Updated Oct. 24: The Age has added a link to this website to the lede.
Looks like "Ethicureanism" has joined Xerox, Kleenex, and other words whose meaning has become generic, sundered from their creators.
In my RSS feeds I noticed that The Age, the newspaper for Melbourne, Australia, has an article about ethical eating dated Oct. […]

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

It looks as if someone has thrown an enormous bowl of black bean soup at the facade of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art and it’s dripped into the shape of that iconic portrait of Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda in 1960.
"Che (Sopa de Frijoles negros)" by Vik Muniz is the poster for an exhibition […]

The issues surrounding food production in Australia are so overwhelmingly large and urgent that it’s hard to pause for a moment and think carefully, weighing the risks and rewards of actions that overlap between complex fields of study and competing interests. There are lists now of which Australian cities are likely to run out of […]

Wesfarmers has made a takeover bid for the Coles Group, which includes Australia’s second most successful supermarket chain, after Woolworths. This week the National Association of Retail Grocers in Australia, which represents independent grocery groups such as IGA and Foodworks, released a report showing Coles and Woolworths controlled 79% of the market. By comparison, it […]

Rich colors in the slums, Calcutta. Photograph by Foreign Devil Correspondent.
I’m moving from Melbourne to Sydney in a couple of weeks. I’m planning to spend half the year in Darlinghurst, on the edge of Sydney’s CBD, and some part of the rest of the year in Calcutta’s Central Business District in the Park Street area, […]

It’s been raining for the last couple of weeks along the East Coast of Australia, but it isn’t all good news. New South Wales is enduring land-churning floods. Dams that supply Sydney are at a three-year high of 49.6% capacity, which New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma estimates will add seven and a half months to the supply of drinking water. Which doesn’t mean that we have more water to grow food. The headline on an Australian Associated Press report yesterday was “Murray-Darling irrigators get grim news.”

The lead news story on the home page of my Yahoo! Australia account was an Australian Associated Press brief report that the Victorian government was expected to lift the ban on growing genetically modified crops when it expires at the end of February next year. “Pressure has come from farm groups and the federal government,” the story suggested. GM supporters claim a surge in agricultural productivity could happen, with farmers able to plant crops resistant to weeds, insects, and salinity, and that need less water.

<?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fThomas%20L%20Friedman>This week he admitted to The New York Times global affairs correspondent, Thomas Friedman, that it was the convergence of a set of statistics that showed that if we don’t receive sufficient rain in the next eight weeks that there won’t be enough water to irrigate the Murray Darling area that produces 41% of Australia’s food, with international opinions, from Nicholas Stern’s report on the dire economic consequences of global warming and Al Gore visiting Australia to host a screening of his movie An Inconvenient Truth, that grudgingly turned him from a ‘climate skeptic’ to a ‘climate realist’…. Since in a federal election year the short term concerns of getting elected or remaining in office colour the debates on climate change it’s hard to think through objectively what we’re being told, particularly to calculate to what degree our water shortages in the city have been caused by a wasteful lifestyle, and might be alleviated by changes in how we live, and what the long-term effects of energy choices and changes in agricultural production will be…. And at the other end the lifestyle sections of newspapers and magazines and television gardening programmes offer green ‘household hints’ and small gestures, the food section, <http://www.theage.com.au/news/epicure/espresso/2007/04/30/1177788007114.html>’Epicure,’ in Melbourne’s Age on May 1st noted: “Elwood’s Sails by the Bay has recently introduced water-saving measures in its dining room, cafe and functions area…. The website of the federal government’s <http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/foodindustry.html>Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade states that “nearly 90% of the total value of Australian agricultural production comes from food”, and that “the processed food and beverage industry is the largest manufacturing industry” in the country…. Patrice Newell who has owned the biodynamic <http://virgo.com.au/15.0.html>Elmswood Farm in New South Wales for the last twenty years is one of a number of farmers actively working to alleviate climate change by making the connection between the well-being of the environment and our own well-being.