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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 - Features: Wendell Berry Q&A, Farm Bill front-pager, more

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, July 11th, 2007.

A round-up of insightful and informative features & blog posts we think Ethicurean readers will enjoy.

Digest - Blogsnacks: Stirring the s***, farm’s bill of food, more

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, July 11th, 2007.

A round-up of insightful and informative features & blog posts we think Ethicurean readers will enjoy.

Stephen Colbert on Kellogg’s advertising, antifreeze toothpaste, and obesity drug

by Bonnie P. @ Friday, July 6th, 2007.

In a hilarious segment about the safety of pharmaceuticals DIS: dissolving intestine syndromeLet;s start with nutrition.

Digest - Features: All salmon not the same, Farm Bill makes NYT food section, Detroit grows back

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, July 5th, 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.

Digest: Mutant rice, not-so-raw almonds, new GM guide, Mackey goes blogwild

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, June 27th, 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.

Guest post: Michael Shuman defends the “buy local” premise

by Bonnie P. @ Monday, June 25th, 2007.

Is it better for the planet to buy local produced food and goods, or to buy whatever used the least energy to produce it — so that apples hand picked in China but shipped across the ocean become somehow less polluting than those grown in Washington State and trucked to Portland, Oregon. Michael Shuman, author of “The Small-Mart Revolution,” rebuts a recent article to this effect.

Digest: Superbug plaguing European farm animals, sturgeon threatened, Farm Bill solution

by Ethicurean @ Monday, June 25th, 2007.

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

Becasse chef Justin North sounds wake-up call for Australians

by Bonnie P. @ Friday, June 22nd, 2007.

It’s been raining for the last couple of weeks along the East Coast of Australia, but it isn’t all good news. New South Wales is enduring land-churning floods. Dams that supply Sydney are at a three-year high of 49.6% capacity, which New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma estimates will add seven and a half months to the supply of drinking water. Which doesn’t mean that we have more water to grow food. The headline on an Australian Associated Press report yesterday was “Murray-Darling irrigators get grim news.”

A slow apology, of sorts

by Bonnie P. @ Saturday, May 19th, 2007.

Tana at I (Heart) Small Farms has the latest in the face-off between Slow Food leader Carlo Petrini and Ferry Plaza farmers who felt insulted by his description of the market, its clientele, and their prices.

A recipe for change: Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini speaks in San Francisco

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Monday, May 14th, 2007.

On May 10 Dairy Queen and I went to a lecture by Slow Food International founder Carlo Petrini, who’s on the road to promote the English-language release of his book “Slow Food Nation.” The book, which we have not yet read, is about the future of food, and what we must do to prevent […]

Framing guru George Lakoff on “Farm Bill”

by Marc R. aka Mental Masala @ Wednesday, May 9th, 2007.

While waiting for the Michael Pollan–moderated Farm Bill Teach-In to begin, I noticed George Lakoff near the front of the auditorium. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Lakoff — whose day job is a linguistics professor at UC Berkeley — became somewhat of a “rock star” in the political community for his work on “framing” […]

Digest: Non-U.S. organic growers catch a break, Chinese catfish banned, Monsanto spanked, pro-food Farm Bill proposal

by Ethicurean @ Friday, May 4th, 2007.

Digest: Non-U.S. organic growers catch a break, Chinese catfish banned, Monsanto spanked, pro-food Farm Bill proposal

Digest may hiccup this week

by Ethicurean @ Monday, April 23rd, 2007.

The Ethicurean bloggers are all quite busy right now, what with having babies and surgery and writing novels and working for the Man. Dairy Queen, who usually coordinates the group’s daily news Digest, will be at the 2007 Food and Society Conference all this week in Traverse City, Michigan, and is determined to make the […]

Digest: Pollan issues Farm Bill manifesto, U.S. lags in organic, birds sick, food aid scrutinized

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, April 22nd, 2007.

Food Bill of Rights and Wrongs: Michael Pollan attempts to reframe the Farm Bill — that “resolutely unglamorous and head-hurtingly complicated piece of legislation” — as a chance to reform the food system so that it actually benefits the interests of eaters. In his usual clear-eyed, deceptively simple style, he explains in detail how the […]

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