The Health Of America Starts On The Farm
Mark Bittman makes the point in his column at the New York Times today, that the biggest killer of Americans isn’t guns but industrial agriculture. A point I have
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Category: farm policy muses
Subsidy Garden?
Going through my email this morning turned up the latest from farm policy. White House has laid out a graphic there that speaks loads about the disconnect between reality and
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Mark Bittman Points Out A Inconvenient Truth
Reading Mark Bittman’s blog this morning I saw this lead-in to a link I had to follow: Here’s the thing. A lot of stuff isn’t directly about food, but TB
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The Carnivore’s Dilemma by Nicolette Hahn Niman
To a rancher like me, who raises cattle, goats and turkeys the traditional way (on grass), the studies show only that the prevailing methods of producing meat — that is, crowding animals together in factory farms, storing their waste in giant lagoons and cutting down forests to grow crops to feed them — cause substantial greenhouse gases. It could be, in fact, that a conscientious meat eater may have a more environmentally friendly diet than your average vegetarian.
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The False Hope of Biofuels
I know we are all holding out great hopes for biofuels, but these nagging pieces keep showing up in the papers… The False Hope of Biofuels: “Biofuels such as ethanol
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Common Ground: The Shortest Food Chain
Here’s another article on the sustainable foods culture. The tie is to the book by Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Looks like another trip to the booksellers for me. Everthing I
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Support Your Local Farmer, Craftsperson, and Shopkeeper
It looks like if there is a common thread running through recent posts it is the idea of buying local. My concern was originally in the way of food. I
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‘Organic’ Loses Its Freshness
Small organic growers stubbornly plug away, but the “O” word now means something entirely different—used to lend credibility to “industrial organic” food produced on large, factory-style farms. Buy fresh, locally grown food produced by someone you know. Once the relationship between producer and consumer is re-established, both will benefit.
