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Articles for Sustainable Eating
**Article of the Week**
The Cornucopia's latest newsletter talking about raw milk, the S5.10 legistlation and rulings on raw almonds. Read it here.
Grass is Green...and we like it that way by Kaiulani Kimbrell
A short video on the first case of GMO seeds brought to court.
Here's the latest update from the Center for Food Safety who brought the case to court.
Blockade of Monsanto in the Netherlands By GM Watch
'Roundup Monsanto' wants Monsanto to back out of the seed market, and demands an end to patents on seeds and living organisms.
Heavy use of the weedkiller Roundup has led to the rapid growth of herbicide-resistant weeds that could lead to higher food prices and more pollution.
Field Report: Plow Shares By CHRISTINE MUHLKE
The Crop Mob is a monthly word-of-mouth (and -Web) event in which landless farmers and the agricurious descend on a farm for an afternoon.
Everything you need to know about fast food By onlineschools.org
A great graphic with lots of facts about fast food: the money the companies make, the ingredients, and so much more!
Barriers to Eating Sustainably, Real and Imagined By Sharon Astyk
A fabulous read about how local foods can be done on a tight budget. It also discusses the very real challenges as well.
Farmer Friendly Zone: Better School Food = More Local Farms By Melisa Waldron Lehner
Last week, U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, unveiled the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which provides $4.5 billion in new child nutrition program funding over ten years. How could this affect our farms and our kids, for the better?
Judge Allows GMO Sugar Beet Harvest for the First Year Gazette-Times reporter Bennett Hall contributed to this report.
Not good news for this year . . . A federal judge has said farmers can harvest their genetically engineered sugar beets this year, ruling the economic impact too great and that environmental groups waited too long to request that the crop be yanked from the ground and otherwise barred from the market.
Supreme Court to Hear First Genetically Engineered Crop Case by The Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a 2006 lawsuit on behalf of a coalition of non-profits and farmers who wished to retain the choice to plant non-GE alfalfa. CFS was victorious in this case – in addition CFS has won two appeals by Monsanto in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: in 2008 and again in 2009. Now, upon Monsanto’s insistence, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case.
'Let's Move' and work on child obseity problem by Robin Givhan
First lady Michelle Obama rolled out her national initiative to combat childhood obesity with a show of force that included medical, business and government leaders, grassroots activists, celebrity public service announcements, cartoon characters as nutrition experts, as well as those most directly affected -- the kids themselves.
Addressing All the Components of Local Food by Steph Larsen
"As anyone who has ever raised grain or livestock can tell you, the farmer is not the only person in the chain of players from her farm to your fork. In addition to producers, your food chain includes processors, distributors or transporters, and retailers."
A Few Tips for the 2006 Eat Local Challenge by Jamie S.
Although this article is a few years old it still comes with very relevant and interesting ideas.
Fair Trade Or Local: Is There Only One Choice?
When thinking about supporting a healthier food system, you might find it hard to buy all local items and wonder what to do in those cases.
The Carnivore's Dilemma By NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN
Singling out meat-eating as harmful to the environment is overly simplistic. Encouraging judicious choices for all types of food is a better approach.
Food Rules: A Completely Different Way To Fix The Health Care Crisis. By MICHAEL POLLAN.
And the Pursuit of Happiness: Back to the Land By MAIRA KALMAN
What does it say about us that we eat so much fast food and eat food so fast?
Fair Food Project. Check out these videos!
The Fair Food Project is a great graphic depection of why Idaho's Bounty is working to keep local foods local and give people the opportunitiy to know who their farm workers are.
With ‘Low-Power Happy Hour’ and a Worm Bin, an Idaho Pub Gets Creative By KATE GALBRAITH
The Bittercreek Alehouse in Boise, Idaho, is pioneering inexpensive ways to cut down on waste and electricity use.
More on the Menu than a Meal by GUY HAND
Farm to Fork dinners are served on the very farms where the evening’s food is grown. They’re a national phenomenon. But ultra-fresh fare isn’t all these events offer. In this episode of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand goes to dinner at Boise’s Peaceful Belly Farms and finds there’s more on the menu than a good meal.
Getting Real About the High Cost of Cheap Food by BRIAN WALSH
Can we count on increasing personal consciousness or does the good food economy have to go bankrupt along with our souls? This article with lots of hopeful words and a powerful ending, makes Idaho's Bounty extremely relevant.
National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement Could Harm Local, Family-scale and Organic Growers by THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE
Corporate Agribusiness Proposes Regulating Itself Instead of Stricter Governmental Food Safety Oversight
Big Food vs Big Insurance By MICHAEL POLLAN
The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care.
People Are Finally Talking About Food, and You Can Thank Wendell Berry for That by MICHAEL POLLAN
Wendell Berry's now-famous formulation, "eating is an agricultural act" -- is perhaps his signal contribution to the rethinking of food and farming under way today.
Farmacology By DALE KEIGER
Johns Hopkins researchers are investigating a troubling potential source of resistant pathogens: the American farm.
Proof: A Perfect Pear By STEPHEN MCCARTHY
The founder of a distillery in Oregon on how his life in local agriculture shaped his approach to making spirits.
