September 2011
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Watchurbanfoodproduction:
GROWING CITIES! (great video)
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“One widely-used pathway is to understand food security through the 4 A’s:...”
– What Does Food Security Really Mean? (via thewholeworldgrumbleswithyou)
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UN: organic can feed africa / chemical ag has... →
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Eat green and healthy-even when you're busy! →
This is awesome.
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The Informed Vegan: Woman Dies After Injecting... →
theinformedvegan:
A Chicago-area woman is dead after she injected beef fat into her face.
The 63-year old had a regular routine of boiling beef until the fat liquefied and could be injected into her face with a syringe as a sort of DIY collagen. After the injections, her face was reported to be…
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Are Americans concerned about U.S. food safety?
Considering the E. Coli outbreak in Europe and the Cargill recall of ground turkey in the U.S. you would think food safety ratings would be at an all time low. Yet an NPR poll found that fewer Americans are concerned with food safety this year than they were last year. This news comes on the heels of a legitimate reason why Americans should feel a bit safer about their food quality, which is...
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Agility in Agriculture: Why Farms Will Succeed and... →
Extreme weather has thrown off fruit and vegetable production schedules by a couple of weeks around the country this year. Anyone who’s a CSA member or an avid farmers’ market-goer knows it — farmshares are starting delivery a couple of weeks late in some regions and markets are still displaying spring greens in others. In the Pacific Northwest, there is much talk of...
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Vegetable seasonality chart →
Click on the name of a vegetable to see which farms grow it and what varieties are sold at the market. Please remember that harvest season is never exact. We have done our best to give a general idea of when certain crops can be found in the market, but every year is different, and different varieties have different harvest times!
Nice!
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I'm proud to say my little town began holding a...
It’s pretty nice, too, and it looks like it’s going to be successful.
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BUSTED: Top Vegan Nutrition Myths →
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The NOT Milk Campaign →
runeatblog:
Just a site that I found that may or may not blow your mind. The Not Milk Campaign is lead by the Dairy Education Board which is dedicated to finding evidentiary support that milk is NOT the perfect, or even a great dietary source for humans. This organization seems relentlessly dedicated to educating against proponents of milk, and what they believe to be one of the greatest myths...
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The Informed Vegan: This Sausage Contains 104%... →
theinformedvegan:
A man in Sweden became alarmed when he noticed that the sausage he was about to purchase contained 104 percent meat. Oddly enough, the company claims the figure is accurate.
The concerned customer told press, “Personally I can’t accept that anything contains over 100 percent. And this…
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NYT: China’s Interest in Farmland Makes Brazil... →
Even as Brazil, Argentina and other nations move to impose limits on farmland purchases by foreigners, the Chinese are seeking to more directly control production themselves, taking their nation’s fervor for agricultural self-sufficiency overseas.
“They are moving in,” said Carlo Lovatelli, president of the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries. “They are looking for land, ...
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Financial Costs to States of Obesity →
wtlossfoodblog:
Marion Nestle pointed out a Nature article on the costs of obesity, from the abstract: “Across states, annual medical expenditures would be between 6.7 and 10.7% lower in the absence of obesity. Between 22% (Virginia) and 55% (Rhode Island) of the state-level costs of obesity are financed by the public sector via Medicare and Medicaid.”
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WatchAnthony Bourdain argues that tackling the issue of obesity should be approached as a matter of patriotism.
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World-Renowned Chef Karl Wilder Tries Living on... →
stfuconservatives:
Still think people on food stamps have it too good? Chef Karl Wilder is trying to feed his family on the budget equivalent of what they would receive on food stamps. He’s been documenting his meals on his blog as part of an awareness campaign for the San Francisco Food Bank.
He just finished his two months on a food stamp budget, and he says, “I admit to being bored by it. I...
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Monsanto doesn't use GM foods in its own UK...
Here’s an excerpt from a 2000 interview in which Amy Goodman interviews the CEO of Monsanto for four minutes outside of a cocktail party.
AMY GOODMAN: Number one, the UK cafeteria of Monsanto has banned genetically modified food. What is your response to that? ROBERT SHAPIRO: Yeah. It wasn’t the UK cafeteria; it was the vendor that we used to supply the cafeteria. And in the UK, there...
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Tube Burgers: The World Of In Vitro Meat →
The more I read about this, the more I get freaked out.
Imagine picking up a nice juicy burger and taking a bite, only to find out that the meaty burger you’re biting into didn’t come from an animal — it was grown in a lab.
Sound far-fetched? The reality of test-tube burgers in supermarkets may be close to becoming a reality. Scientists at laboratories around the world are...
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A Pew Environment Group report tallied the various... →
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Friday Funny: So You've Decided to Drink More... →
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WatchPlaneat: When food is the problem, can food be the solution?
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“Petrovic: If we are what we eat, what do we become when we eat Twinkies?
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Steve Ettlinger, author of Twinkie, Deconstructed, in an interview with Alternet