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• Infrastructurally unsound

  Will Whole Foods’ new mobile slaughterhouses squeeze small farmers? 3

  Posted 1 day ago by Tom Laskawy

  For years, small-scale poultry farmers have had trouble processing their birds for market. Grist has learned that Whole Foods is looking to solve just that problem. But will the retail giant's effort squeeze the very farmers it's designed to help? Read More

• thanks for nothing

  Global boiling declares war on Thanksgiving 3

  Posted 2 days, 1 hour ago by Brad Johnson

  Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, strengthened by global warming, caused $1.6 billion in agriculture damage in Louisiana alone. Now it appears that a Thanksgiving mainstay -- pumpkin pie -- is next on the global boiling hit list. Read More

• Are you faux real?

  A tasting of four meatless “turkeys” for the holiday table 14

  Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago by Lou Bendrick

  There are ways to celebrate Thanksgiving that don't involve turkey carnage. Lou Bendrick and her motley band of tasters deliver the goods on four meatless "birds." Read More

• Choice nuggets

  Gourmet’s conscience, Gopnik on cookbooks, and other tasty morsels 3

  Posted 2 days, 20 hours ago by Tom Philpott

  Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web. Read More

• Tuna Blues

  So long and thanks for all the fish 46

  Posted 4 days ago by Tom Laskawy

  There was some hope recently that the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, the organization charged with managing the Atlantic tuna fishery, would listen to its own scientists and ban commercial Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing so that the species might survive. Nope. Read More

• You might need a drink after you read this

  Winemakers face climate change with dread 3

  Posted 4 days, 4 hours ago by Agence France-Presse

  With the Copenhagen climate change summit looming, the world of wine convened on Spain's Rioja region for a conference in which global warming emerged as the industry's top concern. Read More

• Big fish, little fish

  A parable on the National School Lunch Program 3

  Posted 4 days, 20 hours ago by Ann Cooper, Kate Adamick

  The National School Lunch program, with all of its intricacies, can seem extremely complicated. But take a step back and look at it with clear eyes, and it's really pretty simple. Read More

• Meat wagon

  Why the USDA has no business overseeing conditions on factory farms, and more 15

  Posted 5 days, 7 hours ago by Tom Philpott

  Why isn't the federal government seriously investigating the possible CAFO-swine flu link? I've posed that question several times recently, most recently here. Now let me venture an answer. Read More

• A Farmer Speaks

  The new wave of urban farming (and fresh food from small spaces!) 1

  Posted 1 week, 2 days ago by Makenna Goodman

  In Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting, author R. J. Ruppenthal makes sense of this seemingly counter-intuitive idea -- that farming has to be done outside, with a red barn and rolling fields of wheat. Because, it doesn't! It is possible to grow your own food indoors, in cramped spaces, and without access to land. Read More

• Is this thing on?

  Lester Brown and I, diavlogging 4

  Posted 1 week, 2 days ago by David Roberts

  I recently recorded my first BloggingHeads TV ... episode? diavlog? not sure what they're called ... with Lester Brown, focused on the latest edition of his book: Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. My main takeaway from the experience is that I need a much better microphone on my laptop. The sound is pretty awful on my end. Also I'm long overdue for some beard maintenance. And media training. There's some chit-chat and technical glitches toward the beginning, but we get rolling about 5… Read More

• survey says!

  Feed the world sustainably by 2050? Yes, we can! 5

  Posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Tom Laskawy

  Adding a bit more data to food system reformers' arguments, a new study led by Germany's prestigious Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research takes on the question of whether we can "feed the world" while preserving the planet come 2050. Read More

• Denialism and H1N1

  Time for the mainstream media to face the factory farm-swine flu link 21

  Posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Tom Philpott

  The famed novelist Jonathan Safran Foer has been speaking bluntly about swine flu and CAFOs. Will the mainstream media now follow suit? Read More

• How the 40 year drop in the minimum wage helped cause obesity 3

  Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Tom Laskawy

• The Copenhagen Conference on food security 7

  Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Lester Brown

• Random Monday thoughts inspired by a throwaway line from Mark Bittman 4

  Posted 1 week, 5 days ago by Tom Philpott

• While scientists fight over BPA studies, Congress could just act 1

  Posted 1 week, 5 days ago by Tom Laskawy

• Climate Citizen: Michael Pollan on agriculture and health care 3

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago

• For swine flu, forget origins and start thinking about practices 6

  Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago by Tom Philpott

• Soda lobby gets its game on 4

  Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago by Tom Laskawy

• Consumer Reports finds BPA traces in common canned foods 14

  Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago by Tom Philpott

• New allies in fight against Obama’s pesticide lobbyist nominee 1

  Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Tom Laskawy

• I drink raw milk (sold illegally on the underground market) 49

  Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Joel Salatin

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