archive for the 'Organic vs. industrial' Category

Digest - Blogs: DC compost, OJ explored, Lappe tries to save the small planet

by Ethicurean @ Monday, April 21st, 2008.

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

Getting down to Brassica tacks: A recipe for roasted cauliflower salad

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Tuesday, April 8th, 2008.

I’ve always been tickled by the pairing of decadence and duty at the Swanton Berry Farm stand at the Berkeley farmers market: sweet, fragrant, addictive strawberries sharing the table with fibrous, disrespected, and most-likely-not-addictive broccoli, cauliflower, and brussels sprouts. It turns out that this collection makes a lot of agricultural sense, as strawberries are […]

Saving the songbirds (and ourselves)

by Elanor @ Sunday, March 30th, 2008.

Today’s New York Times featured an op-ed by Bridget Stutchbury, a biology professor at the University of Toronto and author of Silence of the Songbirds. Her book follows in the footsteps of Silent Spring and documents the rapid disappearance of migratory songbirds — by her account, a 50% decline in the last four decades — […]

The blame frame, part 2.5: LA Times urges us to miss the point

by Elanor @ Tuesday, March 25th, 2008.

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 […]

Innovative process turns any vegetable organic in seconds

by Guest @ Tuesday, March 18th, 2008.

Agribusiness stocks rose sharply today, following the announcement this morning of a new technique that transforms conventionally raised produce into organic, instantly and at almost no cost.

Digest - Features: Everybody (hearts) young farmers, meat graders, and organic charts

by Ethicurean @ Monday, March 17th, 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 - Blogs: Obama comes to black farmers’ defense

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, March 9th, 2008.

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

Why does Kaiser Permanente support both farmers markets and industrial “meal replacement systems”?

by Bonnie P. @ Wednesday, March 5th, 2008.

Kaiser’s for-profit side, the Permanente Medical Group, has apparently not gotten the message of what edible items constitute “healthy.”

Pesticides, like the huddled masses, yearn to be free

by Elanor @ Friday, January 18th, 2008.

The Farm Bill is back. (Admit it — you’d been missing it.) House and Senate ag staffers have taken to lurking in each other’s offices and furrowing their brows over what could be a protracted conflict between members of the conference committee, that group of reps and senators assigned to turn the meat grinder on […]

Bigger and badder: Prof. Phil Howard on consolidation in the organic industry

by Bonnie P. @ Tuesday, December 18th, 2007.

Q&A with Phil Howard, assistant professor of community, agriculture, recreation and resource studies at Michigan State University, about the impact of consolidation in the organic industry, the concentration ratio principle of economics, the Whole Foods-Wild Oats merger, and more.

Digest - Commentary & Blogs: NYT discovers eating local isn’t always green, Alex Avery pretends feedlot beef is

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, December 9th, 2007.

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

Digest - Commentary & Blogs: Scary new pesticide, folic acid solution, post-peak-oil soil

by Ethicurean @ Friday, December 7th, 2007.

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

USDA requests comments on leafy greens rulemaking

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Friday, November 30th, 2007.

Following last fall’s crisis over E. coli contamination of spinach, the growers, distributors and retailers of salad mix started talking about improving their safety practices. A fair amount of activity in this area has been happening in California, including some bills in the legislature and voluntary standards like the Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement. (Be […]

Digest - Features: Methyl bromide alive and kicking in Cali, beyond-kosher movement

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, November 29th, 2007.

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

by Bonnie P. @ Sunday, November 11th, 2007.

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.”

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