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Weekend Digest: Organic beer, water depletion, and food as both fuel and fuel producer

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Sunday, July 9th, 2006.

Here is what we are reading as we contemplate France’s hard-headed exit from the World Cup Finals.
Boston Globe: At least one major brewer has decided to test the organic beer market. Local organic beers have been around for a number of years and include: Butte Creek Brewing (California); Fish Brewing (Washington); Peak Organic […]

Independence from GMOs, why fire works

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Tuesday, July 4th, 2006.

Washington Post: Anti-GMO activist Jeremey Rifkin’s editorial cautiously welcomes the rise of a new genomic technology — marker-assisted selection (MAS) — that will increase crop yields and pest resistance without relying on splicing in genes from other species. Except GMO crops may have already contaminated non-GMO crops enough to make MAS more difficult.
NPR: Morning Edition […]

Digest: East Coast rains decimate farms, Daryl Hannah, Southern organic farms, virtual farmer’s markets, and grass fed beef

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Friday, June 30th, 2006.

Here is what we are reading as we mourn Argentina’s loss to Germany:
Washington Post: Heavy rains and flood deliver terrible blow to Eastern Shore farmers’ livelihoods, including drowning tens of thousands of chickens in closed coops. (DQ editorializing: Why didn’t they open the doors, I wonder? They would have floated….I find this unbearably sad.)
People magazine: […]

Might As Well Eat

by Miss Steak @ Sunday, June 25th, 2006.

Frank Bruni’s piece in today’s NYT captures the schizophrenia and confusion surrounding meat consumption in the current dietgeist (as Dairy Queen calls it). Free-range isn’t really free any more, lobsters suffer in their holding tanks and will no longer be offered for sale and slaughter at Whole Foods, foie gras is under attack, wild caught […]

Tasty Bits

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Friday, June 23rd, 2006.

Here are a few tasty bits to start your weekend.
Topeka Capital-Journal (free registration required): Local Burger in Lawrence, Kansas serves fast food made with locally sourced organic ingredients.
Soil Association: The Soil Association has a roundup of recent studies on the effects of GMO foods on health, including links to studies by Monsanto. Among the […]

Snacking between meals

by Bonnie P. @ Wednesday, June 21st, 2006.

Starting yesterday, the Ethicurean team has committed to a rotation system that we hope means our readers will never go hungry. Miss Steak will post something juicy and rare on Mondays, Man of La Muncha will masticate macho-ly on Tuesdays, Omniwhore will get you over — or off — Hump Day, Dairy Queen will try […]

Alt-ag goes to college

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Saturday, June 3rd, 2006.

Washington State University has announced a new Major in Organic Agriculture, the first of its kind in the United States. It is not clear how closely the program will follow sustainable practices such as the ones promoted by WSU’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources (CSANR), but it is clear that Wazzu’s decision was […]

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