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Digest - Features: Big local, organic Apple; Temple Grandin on the ‘guest test,’ proposed new nutrition label
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Blogs: Lawyer eyes raw milk wars, reporter eyes pasteurized milk outbreak
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
Digest - News: Tomato pay raise endangered, Smithfield rejects clones, organic fish debated
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Are locavores hurting African farmers?
Are the locavores — those who strive to eat a diet of locally produced foods — responsible for the ruination of poor African farmers? The headline — "Farmers in developing world hurt by ‘eat local’ philosophy in U.S." — of an op-ed in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle certainly makes that charge. The […]
Digest - Features: Locavore hit Parade, ethical certifiers, attack of the Chinese tomatoes
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
“Locavore” chosen as word of the year
The New Oxford American Dictionary has selected “locavore” as the word that best reflects “the ethos of the year” and has “lasting potential as a word of cultural significance and use.” W00t!
Digest - Features: Food labeling follies, Madison reflects, “King Corn” hits Iowa
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
A food-values pyramid for Ethicureans
On their website, Organic Valley tells newly conscious eaters that the USDA organic seal is just a starting point, with “emphasis on foundation. It’s only the beginning of where you might find yourself in the years to come as your organic lifestyle evolves.”
Digest - News: AgSec threatens Farm Bill veto, farmworkers win pesticide lawsuit
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Digest - News: New AgSec nominated, organic food is superior (duh), meat zombies
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Digest - Features: A woman’s place, corn-grower Q&A, Farm Bill failure looms
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Hey Californians — like your raw milk? Drink fast.
On October 8, 2007, Governor Schwarzenegger approved AB 1735. It will cripple the raw dairy industry in California.
Ruminating on the grass-fed label backlash
Given that the USDA’s new standards for the label “grass-fed” seem laudably straightforward and sensible to me — just an informed eater, not a farmer and certainly no expert — I was surprised to find that small farmers I admire, along with the American Grassfed Association, think they are a travesty.
Digest - News: Farm Bill “compromise,” mystery spray clouds, John Edwards gets rural
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• Do know eVilsack: Former Iowa governor perhaps not such a bad potential Ag Sec?
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