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Wal-Mart sees the locavore light

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Sunday, July 6th, 2008.

The Associated Press reports that Wal-Mart plans to spend $400 million on locally grown produce this year.

Salon.com plays the locavoreanism-debunking game

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Saturday, June 28th, 2008.

The type of article lamented by a few commenters on my recent post about food miles vs. food choices made an appearance in Salon a few days ago.
Starting with a provocative headline (”Is local food really miles better?”) and subtitle (”Many of us now count ‘food miles.’ But local fruits and veggies may not be […]

Meeting my meat at Garden of Eden/Lionette’s Market in Boston

by Guest @ Friday, April 18th, 2008.

A beef butchering workshop at Lionette’s Market in Boston is a recipe for sustainability and responsible sourcing, with a healthy helping of community.

Digest - Blogs: Biotech & veggie protectionism, revenge of spent cows

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 6th, 2008.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

Digest - Features: Big local, organic Apple; Temple Grandin on the ‘guest test,’ proposed new nutrition label

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, January 3rd, 2008.

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

Digest - Features: Hugh F-W and Jamie Oliver to set feathers flying, grass-fed beef ranchers in unlikely places

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, December 30th, 2007.

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

Chewin’ in Charleston

by Peter aka Nosher of the North @ Thursday, November 29th, 2007.

Noshette and I went down south to Charleston, South Carolina, to attend a wedding of an old childhood friend of hers and we did a little bit of Ethicureanating while we were there. (once the word Ethicurean gets an entry in the dictionary, we’ll have to figure out how to conjugate it.)
A quick bit of […]

Digest - Blogs: Let’s scrap the Farm Bill, winter marketing, the golden age of apples

by Ethicurean @ Saturday, November 17th, 2007.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

Digest - Commentary: Tesco to open in poor neighborhoods, Monbiot on biofuels, GMO warriors

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, November 7th, 2007.

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

Getting a feel for Philadelphia’s local-food scene

by Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen @ Saturday, October 20th, 2007.

Note to RSS readers: Flash-based slideshow is embedded in post.

When you come from a smaller city in a rural area and your main local-foods choices consist of a couple of upscale restaurants or your own home cooking (with produce from the farmers market, of course), sometimes you want to know what it’s like to have […]

Is the success of farmers markets hurting farmers?

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Friday, September 21st, 2007.

[Updated on 9/22 to include positive sentiments from farmers about farmers markets]
Just as I was thinking that the Bay Area is enjoying a golden age of farmers markets, with a multitude of farmers markets bringing fresh, local food directly from the farm to the consumer, reality drops in: farmers markets can be an inefficient […]

Digest - News & Commentary: Bee breakthrough, popcorn lung, progressive grocers

by Ethicurean @ Friday, September 7th, 2007.

A roundup of current news and commentary about everything from Farm Bill updates to backyard chickens, transgenic foods, E. coli recalls, and sustainable fish.

“Fresh beets”!

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, August 30th, 2007.

Heaven knows that "the lower-middle portion of the food pyramid" could use some grassroots advertising … but I don’t think this video, made by two guys working in the produce section of an A&P, is it. You can’t beet the silly wordplay, however, and I think it’s a shame that the supermarket chain thinks […]

Catching up: Washington State locavoreanism

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Tuesday, August 21st, 2007.

The Butter Bitch and I have been on hiatus for the past few months, due to our day jobs and ongoing projects. The Seattle Times’ Pacific Northwest Sunday Magazine devotes most of this week’s issue to an overview of Washington’s locavorean movement and the promotion of sustainability in the wine.
The Bounty Around Us looks at […]

What the Australian supermarket takeover means

by Jillian @ Saturday, July 7th, 2007.

Wesfarmers has made a takeover bid for the Coles Group, which includes Australia’s second most successful supermarket chain, after Woolworths. This week the National Association of Retail Grocers in Australia, which represents independent grocery groups such as IGA and Foodworks, released a report showing Coles and Woolworths controlled 79% of the market. By comparison, it […]

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