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Straight-from-the-farm guerrilla dining in South Carolina

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, December 20th, 2007.

Cool little video about an underground restaurant event in Charleston, SC, put on by Curious Fork/Furious Cork — "a place where the hungry, curious and adventurous gather to share, inspire or get inspired." And what inspires these hipster Southern chefs is just-picked produce from farmers they know. (Video is not embeddable; click screenshot to […]

“Have you ever been to the farm?” Let Sesame Street take you

by Bonnie P. @ Saturday, November 17th, 2007.

Tomorrow’s New York Times Sunday Magazine has a story about the DVD release of “Sesame Street: Old School,” and its bizarre-sounding agrarian sequences on farms.Many of them can be found on YouTube.

Missoula, MT is for the birds — and against them, too

by Bonnie P. @ Wednesday, November 14th, 2007.

Meloukhia (along with my BoingBoing-reading husband) alerts us to a fantastic multimedia story at New West about how a proposal to legalize backyard chickens in Missoula, Montana, is dividing neighbors. It’s the battle of the Locavores/Ethicureans vs. Prissy NIMBYists:

In case you’re not familiar with it, New West is a damn fine online journalism site dedicated […]

Digest - Blogsnacks: Russ Parsons says “Pay more!”, farmer reality show

by Ethicurean @ Friday, September 7th, 2007.

A roundup of current features and featured blog posts of possible interest to Ethicurean readers.

“The Dying Fields: India’s Forgotten Farmers” on PBS

by Bonnie P. @ Tuesday, August 28th, 2007.

(The Dying Fields: India’s Forgotten Farmers - TV - Review - New York Times )ht on PBS about farmers in India caught in a debt nightmare, you may find yourself thinking at first of America’s mortgage mess.But by the end, don’t be surprised if your neurons, always eager to categorize the new and the incomprehensible, give an entirely different spin to the strange goings-on the program documents: These impoverished cotton farmers have traits in common with suicide bombers.No, they are not blowing up bystanders in the name of a god or a political cause…. And the government support system in this country is close to non-existent - the central cause of the enormous distress that so many of them have had here in central India in the cotton farming belt.It is interesting to compare the transformation of the Indian economy and where the rural economy fits in, with what happened in the United States during the 1980s where we saw massive transformation of its rural farm economy.

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.

Dinnertime viewing

by Bonnie P. @ Wednesday, May 9th, 2007.

This cartoon by P.S. Mueller from the May 14, 2007, reminded me again of the BBC reality show “Kill It, Cook It, Eat It,” which premiered back in March.

“As natural as milk & cookies & hormones”

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, April 19th, 2007.

Stephen Colbert had a fab segment last night on “The Colbert Report” about rBGH, the synthetic hormone that makes dairy cows produce more milk. It’s hilarious, perhaps even more so because he never mentions the name Monsanto, which manufactures the most widely used form of rBGH; Monsanto is currently protesting the use of “rBGH-free” on […]

Digest: Riggle clones around, ag-tech check, organic pet food

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, March 29th, 2007.

“Perfect steak all over again”: Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle hosted a segment on cloned meat a few nights ago, complete with bizarre-o appearances by the CEO of cloning leader ViaGen and Adam Eidinger from “Big Eco,” aka the Organic Consumers Association. We love the awesome animation of the “natural” process of bovine duplication. Warning: […]

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