archive for the 'California' Category

Oprah show torpedos CAFOs, gives props to Prop. 2

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, October 16th, 2008.

Most of Oprah’s Tuesday show was devoted to reporter Lisa Ling’s “How We Treat the Animals We Eat” investigation. Friend o’Ethicurean Kerry Trueman over at Eating Liberally has posted, in her usual wryly witty style, a comprehensive account of both the show and several new developments in the humane-animal-treatment world, including what’s going on with Proposition 2, a ballot measure in California that seeks to increase cage sizes for chickens, pregnant sows, and veal calves.

Judge tells UDSA to stop interfering with the California election

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Thursday, September 25th, 2008.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled that the USDA has been improperly inserting itself into California electoral politics by planning advertisements that would advocate against Proposition 2, an initiative on the November 4th ballot. Proposition 2, “Standards for Confining Farm Animals,” aims to improve living conditions for veal, egg-laying hens, […]

Alice Waters in conversation with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Thursday, June 5th, 2008.

San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newson sat down with chef, food activist, and Slow Food International vice president Alice Waterso to help publicize Slow Food Nation, a giant celebration of food, farming, and culture that is coming to San Francisco on Labor Day weekend in late August.

Coming home to industrial ag: A tour of the Central Valley

by Elanor @ Sunday, March 16th, 2008.

There’s an image that’s stuck with me from the cross-country drive that my dad and I took last summer. It was one of many late-night stints at the wheel, perhaps 11 p.m., and we were hurtling along through the Utah desert. A sign at the last gas station had warned us of a nearly 100-mile […]

Eco-Farm snapshots

by Bonnie P. @ Sunday, January 27th, 2008.

As evidence that sustainable agriculture is hotter than a compost pile in July, the 28th annual Ecological Farming Conference known to all as Eco-Farm — from which I’ve just returned — completely sold out in record time. More than 1,500 farmers, ranchers, educators, and activists descended on Asilomar, the conference center set in a beautiful oceanside national park near Monterey, CA. Here, a few attendees tell why they were there.

California raw milk update: A new commission, instead of a reversal

by Amanda Rose @ Thursday, January 24th, 2008.

The hopes of more than 700 California raw-milk supporters following last week’s seeming victory in Sacramento were dashed today in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. The issue of raw-milk safety and California bacteria standards — instead of being revoked — will now be taken up by a "blue ribbon" commission charged to research and recommend a […]

Some good news from California on raw milk — and genetically modified crops

by Bonnie P. @ Saturday, January 19th, 2008.

Bills to support raw-milk production and to protect farmers from GMO patent-holders are on their way to the California legislature.

Two new Ethicureans

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, January 17th, 2008.

I’m still crippled — reduced to mousing and typing with left hand while standing with an ice pack strapped to my back (yeah, I know how sexy I look — you should see me in my cervical collar!). Sorry, but that means no Digest, and believe me, those 7,142-and-counting unread headlines are hurting me just […]

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