Here’s yet another reason to support your small, local farm: large farms have a serious problem with manure. They stink, literally. They also stink for the environment, and the people living near them.
Today’s Washington Post had a great article explaining the many issues with disposing of animal waste from factory farms. If you don’t know [...]
A few weeks ago, I reflected on an article about the treatment of workers on organic farms. I was skeptical that small/local/organic farms would treat their workers worse than a large, industrial farm would.
This recent article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian suggests that I was wrong – the average organic farm treats its workers [...]
I’m back! Did you miss me? …Did you know I was gone? It’s been a crazy few weeks with not much time for me to blog, but life has calmed down now, and I’m trying to get back into the swing of things. You can expect a whole slew of posts around Thanksgiving.
A friend recently [...]
If this blog has been quiet recently, it’s because I’ve been too active – first vacation, then life getting in the way. I’ve got a post coming about all the great food I ate on vacation. But for now, enjoy a thoroughly entertaining interview with Michael Pollan on the Colbert Report:
The Colbert Report
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It’s a happy day for local foodies: Michelle Obama is going to start a vegetable garden at the White House. The sustainable food community has been pushing for this since before Barack’s inauguration: symbolically, the garden stands for healthy eating, local food, and freshly prepared meals. It sounds like those meals will be pretty tasty, [...]
Wal-mart has been in the news a lot lately for, well, for a lot of things, but one of them is its efforts to provide more organic foods. If you, like me, wonder whether it’s possible for a mega-corporation like Wal-mart to really help the organic food movement and not corrupt it, check out Eating [...]
As a vegetarian, food politics geek, and concerned cook, I’ve been a little upset that neither of the major presidential candidates has talked about the problems with our food system. I’m not surprised; it’s not a topic that’s high on most Americans’ list of concerns, though I’d argue that it should be. We all eat [...]
There’s an impressive amount of greenwashing advertising going around these days – big companies trying to act environmentally conscious when their very business is wrecking the environment. The oil companies are among the worst culprits. I’ve been really amazed by how Chevron’s new “Human Energy” advertisements show so much awareness and caring, when they really [...]
Do you remember the E. coli outbreak two years ago that started with contaminated spinach? Fresh spinach was virtually unavailable for weeks until the crop was declared safe again. Now, FDA has announced their solution to avoiding future outbreaks: spinach and other greens will be irradiated before being sold to consumers. Food and Water Watch [...]
An interesting story in the New York Times blog talks about finding the most humane way to kill a lobster. To spare you the suspense, no one really knows, but there are a number of theories – if you’re a lobster-eater and you get creeped out at the thought of boiling them alive, it’s worth [...]
