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Digest – News: WA pushes farm-to-table for schools, CA to preserve raw milk, VA to help farmers earn more income
Growing back to school: Proposed legislation would put Washington State at the forefront of efforts to get more farm-fresh, locally grown food into lunches at schools and at other institutions — but there are many, many hurdles to be overcome, not least of which is defining "local." (Seattle
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Go goat: Finding goat dairy products
Peek in our fridge and you'll find goat milk, goat butter, and a variety of goat cheeses -- my daughter is allergic to casein (one of milk's proteins) and I'm sensitive to lactose (its sugar). Goat milk, like cow milk, has both, but in a structure and an amount that makes it easier for our overly sensitive
Digest – Blogs: Blogfights breaking out all over the place
The Raw-Milk Defender vs. the E. Coli Avenger : Reporter-blogger David Gumpert comes out swinging, writing, "Gee, I’ll go to bed tonight feeling a lot more secure that food poisoning lawyer Bill Marler is out there protecting my loved ones and me." Mr. Bill calls him "pathetic and
Digest – News: Complaints about Clinton campaigner in Iowa
The other white heat: Small-farm advocates and small farmers are questioning Hillary Clinton's choice of Joy Philippi, past president of the National Pork Producers Council, to run her rural campaign. Philippi has hedged on whether she supports local control over CAFOs (Clinton's sop to rural Iowans,
Digest – Blogs: Lawyer eyes raw milk wars, reporter eyes pasteurized milk outbreak
Marler for the cause: We've been enjoying the blog of personal-injury lawyer Bill Marler, aka the E. Coli Avenger, right up until when he started talking about raw milk as if it were a weak
Digest – News: EU ponders Bt corn, California raw-milk battle, USDA shills for Monsanto
To Bt or not Bt: A look at what's at stake as the European Union comes under pressure from the U.S. and the WTO to open its markets to genetically modified, herbicide rsistant Bt corn. There, so far, the precautionary principle has applied, and politicians have listened to those who urge caution, noting
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Digest – News: Atrazine contamination widespread, testing hogs for MRSA, raw milk sickness in Kansas
Dr. Fox, how is our Patient Chicken doing?: Atrazine, the second most widely used weedkiller in the country — which happens to cause sexual mutations in frogs, among other delightful side effects — is showing up in some streams and rivers at levels high enough to potentially harm their ecosystems,
Chewin’ in Charleston
Noshette and I went down south to Charleston, South Carolina, to attend a wedding of an old childhood friend of hers and we did a little bit of Ethicureanating while we were there. (once the word Ethicurean gets an entry in the dictionary, we'll have to figure out how to conjugate it.) A quick bit of
Cheese Baby visits the Estrella Family Creamery
From our Seattle correspondent Jenni P.: Anthony Estrella calls my daughter the Cheese Baby, and since she’s been old enough to talk she’s called him the Cheese Man. We’ve been buying cheese from Anthony at Seattle farmers markets for the past couple of years. Every week we take home
