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Review: New documentary “Food Fight” is more of a lovefest
Ethicurean headquarters in Oakland, CA, should have been the home stadium for a preview screening of "Food Fight," the new documentary by Chris Taylor. After all, this "story of culinary revolt" covers the damage wrought
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Finding real food on the road — all the way across America
By Stephanie Pierce My husband and I recently finished a summer-long adventure in which we toured the northern half of the United
Food politics gets a prestigious platform, with Michael Pollan’s manifesto in this Sunday’s NYT Magazine
Michael Pollan — the closest thing the sustainable food movement has to a leader, even if he insists on pretending he remains just a journalist — wants the next president of the United States to pull weeds from the organically managed South Lawn Victory Garden; donate its surplus tons of food to
California’s raw-milk bill — skimmed?
California’s ongoing drama about permitting raw (unpasteurized) milk to be sold in stores has turned sour once again this week. Just when it looked like proposed legislation palatable to the raw dairy industry — that would allow those that implemented a more holistic food-safety program to opt out
“End Times” for Nebraska Beef?
The wave of ground-beef recalls entangling even Whole Foods has grown to tsunami proportions for Nebraska Beef Ltd.: the amount of beef recalled has reached
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California raw milk: Headed for a HACCP?
California legislators, food safety experts, and raw milk advocates met this evening in Sacramento to discuss improving raw milk safety. Legislators passed new language in October that required producers to meet much stricter bacteria
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When discrimination is more than OK: Time to call our reps about pesticide policy
Update 4/10: We're hearing from our confidential intel sources on the Hill (OK, an action alert I just received) that the deadline for asking your reps to sign the letter mentioned below has been extended until mid-day tomorrow, 4/11. I just called my rep. The feeling of fulfillment is immense... try
Digest – Features: Abattoir ambitions, grain stampede, farming the bluefin
Locally raised, locally slaughtered: Farmer Cheryl Ouellette raises pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks on her Summit farm in Pierce County, WA, but she has to drive them all over to be slaughtered. Which is why she's on fire to get a mobile abattoir built — and with all the interest she's sparked,
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How I taught my kid to curse…and why I blame Big Food
We're very pleased to bring you this guest post from Ali, as we've long been fans of her blog. Ali says she was once a nugget-snarfing, soda-guzzling, TV dinner kind of gal. Since then she has come to her senses, and is doing her best to raise healthy kids in a Froot Snack world. When she's not at her
Nuggets of truth: The Charlotte Observer carves up the poultry industry
As the massive outcry in response to the Humane Society's expose of a California beef-processing plant shows, Americans are extremely sensitive to the mistreatment of animals — even those we intend to eat. It would be nice if
The jury is in: A review of Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food”
In December 2005 I quit smoking, after 12 years of a cigarette habit that sometimes reached a pack a day. After many, many failed attempts that included nicotine patches, Wellbutrin, and even hypnotherapy (I lit up five minutes after the session), I read a book by Allen Carr called “The Easy Way
Digest – Commentary & Blogs: NYT discovers eating local isn’t always green, Alex Avery pretends feedlot beef is
It's about mindset, not just footprint: We recently called the New York Times main investigative food & ag reporter the "always-excellent" Andrew Martin, but after the Sunday installment of his column The Feed,
Digest – Features: Farmers, dairymen protest govt crackdowns; rare farm-animal breeds; superbugs coming
Note: So many good features since Sunday that we've had to stash half of them after the jump. Rebels with a cause: This kick-ass feature from the Charlottesville weekly C-Ville looks at the government
Digest – Blogs: The war on raw milk, providing a social oasis in a food desert
“It’s like an undeclared war”: David Gumpert talks to Pete Kennedy, a Weston A. Price Foundation lawyer who's in the middle of many of the state and federal cases involving raw milk, about why the government is sooo concerned for the safety of a few "oddballs." (The
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Events: Milk ‘n’ Honey play puts spotlight on what we eat
Back in February at the Food and Society Conference, I met Nicole Betancourt, the producer of the cool-sounding Food Theater Project in New York City, which she told me was in rehearsals for a play about what we eat. Well, the curtain's gone up on Milk 'n' Honey, it's been reviewed by the New
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