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  The localization of agriculture 2

  Posted 17 hours, 15 minutes ago by Lester Brown

  In the United States, there has been a surge of interest in eating fresh local foods, corresponding with mounting concerns about the climate effects of consuming food from distant places and about the obesity and other health problems associated with junk food diets. This is reflected in the rise in urban gardening, school gardening, and farmers’ markets. Read More

• 'Tis the season (for Equal Exchange, part II)

  How much can we or should we limit our food imports? 5

  Posted 3 years ago by Roz Cummins

  Continued from last week ...

  

  Soon, it's hairnet time. We pass through the double doors that separate the break room from the plant itself. The building looks big enough to hold several jumbo jets, and is divided into a tasting area, a storage area that holds the green as-yet-unroasted beans that arrive at Equal Exchange in burlap… Read More

• Shocking developments on the farm

  Do diesel-based farmers dream of electric tractors? 10

  Posted 1 day, 17 hours ago by Tom Laskawy

  Tom Laskawy muses on the potential for electric tractors in the coming age of Peak Oil. Read More

• Organic farming has a major part to play in a low-carbon world

  Soil carbon—a blind spot in the debate on carbon 5

  Posted 1 day, 22 hours ago by Emma Hockridge

  COP15 looks like it may well be a cop out. The world was disappointed when it became clear Barack Obama would not get climate protection legislation through the U.S. Senate, endangering any meaningful global agreement. But a much earlier cop out came when agriculture failed to make it onto the agenda at all. Read More

• GoodGuide scanner makes healthy food shopping point and click 3

  Posted 3 days, 19 hours ago by Todd Woody

  Thanks to a new barcode scanner app, grocery shoppers can aim their iPhones at 63,000 different food products for details on the health, environmental, and social "performance" of the products and their makers. Read More

• Citizen Martha

  Martha Stewart blisters meat industry in Thanksgiving show 20

  Posted 6 days, 23 hours ago by Tom Philpott

  Martha Stewart arrays her considerable popular appeal against factory meat farming by featuring Food Inc. director Robert Kenner and anti-meat polemicist Jonathan Safran Foer on her Thanksgiving show. Read More

• Oh, SNAP!

  More NYC farmers markets accept food stamps and sales soar 2

  Posted 1 week ago by Tom Laskawy

  The NYT's Cityroom blog offers some hopeful news on getting more healthy food into low-income neighborhoods. Read More

• Infrastructurally unsound

  Grist Exclusive: Will Whole Foods’ new mobile slaughterhouses squeeze small farmers? 12

  Posted 1 week, 4 days 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

• Meat Wagon

  Uh-oh: Tamiflu-resistant swine flu rears up in the U.S., U.K. 1

  Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Tom Philpott

  Ever since evolution of the swine flu virus accelerated in 1998, virologists and veterinary-science have warned that factory hog farms create the ideal conditions for generating novel viruses. Read More

• Don't eat the hype

  Ecological farms: the only real way to feed an increasingly hungry world 11

  Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Debbie Barker

  There are those who would like us to believe that industrialized farming is the only way to feed the earth's growing population. It's simply not true. Read More

• Plate Tectonics

  No to Obama’s agrichemical industry man, yes to Bed-Stuy Farm 4

  Posted 1 week, 5 days ago by Tom Philpott

  This post marks the launch of "Plate Tectonics," a new feature that highlights ways that citizen action can move the food system in more sustainable directions. First task: jamming the revolving door between the agrichemical industry and the Obama administration. Read More

• thanks for nothing

  Global boiling declares war on Thanksgiving 5

  Posted 1 week, 5 days 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

• A tasting of four meatless “turkeys” for the holiday table 34

  Posted 1 week, 5 days ago by Lou Bendrick

• Gourmet’s conscience, Gopnik on cookbooks, and other tasty morsels 5

  Posted 1 week, 6 days ago by Tom Philpott

• So long and thanks for all the fish 47

  Posted 2 weeks ago by Tom Laskawy

• Winemakers face climate change with dread 3

  Posted 2 weeks ago by Agence France-Presse

• A parable on the National School Lunch Program 5

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Ann Cooper, Kate Adamick

• Why the USDA has no business overseeing conditions on factory farms, and more 17

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Tom Philpott

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

  Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago by Makenna Goodman

• Lester Brown and I, diavlogging 5

  Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago by David Roberts

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

  Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago by Tom Laskawy

• Time for the mainstream media to face the factory farm-swine flu link 23

  Posted 3 weeks ago by Tom Philpott

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