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• Friday musical interlude: Obama, Wilco at Farm Aid 2005

• Do know eVilsack: Former Iowa governor perhaps not such a bad potential Ag Sec?

• Wait an Ag Sec: Getting real about who will head the USDA

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• Opening up: Notes from the Northeast Ohio Food Congress

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Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.
— Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma

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• Tony: And if you are talking about tomatoes grown abroad, this story from Slate is pretty fascinating: http://www.slate.com/id/217783 1
• Pat Anderson: Scary. It makes the risk of collapse due to a single point of failure that much higher. One sentence:Thanks to the development of both mechanical harvesting equipment and tomato...
• Foodzie: Fascinating post! Wow. I knew California was high, but didn’t realize it dominated 95%.  This statement was also really eye-opening for me.  “Concentration in the tomato...
• Sally Parrott Ashbrook: Given how much I support the tomato industry with my purchases of canned/jarred organic tomatoes, this is really interesting stuff to me.  I buy fresh tomatoes from my...
• Greg Massa: As an organic farmer living in California’s Central Valley, it infuriates me that pesticides like Ziram continue to put my family and others at risk of diseases like...

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• Humor:
• • Innovative process turns any vegetable organic in seconds
• • Open letter to Monsanto
• • Adventures with live tortillas
• • Locavore family goes to extremes
• • Absencia Grassosis fells organic dairy
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• Rants:
• • Smells like a free ride: The EPA, CAFOs, and emissions
• • Downer and out: The U.S. beef industry
• • FDA approves food from clones
• • Why is Alice Waters involved with the Ameya Preserve?
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• First person:
• • How I taught my kid to curse
• • Growing into a farmer
• • What's in a Montana freezer?
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• • Why school lunches fail
• • Non-total recall: The USDA's lack of authority
• • Shocking! USDA limits 'grass fed' label to meat that actually is
• • Getting to the heart of state meat inspection law
• • The blame frame and corn
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• • Exploring the pastabilities
• • Plotting our Victory Gardens
• • Bake on the wild side
• • Build a solar oven
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• • Maryland's Springfield Farm
• • Eating local in Tucson
• • Winter on a New Hampshire farm
• • Local Burger in Kansas
• • Washington's Estrella Family Creamery
• • The Children's Studio School Garden in DC
• • Searching for raw milk in Vermont
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• Reviews:
• • Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food"
• • Finding common grounds: "Black Gold"
• • Good cob, bad cob: "King Corn"
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• • Smithfield's in deep shit
• • Dave Reichert on global warming

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