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Digest – News: Farm Bill deals, Utah milk labeling, dairy-cow Crohn’s connection
The Ethicureans were assisted in these posts by Leslie, on loan from the Eat Well Guide, and Jack of Fork & Bottle (who was not responsible for any typos you may find). If you only read one Farm Bill status report…: It should
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Digest – Commentary: Local adversaries, calling out Monsanto, ‘toon time
Our "free market" is bullshit: An eye-opening op-ed by a Midwestern farmer about what happened when, unable to meet demand, he leased acreage on a corn farm to grow fruits and vegetables. (New
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Postcard from the World Ag Expo
Last week marked the largest proportion of climate change naysayers gathered in one place since Dick Cheney walked into an empty room. Volunteers at the entrance to the World Ag Expo in Tulare, California, screened people as they presented their ticket. “Do
An open letter to Monsanto
Oh, Monsanto. Just look at you. You've got your knit cap pulled down tight over your crew cut, and your stomach is sticking out beneath your skull-and-crossbones T-shirt. Your face is riddled with acne, and your eyes are all hard and mean. You've been left back a few grades now — summer school doesn't
Kansas Legislature joins list of those who prefer consumers stay ignorant
Members of the Kansas Legislature have joined the esteemed lawmakers or regulators in Pennsylvania, Indiana
Non-total recall: The USDA’s lack of authority
A line of 7,500 trucks stretching 85 miles. That's what it would take to haul the nearly 300 million pounds of meat and poultry products that were recalled between January 1, 1994, and November 30, 2007, in 773 separate incidents. These eye-popping numbers come from the appendix of a Congressional
California raw milk update: A new commission, instead of a reversal
The hopes of more than 700 California raw-milk supporters following last week's seeming victory in Sacramento were dashed today in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. The issue of raw-milk safety and California bacteria standards
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More Midwest Battles in Milk Labeling: Indiana
Indiana joined Pennsylvania and Ohio this week in an effort to ban the use of growth hormone-related
Digest – Clones as Food special edition
This is a special edition of the Digest devoted to reactions to the Food and Drug Administration's determination that clones and their milk are safe for consumption. Rick Weiss reports on the USDA's request for a "voluntary moratorium"
Go goat: Finding goat dairy products
Peek in our fridge and you'll find goat milk, goat butter, and a variety of goat cheeses -- my daughter is allergic to casein (one of milk's proteins) and I'm sensitive to lactose (its sugar). Goat milk, like cow milk, has both, but in a structure and an amount that makes it easier for our overly sensitive
Digest – Features: Food in ’08, immigration ideals, NPR on hormone-free labeling
Dietgeist predictions around the media: The Philadelphia Inquirer sees more "local, fresh, natural, organic" offerings on our horizon (although we shudder to think we might be getting them from convenience
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Digest – News: PA still mulling “rBST-free” labels, USDA admits impotence, will flu make pigs fly?
Organic milk sales to skyrocket in Pennsylvania: That's the only silver lining in the news that as of Feb. 1, Pennsylvanian consumers won't be able to tell the difference between milk from farms that inject their cows with rBST and that from those that don't — unless the governor blocks the move
Digest – Commentary: Philpott on cheap-food schadenfreude, rBST booster, make our own damn Farm Bill
Because those who can't do, teach?: "If the end of cheap oil has so far been a bust for the environment, can the end of cheap food do any better?" asks Tom Philpott, who goes on to argue that pricier food probably won't equal more conscious consumption, lower obesity rates, or better environmental
Digest – News: Congress gets SOLE (nice timing!), salmon problems, milk labeling scandal
O how we (heart) thou, Carolyn Lochhead: Under the cheery headline "Pelosi Leads the House to Go Organic in its Cafeterias," the Chronicle's Farm Bill reporter leads with a punch in the gut — "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have left her progressive instincts at the barn door when
Digest – News: Answer to Alice Waters mystery, Farm Bill stalls again, avian flu back in UK
Umbrellas up, chickens — there's a deluge of catch-up links since last weekend's Digesting. O how we hate it when the RSS-feed headlines top 4,000. Alice on the Ameya Preserve: In a Wall Street Journal story titled "Politically Correct Developments: Montana Project Raises Ante for PC Amenities,"
