Today, I just can’t not write about pesticides! Sometimes the world screams at you about something specific. Right now, it is our tendency as a species to poison the very stuff that keeps us alive, the thin layer of nutrients…
Read more »African Food Basket Founder Anan Lololi. Photo by R. Jeanette Martin This is a great story from Now Toronto with audio clips of youth participants at the bottom of the column. “For 300 years we were on plantations, so there…
Read more »Does your mouth water when you look at the scene on the left? “Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler” (below) provides much food for thought (gristle for the noggin?). Seems we clearly need to take another look at meat. Click on the charts…
Read more »For me and people around the world, the Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser became a hero when he stood up to Monsanto. After the company’s genetically engineered (GE) seeds blew onto Schmeiser’s canola farm and contaminated his fields, the multinational sued…
Read more »Michael Pollan was here last week in Louisville promoting his new book, “In Defense of Food” to a sell-out audience in the Kentucky Center. Food is hot! You can catch much of what he covered in this interview on CBC…
Read more »Most of us are in blissful denial about the genetically altered “foodstuffs” we put into our mouths in the United States, but the absurdity of the situation is too much for me to contain myself. NOTE: If you are enjoying…
Read more »Mark Winne is a colleague who I’ve gotten to know through the Community Food Security Coalition activities. His messages about the injustices inherent in our food system are timely and important for those of us hoping and working for a…
Read more »Well, it might take 45 minutes the first time. But Fritz used the recipe from Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable Miracle book and it came out fine. I keep saying I’m going to make it over this Christmas break, but reading,…
Read more »Hillary and big meat? We’ll get to that in a minute. John Edwards, for his part, has opposed factory farming in North Carolina, the state with the highest number of hog factory farms in the country. In Iowa last week,…
Read more »Special interests win the day Farm Bill reforms inadequate; White House again threatens to veto Dan Morgan of the Washington Post gives the low-down on the Farm Bill approved by the Senate last week. “Ending a six-week impasse, the Senate…
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