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Digest – Features: A game of chicken, school snacks showdown, Romanian rituals
Local food needs local infrastructure: Burt's Hilltop Poultry, a family-run custom and organic poultry processor in Utica, Minnesota, is closing down. If no one buys it, say local farmers, its passing will damage the local food network, drive up poultry prices, and push small organic farms out of business. (Worthington
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Baumans Cedar Valley Farms: It takes a family to produce pastured eggs
Bonnie here: We're pleased to announce that Janet Majure, who has guest-posted for us peviously from Lawrence, Kansas, has donned an Ethicurean team apron. Janet is a mom and has written about cooking for years for newspapers; she started her blog, foodperson.com,
Missoula, MT is for the birds — and against them, too
Meloukhia (along with my BoingBoing-reading husband) alerts us to a
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 – Features: Eat local NOW, sugar power, chef-farmer matchmaking in Wisconsin
PBS goes locavore: The "Now" show does a big package on the "grow local, eat local" movement that includes a terrific video segment featuring Appalachian ex-tobacco farmers, now organic; as well as Steven Hopp — husband of Barbara Kingsolver, who spent a year living off the
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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,
Digest – Commentary: Farm Bill compromise derided, vets and neighbors hate CAFOs, Kleckner op-ed
"A Deal With the Devil": The Center for Rural Affairs staff have been practically live-blogging the Senate Farm Bill fight all day long on their Blog for Rural America. They decided to call Reform's time of death at about 4:30 p.m. with this blistering
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Digest – News: GM corn could harm river ecosystems, microwaveable food safety, conservation coalition
Whoopsy, guess we forgot to test for that: An Indiana University study suggests that Bt corn, the widely planted genetically engineered corn, could harm aquatic ecosystems by killing insects that fish commonly feed on. The study also shows that parts of Bt corn can travel as far as 2,000 meters away
Digest – Commentary & Blogs: Immigration bill, Alice Waters on “The View,” annals of pork
COMMENTARY Pick this legislation, Senator: Why Congress should pass a bill known as AgJobs, a bipartisan measure with broad support in the farm industry and among farmworker organizations. (New York Times) Stamp of disapproval: An editorial
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.
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 number of state-inspected
Digest – News: Farm Bill languishing, we have a beef with Boxer, more Aurora
Farm Bill delayed, again: Even though we're currently Farm Bill-less — the 2002 one effectively ended Sunday — the Senate mark-up of the 2007 bill is being pushed back once again. Why? They want the Finance Committee to go first, so they know how much money they have to work with. Um, shouldn't
Digest – Features: Rats prefer organic, horse exposé, toothpaste hero
The rat's nose knows quality: Given a choice of biscuits made from organic or conventional wheat, 40 Swiss rats ate significantly more of the former. While organic advocates everywhere start jigging, writer and food scientist Harold McGee blows right past this revelation, explaining that it could be
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Digest – News: Bluetongue outbreak in UK, transgenic sugar, recalled soy
Work, cooking, and chickens have gotten in the way of news collecting and blogging lately, and the Digest has thus had its longest-ever break. Rather than deluge you with news stories well-masticated elsewhere, the above-the-fold portions of these Digest posts contain just the most current (or the most
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