archive for the 'Globalization' Category

Digest - Features: The coming food storm, activists with cameras, bee breeders

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 13th, 2008.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

Thinking about carbon “foodprints”

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Sunday, March 2nd, 2008.

The February 25 issue of The New Yorker has an important article by staff writer Michael Specter about some of the economic, logistical, and moral issues related to our individual contributions to the climate crisis* (our "carbon footprints"). In his exploration of the topic, he covers product labeling for food miles, carbon emissions, offset programs, […]

Digest - Commentary: Philpott on cheap-food schadenfreude, rBST booster, make our own damn Farm Bill

by Ethicurean @ Friday, December 21st, 2007.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Sugar policy makes my head buzz

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Friday, October 26th, 2007.

Not the sugar buzz I was hoping for
Sometimes the twists and turns of farm and trade policy makes me dizzy. Today’s example: sugar.
To explain this properly, I’d probably need the creators of the Meatrix to make a short animation, but I’ll give it a try, with my information coming from a New York […]

“The Dying Fields: India’s Forgotten Farmers” on PBS

by Bonnie P. @ Tuesday, August 28th, 2007.

(The Dying Fields: India’s Forgotten Farmers - TV - Review - New York Times )ht on PBS about farmers in India caught in a debt nightmare, you may find yourself thinking at first of America’s mortgage mess.But by the end, don’t be surprised if your neurons, always eager to categorize the new and the incomprehensible, give an entirely different spin to the strange goings-on the program documents: These impoverished cotton farmers have traits in common with suicide bombers.No, they are not blowing up bystanders in the name of a god or a political cause…. And the government support system in this country is close to non-existent - the central cause of the enormous distress that so many of them have had here in central India in the cotton farming belt.It is interesting to compare the transformation of the Indian economy and where the rural economy fits in, with what happened in the United States during the 1980s where we saw massive transformation of its rural farm economy.

Digest - News & Commentary: plants take antibiotics, USDA plans GMO overhaul

by Ethicurean @ Friday, July 13th, 2007.

Unintentional "pharming" : University of Minnesota researchers have found that food crops grown in soil nourished with antibiotic-laced animal manure (such as waste from a hog CAFO) will store the antibiotics throughout the plant. Ironically, organic farmers are most dependent on animal manure as a source of crop nutrition. (Science Daily)
123 not for me: OCA […]

International trade agreements and your food

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Monday, July 2nd, 2007.

At midnight on June 30, President Bush’s "Fast Track Trade Authority" expired.
Fast Track allowed the President to submit trade deals to Congress for a simple up or down vote — no amendments allowed — thus simplifying the negotiating process. It has been around since the mid-1970s, with a few periods of hiatus. Trade boosters like […]

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