archive for the 'Organic vs. industrial' Category

Digest - News: Farm Bill languishing, we have a beef with Boxer, more Aurora

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007.

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

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007.

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

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007.

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

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, September 27th, 2007.

Recent blog posts we like.

Saving seeds for the future: Barton Organic Farm

by Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen @ Wednesday, September 26th, 2007.

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

by Amanda Rose @ Tuesday, September 25th, 2007.

“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

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, September 11th, 2007.

A roundup of opinion pieces about SOLE food that we think will be of interest to Ethicurean readers.

Don’t sterilize our nuts: Take action on almonds

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Tuesday, August 28th, 2007.

It’s time for action on almonds.
The above photo shows almonds lying on the ground shortly after being shaken from a tree. The nuts are covered by a hull, which has started to peel back in the above specimens, and a shell. I took the photo during a CUESA-organized tour of Lagier Ranches in […]

Guest post: Talking to Growing for Market’s Lynn Byczynski about organic’s evolution

by Janet @ Sunday, August 26th, 2007.

Bob Scowcroft, director of the Organic Farming Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, Calif., says that Growing for Market “has become one of our favorite publications here at the office, and was identified as such by many of the respondents of our National Organic Farmers’ Survey.”… Nowadays, their Wild Onion Farm produces herbs and vegetables only for themselves, while the flowers are sold commercially to florists and the Community Mercantile, Lawrence’s natural foods grocery…. Certification grows Lynn notes that the USDA regulations have meant that getting certified is now more expensive and paperwork-intensive, a drawback to small growers…. And, despite a bit of an exodus from certification, particularly among CSA growers (including Wild Onion Farm) whose customers know and trust them, the number of certified farms keeps increasing…. An added benefit of the local-food movement is that small-scale market gardening (also known as truck farming), whether organic or not, offers an entrée into the industry for people who harbor dreams of farming.

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 […]

Bees and a berry farm

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Saturday, August 11th, 2007.

Helping native bees
Like many other science-related programs, KQED TV’s Quest has done a segment on bees this year. Quest’s segment focuses on the work of two University of California researchers, one who is trying improve honeybee genetics through selective breeding and another who specializes in California’s native bees. You can watch the 10-minute segment […]

Digest - News and Commentary: not marketing to kids, Farm Bill, Mackey mea culpa

by Ethicurean @ Tuesday, July 17th, 2007.

Tricks are for marketers: Eleven big food and beverage companies will no longer advertise certain foods to kids under the age of 12 (almost one billion dollars are spent each year advertising to children under 12). But look for the loopholes. A big one: ads will be allowed on "family" television programs like American […]

You can take the Ethicurean out of Berkeley…

by Bonnie P. @ Monday, July 16th, 2007.

…but that doesn’t mean she won’t still be fixated on the same things.

Digest - News & Commentary: Organic farming beats conventional, Mackey masquerade, more

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, July 11th, 2007.

A round-up of the most important news & commentary regarding SOLE- and anti-SOLE food issues, farming, policy, etc. that we think Ethicurean readers will want to know about.

Digest - News & Commentary: Stress + fast food = obesity; EU to plant GMOs

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, July 1st, 2007.

The Digest trawls the Web for tasty news, features, op-eds and blog posts — from Farm Bill updates to backyard chickens, transgenic foods, E. coli recalls, and sustainable fish. No extra charge for the puns.

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