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The politics of world food shortages
In today’s New York Times, Andy Martin reports from Rome on an emergency summit called to address food shortages, climate change, and energy, while a recent New Yorker essay puts the food crisis in context of Thomas Malthus’s famous predictions that population growth would be curbed by famine.
Are tomatoes the kickoff to food-illness season?
Ugh. Looks like our industrial food system is cranking out the salmonella for broad distribution again. That’s the word from the latest Food and Drug Administration consumer alert. The current culprit: tomatoes. Where? Texas and New Mexico. Oh, and maybe Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, and Utah, too.
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Snacks for the ears: Podcasts with authors Frederick Kaufman, Paul Roberts, Taras Grescoe, and more
Catching up on podcasts this weekend I listened to a few that might interest Ethicurean readers: Fredrick Kaufman talking about America’s eating history, Good Food from KCRW talking about sustainable seafood and backyard chickens, and Paul Roberts talking about his new book “The End of Food” on On Point Radio.
Digest - News: GM soy underperforms conventional, food riots, raw-milk development
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary: Monbiot on veganism, Philpott on the middle, Moonies on Borlaug
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
ReDigest: Moyers on hunger, lab liability, a portrait of evil
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Blogs: DC compost, OJ explored, Lappe tries to save the small planet
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
Digest - News: So Monsanto, going to take on Wal-Mart? Meanwhile, raw milk’s losing
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary: Fixing the eco*nomy, the whack-a-mole Averys
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Features: Farming San Francisco, 0157’s mutant bastard, mo’ milk
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: Farmers as serfs, re-naturalized landscapes, Logsdon on carnivorism
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
Digest - News: Scary wheat fungus spreading, food prices climbing, don’t blame the soda (right)
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Features: Everybody (hearts) young farmers, meat graders, and organic charts
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Commentary & Blogs: Organic+GM0s=win-win?; Swim with Jim; PB & Jeffries
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
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