Tom Philpott has an important post up on Gristmill today, about the final proposal Congress has finally cobbled together for the 2007 Farm Bill, months late. Should Bush veto it or not?
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The CAFO one-two punch
I am sitting in a swanky conference center on the outskirts of Phoenix, a city that may be one of our country’s least sustainable, where the water is as scarce as the SUVs and air conditioners are numerous. But for all the shortcomings of developers who thought it would be a great idea to build […]
Gary Nabhan wants you to go native for SOLE food
Could native foods be the next big thing in eating? Some people, Gary Nabhan in particular, are working to push things in that direction.
Digest - News: GM soy underperforms conventional, food riots, raw-milk development
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Features: Pollan preaches it, NYT Mag’s Eat Green, Londoners growing food
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to raising grassfed beef to food preservation.
ReDigest: Moyers on hunger, lab liability, a portrait of evil
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
The blame frame, part 2.5: LA Times urges us to miss the point
A while back, I began a series of posts examining the infamous "farm lobby," that oft-mentioned force supposedly responsible for our food system’s many ills. I noticed that mainstream media coverage of the Farm Bill tends to demonize farmers to the exclusion of other, more powerful figures whose fingerprints are all over our grocery carts […]
Digest - News: So Monsanto, going to take on Wal-Mart? Meanwhile, raw milk’s losing
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Features: Farming San Francisco, 0157’s mutant bastard, mo’ milk
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - News: Scary wheat fungus spreading, food prices climbing, don’t blame the soda (right)
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Features: Everybody (hearts) young farmers, meat graders, and organic charts
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Bread rises, and not just from yeast
Around the world there’s growing talk about food crisis as grain prices soar and supplies plummet. They’re talking food riots. And the American Bakers Association marched on Washington.
Meanwhile, in the breadbasket of the nation (a.k.a. Kansas), the price of bread rose yesterday in its best-known bakery, WheatFields. Nobody rioted.
“Today’s the day,” Thom Leonard announced when […]
Digest - News: Downergate public flogging, Farm Bill drags on, salmon sadness
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Features: The coming food storm, activists with cameras, bee breeders
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - News: Apple-moth exposé, payment limit moving forward, food crisis
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
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