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Digest - Features: Eat local NOW, sugar power, chef-farmer matchmaking in Wisconsin
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Farm animal toys recalled for lead levels
Wal-Mart is recalling "realistic-looking" toy animals made in China because of excessive lead levels. The company’s independent testing revealed excessive levels of lead in the base material, not the surface coating. The animal sets were labeled "Farm Animals," "Dinosaurs," and "Jungle Animals." Wal-Mart says it thinks the manufacturer has sold them through other outlets as […]
Digest - Commentary: Farm Bill compromise derided, vets and neighbors hate CAFOs, Kleckner op-ed
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - News: GM corn could harm river ecosystems, microwaveable food safety, conservation coalition
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary & Blogs: Immigration bill, Alice Waters on “The View,” annals of pork
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
Digest Farm & Rural: Farm Bill ad, organic dairy roundabout
This Digest is contributed by our friends at the Center for Rural Affairs.
Farm Bill TV: Oxfam and coalition partners have released a "Farm Bill Reform" television ad in which the hero of the 30-second piece is the American family farmer. The villain? A millionaire subsidy recipient. (YouTube)
Who you going to call?: "Mommy, are we there […]
I bought a quarter of a pig
My search for a supply of sustainable meat is now ended, successfully. Pictured below is a quarter of a pig that is now in my freezer.
I had been calling around town and emailing people, trying to find someone who raises pigs in a sustainable manner. I found a few expensive shops that I could’t possibly […]
Getting to the heart of state meat inspection law
OK, I admit that I was just looking for an animal body part reference for that title. I am under no illusions that this post will get to the heart of much of anything. I am not an expert on state-inspected meat processing (though if it gives me any leverage, I have been inside a […]
Digest - News: Farm Bill languishing, we have a beef with Boxer, more Aurora
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Features: Rats prefer organic, horse exposé, toothpaste hero
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - News: Bluetongue outbreak in UK, transgenic sugar, recalled soy
The latest news & regarding SOLE-food issues, farming, policy, etc. that we think Ethicurean readers will want to know about.
Urban Chicken Park(ing) Day in SF: Clucking awesome
A big thanks to all who came by and visited with the chickens and bought eggs yesterday — I think it went very well. In hindsight, I’m just really glad the rain waited til today, as that would have been a big drag.
Digest - Features & Blogsnacks: Cornucopia, “box turners,” and bye-bye to pigs in the ‘hood
A roundup of current features and featured blog posts of possible interest to Ethicurean readers.
Digest - Research: Recent Congressional Research Service reports
This is the debut of a sporadic digest of somewhat more weighty documents than typical digest items. The "Research" digest will include scientific papers, policy reports, and similar academic items.
Today’s edition is a collection of Congressional Research Service reports. If you have never heard of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), that’s not surprising. […]
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