In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
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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: New AgSec nominated, organic food is superior (duh), meat zombies
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Food and Farm Bill special
For some pre-Halloween thrills and chills, this digest is all about that zombie-, vampire- and Frankenstein-filled piece of legislation called the Food and Farm Bill.
Late last week, the Senate Agriculture Committee completed its work on the bill and sent it to the full Senate, where it will be debated in a few weeks. The debate […]
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.
“Dumb enough,” and healthier and happier for it
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), speaking to a reporter at the Financial Times:
For whatever reason, people are willing to pay two or three times as much for something that says ‘organic’ or ‘local’. Far be it from me to understand what that’s about, […]
Farm tour: Pressing issues at Hidden Star Orchards
Autumn is apple season in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, an opportunity to taste apples at their peak and remember how good an apple can be. For many, the apple’s standing has been diminished by too many cardboard-like Red Delicious apples served as token pieces of fruit on airplanes or at other establishments. […]
Digest - Features: Specialty growers fail at lobbying, organic farming in China, ketchup chronicles
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: Farm Bill languishing, we have a beef with Boxer, more Aurora
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary: On leafy-greens laws, unfair crop insurance rates, and the coming poo-storm
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Features: Rats prefer organic, horse exposé, toothpaste hero
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Blogsnacks: Postcards from China, we bow down before farmers — and Rick Bayless
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Saving seeds for the future: Barton Organic Farm
Over the Labor Day weekend, I visited one of my favorite farmers at her Barton Organic Farm and talked to her about the ups and downs of organic farming while helping harvest seeds for next year.
Confession of an organic mega-dairy
“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. This is my first confession. I have knowingly sold milk from cows suffering from Absencia Grassosis.”
Digest - Commentary: Bee very worried, be Frank, be safe
A roundup of opinion pieces about SOLE food that we think will be of interest to Ethicurean readers.
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• The banana situation in Montreal
• Fighting climate change: Food miles vs. food choices
• Review: Carolyn Steel’s “Hungry City”
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- Rants:
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- • Downer and out: The U.S. beef industry
- • FDA approves food from clones
- • Why is Alice Waters involved with the Ameya Preserve?
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- • Growing into a farmer
- • What's in a Montana freezer?
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- • Non-total recall: The USDA's lack of authority
- • Shocking! USDA limits 'grass fed' label to meat that actually is
- • Getting to the heart of state meat inspection law
- • The blame frame and corn
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- • Bake on the wild side
- • Build a solar oven
- In the field:
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- • Eating local in Tucson
- • Winter on a New Hampshire farm
- • Local Burger in Kansas
- • Washington's Estrella Family Creamery
- • The Children's Studio School Garden in DC
- • Searching for raw milk in Vermont
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- • Finding common grounds: "Black Gold"
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