archive for the 'Fuel as food' Category

Digest: CCD vs. SSDD, food borders awfully insecure, fat-powered initiative

by Ethicurean @ Monday, April 16th, 2007.

What’s the buzz, tell me what’s happening: The wires and the blogs are swarming with speculation over yesterday’s Independent story suggesting a link between the unexplained bee plague known as “colony collapse disorder” and cell phone signals. Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit collects the chatter in one place, including links to those skeptical of CCD […]

Digest: Organic rules changed, irradiation renamed, feed the tank and starve the poor

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007.

Bye-bye, organic coffee, sugar, chocolate?: Sam Fromartz reports on a new ruling by the USDA that dramatically changes how non-U.S. farms are certified organic. Previously, only a small percentage of farms in “grower groups” would be randomly inspected, and the group would then police the remainder’s practices. Writes Fromartz: “The staggered inspection method has been […]

Digest: Rice with human proteins OK’d, Time celebrates la vida locavore, bee CAFOs

by Ethicurean @ Friday, March 2nd, 2007.

A groaning plateful o’ food news today — more than we can possibly eat. Tomorrow’s digest gets the leftovers.
Averting a shitstorm?: The USDA has greenlighted large-scale cultivation in Kansas of rice that produces human immune system proteins in its seeds. The proteins go into an anti-diarrhea medicine for children and might be added to health […]

Digest: Wild birds cleared, USDA censured, protection from transgenic corn

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, February 14th, 2007.

Bird-flu CSI: It’s official — comparison between the UK and Hungarian strains of the avian-flu virus reveals the highest genetic match, much more so than the strains found in wild birds. Press release
Dept. of About Time: A federal judge ruled yesterday that the USDA failed to adequately assess possible environmental impacts before approving Monsanto’s genetically […]

Digest: Food vs. fuel, Midwest movement, cow exodus, local beer

by Ethicurean @ Monday, November 20th, 2006.

Des Moines Register: A rather terrifying article about the ethanol industry’s insatiable demand for corn, which is leading farmers to forgo the soybean rotation that returns much-needed nitrogen to the soil, meat producers to feed as much leftover “distiller’s grain” as animals can tolerate, and everybody to rely more  on genetically modified strains. [Corn Maven […]

Digest: Local hero, tater hots, mad Japanese cow, corn winners & losers

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, November 14th, 2006.

Houston Chronicle: Columnist Neal Pierce urges readers to have a “100-Mile Thanksgiving” and explains once again to skeptical Texans why buying local makes sense on many levels.
New York Magazine: Highlighting what’s available now at New York’s Greenmarkets, this article made us want to try all the different varieties of potato.
AP/Seattle P-I: Japan has confirmed its […]

Digest: The crises in rice and corn, beyond-organic gurus, BB fight

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, November 5th, 2006.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: very informative article about how badly the discovery of genetically engineered rice hiding in an export shipment has hurt the U.S. rice industry, with Arkansas the biggest loser. (Arkansas grows roughly $800 million worth of the $1.3 billion U.S. rice market; it’s the state’s biggest crop.) The solution, says the industry — which […]

Digest: Organic chains, Bioneers fun guy, from garbage to biogas

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, October 26th, 2006.

Grist: Fast food is going organic — or is the other way around? Either way, it’s not as bad as we thought.
L.A. Weekly: Finally, an article that reports on Bioneers without tongue jammed mockingly in cheek. This one covers Paul Stamets, the “mushroom guy” — the world’s premier mycologist, actually — who has 11 patents […]

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