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Digest – Features: A game of chicken, school snacks showdown, Romanian rituals

By • on December 4, 2007

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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The plot quickens: The Children’s Studio School Garden in DC

By • on October 28, 2007

Those of us who are passionate about local foods tend to use point-by-point logical arguments to persuade our friends and families to support local farmers and food producers: freshness, taste, ethics, environmental considerations,

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Digest – Features: A+ for bee-minus story, cattlemen no supertasters, farming is poisoning our drinking water

By • on October 17, 2007

Queen of the bees: Colony collapse disorder in U.S. bees "may have many contributing causes," writes Gina Covina in this terrific Ecology Center Terrain article posted on AlterNet, "but it comes down to bees hitting the biological

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Digest – Blogs: Foie gras formula, we all (heart) Fergus Henderson

By • on October 17, 2007

Applying the Learned Hand formula to foie gras: According to a wonderfully nerdy post at Law For Food, PETA should really be concentrating on improving feedlot conditions, instead of the low-hanging livers. Paté, Montana

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