December 2011
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7 Foods Food Safety Experts Won't Eat →
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Finding the Eco-Queer Movement: Challenging...
lazyhawk:
Finding the Eco-Queer Movement: Challenging Heteronormative Space through Re-imaginings of Nature and Food By Joshua Sbicca
/ to read later.
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“On this question [government obesity policy], the evidence is utterly clear....”
– The Lancet via Marion Nestle (here)
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Grocers Take on Obesity One Label at a Time →
nutriblog:
“The owner of independent market Metro Foodland awards points and $10-off vouchers to shoppers who buy items on its healthy rewards list, which includes pineapple and asparagus.” I love this idea!!
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States can't find workers for harvest
Neither Washington state nor Alabama can find farmworkers.
Officials believe recent crackdowns on illegal immigration are scaring away the immigrants who would normally provide farm labor.
Some legislators are pushing for immigration reform, but are having little luck now at a time when most legislators are only concerned with budget issues.
A short term solution has been to hire inmates, but...
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Apply for the CDC Summer Program in Environmental... →
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Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe To Eat? →
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New research reveals obesity in children may be... →
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Ocean Spray issues voluntary Craisins recall →
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Monsanto (Still) Denies Superinsect Problem,... →
nutriblog:
I guess we’ll just have to let the rootworms take care of what the government can’t. Keep chomping, little guys.
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“Also in deference to David, there was no mention of margarine, even though all...”
– Importing Italian Cuisine - NYTimes.com
The labored birth of food appreciation that degenerated into today’s despicable food snobbery. On editing Elizabeth David’s Italian Cooking for an American audience of the 1950s. A must read if you think you’re a food snob or a word snob.
(via...
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Customer: How is the chicken salad?
Me: I don't really know, I don't eat meat.
Customer: chicken isn't meat.
Me: .....
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“Get organized. Eat less. Eat better. Move more. Get political.”
– Marion Nestle & Malden Nesheim (via connieinpdx)
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Notions & Notations of a Novice Cook: Making Melon... →
peegaw:
I can already see you wrinkling your nose and raising one eyebrow (or two) in disgust, because that would be my initial reaction too. It all started a few years back when The Brown Boy told me that his mom usually puts milk into juices - apple and mango, for example. He also told me…
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Are small farms in India inefficient? →
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URGENT ACTION: Protest Monsanto CFO in Times... →
nutriblog:
The Monsanto CFO will be speaking TOMORROW at the Bank of America Meryll Lynch 2011 Industrials Conference at The Crowne Plaza Times Square. This is an URGENT CALL TO DIRECT ACTION. Please FORWARD and attend if you can. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PROTEST MONSANTO CFO IN TIMES SQUARE New York — 12/6/2011 Occupy Big Food is organizing a protest this Wednesday when Monsanto CFO Pierre...
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Chik-Fil-A vs. Kale, this time from the NYT →
nutriblog:
remember, you saw it on nutriblog first ;-)
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“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a finite planet is either mad, or an...”
– David Attenborough (via newanddifferentsun)
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My Life as a Feminista: It is a privilege to be... →
mylifeasafeminista:
It is a privilege to be able to eat any of these types of food:
Vegan
Organic
Fair trade
Local
GMO-Free
Bought at a restaurant
Prepared from scratch
Home grown
Having transportation to/from a grocery store that sells these types of things, money to purchase these ingredients, the…
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“Nutritionism is a little like the institution of the American front Lawn
an...”
– Rebecca Ebner via IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: Michael Pollan (via crownjule)
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San Fransisco vs. McDonalds: The Toy Debate →
Not that I would defend using toys to bribe children to eat fast food, but I am impressed with the level of creativity this man employed in order to skirt this new law.
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My Life as a Feminista: It frustrates me to no end... →
mylifeasafeminista:
It frustrates me to no end when [some] vegans talk about how they are vegan because they refuse to support the exploitation of animals in the dairy and meat industries.
Unless you’re growing all of your own food or participating in 100 percent fair trade, you are consuming products that have gone…
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McFarthest Spot in the Country: How hard it is to... →
nutriblog:
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Help local farmers and gardeners find your food... →
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New twitter account: @___food4thought →
November 2011
17 posts
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There's arsenic in your juice: arsenic levels in... →
Food that should not contain arsenic, but does:
1. Juice
2. Chicken
3. ??
Sidenote: I will never be able to accept the concept of “allowable limits.”
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Philippe Cousteau's Thanksgiving ethical dilemma
Cousteau writes:
Most turkeys eaten this Thanksgiving will be of a single breed, the Broad-breasted White. This industrially-bred turkey wouldn’t exist without our modern system of food production because the birds no longer have the ability to reproduce on their own. In fact their breasts are so large they can barely walk and often have been stuffed full of growth supplements, antibiotics...
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BPA spikes 1,200 percent after eating canned soup:... →
People who ate canned soup for five days straight saw their urinary levels of the chemical bisphenol A spike 1,200 percent compared to those who ate fresh soup, US researchers said on Tuesday.
The randomized study, described as “one of the first to quantifyBPA levels in humans after ingestion of canned foods,” was done byHarvard University researchers and appears in the Journal of the...
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Walmart’s promised green product rankings fall off... →
rantsandplants:
“To do the necessary product analysis, Walmart founded the Sustainability Consortium, a university-hosted group. It has since attracted 75 corporate members, including Monsanto and McDonald’s, each of which must contribute at least $100,000 to the effort. To run the consortium, Walmart chose two academic institutions with which it has close ties: the Applied Sustainability...
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“[T]here are ways to reclaim our sovereignty, to become more than just consumers,...”
– Raj Patel, on divesting toward food products that nurture the farmer, the environment and the consumer (via vanleeuwenicecream)
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Occupy Big Food: How the Food Movement is... →
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Walmart’s promised green product rankings fall off... →
rantsandplants:
“To do the necessary product analysis, Walmart founded the Sustainability Consortium, a university-hosted group. It has since attracted 75 corporate members, including Monsanto and McDonald’s, each of which must contribute at least $100,000 to the effort. To run the consortium, Walmart chose two academic institutions with which it has close ties: the Applied Sustainability...
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Stephen Colbert: Americans don't use plates! →
nutriblog:
Video of Stephen Colberts take on MyPlate. Hilarious.
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Thanksgiving goes gourmet with high-end turkeys →
Initially I scoffed at the notion of spending $150 for a turkey, but I do support buying local/free-range/organic as opposed to buying factory-farmed fowl.
Have you tried a “premium” turkey?
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you enjoy your loved ones as well as your food.
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WatchI would’ve written my own scathing critique of Congress’ decision to classify tomato sauce as a vegetable, but instead I’ll let Seth Myers’ and Kermit the Frog (???!!) do the work. Please enjoy this episode of REALLY!?!
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Neon Tummy: McDonald's Drops Egg Supplier After... →
neontummy:
Chalk one up for the chickens. After animal activist group Mercy for Animals released videos of grievous mistreatment at Sparboe Farms in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado, McDonald’s and Target dropped the egg supplier late last week, according to The Associated Press.
This…
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WHEREAS pepper spray is "essentially" a food...
I have returned to my food-blogging ways. I’d been slacking as a result of some personal stuff going on, but when the national food debate is this absurd, how can I not join in?
For more:
We Hear Pepper Spray Tastes ‘Delicious’
Know Your Meme: Pizza is a Vegetable