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The water wars: California’s salmon vs. agribiz interests
By Paul Johnson Chinook salmon fishing has been scaled way back in California. Photo: Zureks/Wikimedia I've been selling fish for 30 years, and I'm pleased that my store, the Monterey Fish Market, has a reputation for exceptionally fresh and sustainably sourced seafood.
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Canadian restaurants that serve seal come in for criticism
“It’s no worse than veal”: The handful of restaurants in Canada that serve seal got a boost last month, when the European Union banned imports of commercially caught Canadian seal products. Canada allows two different hunts each year: a small one by Inuits in the Arctic that pretty much no one
Lack of hippo manure tips ecosystem into failure
Hippo-suction: From Lake Edward in war-torn central Africa comes another example of the complexity of nature. The lake was once a rich and reasonably well-managed source of fish for the region, but now fishing nets are coming up empty. Reasons include unlicensed boats, fishing in the normally off-limits
Bay Area hunting club shoots and shares wild game
Full-boar assault: The Bull Moose Hunting Society, a hunting club and wild game cooperative based in San Francisco, connects "city folk eager to gain intimacy with the capture and slaughter of the animals they eat." The society helps soft-fingered newbies through the hunting license process, advises
Beware: Pirates patrol these waters
By Ben Bowman For the fish-loving Ethicurean, pensive while paddling a small craft through the treacherous Straits of Seafood Uncertainty, the signal ‘Safe Passage Ahead’ beamed from a passing research ship is more than enough to make the heart lift and quicken. This
Pollan painting #3: Sequoia National Pork
The latest in a series of interpretive paintings done by 5-year-old Frederick, inspired by his mother's reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and summarizing it for him. (See #1, Children of the corn and 1 Comment • Read more »
Digest - Commentary: Bottle ballast, foxy argument
California wines turned back in Ohio: Our blog-buddy Tyler Colman lands his "red, white, and green" wine carbon-footprint research in the Times' op-ed section. (New York Times) And a pheasant holiday to you too: Commentator
Digest - Commentary: Pollan on “sustainability,” more locavore perspectives
Pollan is nice and green, naturally: Michael Pollan uses two of this year's alarming crises — Colony Collapse Disorder in bees and drug-resistant staph (MRSA) that may originate from antibiotics fed to hogs — to illuminate, in his usual elegant way, the breakdown of our cheap-food system,
Digest - Features: Locavore hit Parade, ethical certifiers, attack of the Chinese tomatoes
Praise Jesus. And call Oprah!: Parade magazine — mainstream America's bible — has a story on seeking out locally grown foods for Thanksgiving. Now if we can just get him
Digest - Blogsnacks: Raw milk, Alice Waters updates; wine’s carbon footprint, defining local
Calling all Californian raw-milk drinkers: David Gumpert is chronicling all the latest twists and turns in the shady saga of AB1735, the handful of words that may have consigned raw milk to the compost pile in California. A raw-food advocate plans to file a court injunction and launch a class action
Digest - Features: Pollan Q&A, the bee middleman, some wild donations to hunger cause
Two P's in a partnership: As part of its "Sow What" special series of food and farming, Grist columnist Tom Philpott interviews Michael Pollan in a Q&A that blessedly doesn't go over the same tired soil (except the Cracker Jacks). Interesting nuggets: congresspeople are now calling Pollan
LivingSmall in Montana: What’s in your freezer?
Please welcome a new contributor from the real West, Charlotte McGuinn Freeman, who writes the LivingSmall blog, grows a garden, and is restoring a 1903 bungalow in Livingston, Montana. She's too modest to say so herself, but she's also the author of the novel
Digest: Bacteria love, food bill of rights, more hogfarm lawsuits, Glassner revisited
Fiber — like armor for your gut: Thought there was nothing new to say about last year's E. coli outbreaks? Think again. This op-ed says the best defense against the bad bugs starts with your own stomach: eat more fiber, so your gut's bacteria can fight off invaders. Recommended are onions, leeks, garlic,
Digest: Future food-industry scientists, stealthy Pepsi, turkey hunting in Napa
New York Times*: The youth organization once known as Future Farmers of America is thriving, having dropped any reference to actual farming from its name. The membership has changed as well: more FFA members now come from towns &
Digest: Where the wild things aren’t, Terra firma plans, slo-growing
Diner's Journal/NYT blog: Ever take a walk on the wild side in restaurants? Dairy Queen likes to — which is why she's shocked and embarrassed to learn from NY Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni that by law, the "wild" game served in U.S.