And if you needed yet another reason to eat your fruits and veggies . . . check out this short article from Prevention.
Is a Food Revolution Now in Season? By ANDREW MARTIN
Advocates of organic and locally grown food have found a receptive ear in the White House, which has vowed to encourage a more nutritious and sustainable food supply.
For Farmers and Consumers Defending the Right to Buy and Protecting the Right to Sell Nutritious Food Directly from the Farm. By FARM TO CONSUMER LEGAL DEFENSE FUND.
Here are some answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 (HR 2749). Read and take action now!
The Pleasures of Eating. By WENDELL BERRY.
This essay by the esteemed poet and farmer Wendell Berry appeared almost 20 years ago in his collection titled What Are People For?, but his advice for the urban “consumer” remains astonishingly ripe.
Many Summer Internships Are Going Organic By KIM SEVERSON
A new wave of liberal arts students are heading to farms this summer, in search of both work and social change.
We Need Food and Farming Regulation NOW! BY WILL ALLEN. Will Allen, a leading organic farmer in the U.S. and a member of the Policy Advisory Board of the Organic Consumers Association has written an excellent overview of the major problems and hazards of our currently out-of-control system of industrial agriculture. The Dervaes, Urban Homesteaders with a Homegrown Revolution.
Check out their work, "Pioneering a journey towards self-sufficiency - one step a time".
Forging a Hot Link to the Farmer Who Grows the Food By BRAD STONE and MATT RICHTEL
A flour miller in Washington State turns to the Internet to revive once-strong ties between consumers and farmers.
Educate yourself on HR 875, the "Biotech Companies are Destroying Traditional Farming (Just Not in this Bill)" Act. Read a good summary with links to other resources from the Organic Consumers Association.
Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at White House By MARIAN BURROS
Michelle Obama is planning the first vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II
An Urban Farmer Is Rewarded for His Dream by BARBARA MINER
Here's a short video on Will Allen.
With a $500,000 “genius grant” awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Will Allen of Growing Power, in Milwaukee, hopes to take his farm off the grid.
More US Farmers Planting Non-GMO Soybeans This Year by THE ORGANIC AND NON-GMO REPORT
For the first time since 1996, acres of Roundup Ready genetically modified soybeans could drop as more farmers decide to plant non-GMO.
It's Organic, but Does That Mean It's Safer?By KIM SEVERSON and ANDREW MARTIN
Shoppers who think organic food is safer are often surprised to hear that it technically has nothing to do with food safety.
Make sure to check out the video that goes along with the article too!
Before Big Dinner, the First Lady Gives a Kitchen Tour by MARIAN BURROS
An NY Times article with a few quotes about local food from Michelle Obama.
The Hidden Dangers of Roundup by Dr. Gregory Damato, Ph.D., citizen journalist
A look into some of the research that is beginning to come out on the dangers of Monsanto's Roundup.
A 50-Year Farm Bill
We need a farm bill that addresses the problems of soil loss and degradation, toxic pollution, fossil-fuel dependency and the destruction of rural communities.
Obama's 'Secretary of Food'? by NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
When Barack Obama chooses his agriculture secretary, we need a bold reformer in a position renamed "secretary of food."
Sorting Through the Claims of the Boastful Egg By CATHERINE PRICE
It used to be, an egg was an egg, but now the incredible, edible egg is becoming unintelligible.
Can the Excuses By TARA MORGAN
Eating local in the winter can be easy with some preparation. Idaho's Bounty is mentioned!
The Food Issue: Farmer in Chief by MICHAEL POLLAN
What the next president can and should do to remake the way we grow and eat our food.
Uniting Around Food to Save an Ailing Town by MARIAN BURROS
Facing a Main Street dotted with vacant stores, residents of Hardwick, VT, are betting on farming to make it the town that was saved by food.
Change We Can Stomach By DAN BARBER
Farming has the potential to go through the greatest upheaval since the Green Revolution, bringing harvests that are more healthful, sustainable and flavorful.
Love for the Local By MELISSA DAVLIN
Local-foods trend brings southern Idaho back to its roots.
Is local food really miles better? By ROBERTA KWOK
Many of us now count "food miles." But are local fruits and veggies really more carbon-friendly than produce at the supermarket?
The Worst Way of Farming Editorial
As new reports make it clear, the efficiency of industrial animal production is an illusion, made possible by prisonlike confinement systems.
The Food Chain: Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Never has food moved around the world at the speed or in the amounts it has over the last few years. Now, many say it is time to make shippers and shoppers pay for the resulting pollution.
Supermarket Chains Narrow Their Sights By MARIAN BURROS
Supermarkets are beginning to compete with farm stands and farmers’ markets for a wider variety of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Grains Gone Wild By PAUL KRUGMAN
How did the food crisis happen? The answer is a combination of long-term trends, bad luck — and bad policy.
Drawing up a Map for Food Sustainability by Corire Brown
Can 'sustainable' defined hundreds of different ways?
Organic farming gaining grounds in the area By Aldrich M. Tan
Some farmers are foregoing organic certification, even though they follow organic farming methods.
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