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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 crackdown on farmer Richard Bean of Double H, who
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Digest – News: Another day, another million pounds of beef recalled
Gazillionth recall + question for readers: Cargill is recalling more than 1 million pounds of ground beef after a USDA test found E. coli. The meat was distributed to retailers across the country, including Giant, ShopRite, Wegmans and Weis. Now a reader poll: How many of you buy factory ground beef
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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Hey Californians — like your raw milk? Drink fast.
About one year ago, my mom, son, and I attended the rally in which Mark McAfee announced the end of the Organic Pastures recall for E. coli 0157:H7. So many interesting people were there. I met families from the Bay Area and Southern California. I shared mountain-blackberry water kefir out of the trunk
Digest – Blogs: Peterson flayed, Monsanto behavior dissected, Kroger milk tracking
Collin it as she sees it: Kat rips House Ag Chair and "Bush Dog Democrat" Collin Peterson a new cornhole over his recent comments about organic food. (Eating Liberally) Monsanto accidentally
Digest – News: Grassless beef, Monsanto’s rBST pep rallies, sugar wants in on ethanol
Desperate for greener pastures: More beef producers are going grass-fed. Or they would be, if they had grass. The Southeast's "exceptional" drought -- the kind that comes around only once or twice every 100 years -- and extreme weather elsewhere are crippling many of the newcomers' attempts.
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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 – 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 – News: Save our schoolkids (from their lunches), another E. coli outbreak, mass fish slaughter
Basic nutrition 101: The Washington Post reports that Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) has introduced a bill that would have the government set new nutritional standards for the foods and drinks
Digest – Commentary: Aurora Dairy vs. the world, Pollan talks to food manufacturer, most beef drug-free
Sam, have you been served yet?: "Organic, Inc" author Sam Fromartz lets fly the latest salvo in the war of words between Aurora Organic Dairy and its critics. Rebutting Aurora's "they hate us big guys" defense
Digest – Features: Heirloom bees, canning is hot, raw-milk cheesemakers unite
Bee-coming an apiarist: Keeping bees is a dying pastime, so much so that the "heirloom" strains of native bees have almost vanished. Can people with just a few hives in their backyard really make any difference? (New York Times) "Pickling
Confession of an organic mega-dairy
“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. This is my first confession. I have knowingly sold milk from cows suffering from Absencia Grassosis.” “My son, God knows what is in your heart.” “Yes, Father. For two
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Digest – Commentary & Blogsnacks: Aurora talks back, Johanns departure analyzed, Alice Waters blogs
COMMENTARY Aurora Organic fights back in print: A rebuttal to Sam Fromartz's coverage, from the Colorado dairy that had its organic certification threatened. "Some observers, whose glasses of organic milk are always half-empty, lament the fact that what began as the organic-food movement has evolved
Cheese Baby visits the Estrella Family Creamery
From our Seattle correspondent Jenni P.: Anthony Estrella calls my daughter the Cheese Baby, and since she’s been old enough to talk she’s called him the Cheese Man. We’ve been buying cheese from Anthony at Seattle farmers markets for the past couple of years. Every week we take home
Digest – News: Biofuel savior, Organic Pastures cream recalled, organic food more nutritious
The Holy Grail of fuel plants?: The poisonous black seeds of a seemingly worthless weed may be a potentially ideal source of biofuel. Developing nations are in a mad race to plant jatropha, which can grow in marginal soil or beside food crops, does not require a lot of fertilizer, and yields many times
