntarily program several years ago to reduce child labor, not much improvement can be found.

… Water dries up fast in food desert : When a community group’s effort to bring a full-service grocery store to their neighborhood failed, they approached the managers of a local convenience stores with survey data showing the need for fresh food.

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