Archive for the ‘food’ Category

Documentary Claims A Love of Meat is Killing Us (Video)

published May 16, 2011 and has No Comments

Image credit: Planeat From my musings on what a vegan world would actually look like , to PETA's infographic on what happens when everyone eats vegan , we've seen plenty of speculation about what our future would look like if we abandoned, or severely curtailed, our use of meat, dairy and other animal products. But there's no need to ...

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Student-Organized Farmers Markets in Schools (Video)

published April 21, 2011 and has No Comments

Image credit: Soil Association From Sacramento High School students creating their own CSA to an after-school program based on an urban farm , we've seen plenty of ways that the local food movement is integrating with educational opportunities for school-aged children. But this might be the first time we've seen a full farmers market in a school. organized by ...

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Corn Price Bubble Could Bring Troubles

published April 2, 2011 and has No Comments

Illustration depicting both male and female flowers of maize Image credit: Wikipedia Corn is such a cultural cornerstone in America. Lend an ear to John Fahey playing " Give Me Corn Bread When I'm Hungry ." Rememberr Thoreau buying sacks of cracked corn for his Walden Pond stay. Tortillas and Katchina Dolls, and marbled beef, and corn root borers ...

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How to Get More Veggies from Your Garden

published April 2, 2011 and has No Comments

Photo Credit: j-oh , Flickr Creative Commons. In the quest to grow more of our own food on our 1/4 acre city lot, we've spent a bit of time bemoaning the fact that we are quickly running out of space. The good news is that there are plenty of ways to make your limited garden space work harder for ...

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When Food Is High, Corn Gets Political & The Crazy Get Going

published March 28, 2011 and has No Comments

Those green states are where all the crazy food politics will be centered. Image credit: USDA In what may be one of my favorite news stories of the year, Green Fields: Expected acreage of corn isn't enough, survey shows , published in the Des Moines Register. , the wacky Wall Street farmers at Goldman Sachs, "report...that bad weather this ...

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Coming Intersection Of Global Trade Clashes, Food Cost Increases, And Climate Politics

published March 24, 2011 and has No Comments

Image credit: NOAA Today's seminal Lester Brown post about China's escalating grain consumption and coming conflicts over trade and food prices - see Can the United States Feed China? - brought to mind related, climate-driven events in the US. Back in February I wrote : "As we all can see by the latest Federal drought t... Read the full ...

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Easy Methods for Growing Potatoes

published March 11, 2011 and has No Comments

Photo Credit: krossbow , via Flickr Creative Commons Attribution License . From giant, starchy baking potatoes to small, waxy fingerlings; from pale white to deep purple, there are almost endless options available to you when you grow your own. The flavors and colors far exceed what's available in most grocery stores. And, with a little planning, even those of ...

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Pig Farm Manure Lagoons Ineffective in Controlling Pollution

published March 7, 2011 and has No Comments

John has written before about how manure lagoons may become a liability in a warming climate , but even now the practice of storing vast amounts of animal waste in anaerobic lagoons is causing major environmental concerns. Science Daily points to new research showing that manure storage lagoons in North and South Carolina have proliferated over the last 15 ...

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Why Vegans are Welcome to Call me a Murderer

published March 7, 2011 and has No Comments

Image credit: Martijn van Exel , used under Creative Commons license. I seem to be thinking a lot about the ethics of meat eating recently. From wondering why I don't feel bad for eating meat yet still apologize for it , to posting about The Moneyless Man's comparison between meat eating, genocide, eugenics and cannibalism , it's a ... ...

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87 Year Old Billionaire’s Die-Later Diet

published March 7, 2011 and has No Comments

Here is another diet plan, designed by 87 year old billionaire David Murdock. New York Times food writer Frank Bruni writes: He wants to reach 125, and sees no reason he can't, provided that he continues eating the way he has for the last quarter century: with a methodical, messianic correctness that he believes can, and will, ward off ...

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