by Tom Philpott
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Citizen Martha
Martha Stewart serves up blistering critique of meat industry in Thanksgiving show 0
Posted 9 hours, 26 minutes ago 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 -
Maverick harms
For McCain, it’s really all about the fake snow 0
Posted 10 hours, 22 minutes ago Once a fighter on behalf of climate legislation, McCain has recently been mumbling Palinesque denialist platitudes. What gets his famous temper boiling these days? Two words: fake snow. As in, not enough of it. Read More -
Land grab
Will Africa’s farmland become a ‘resource curse’? 6
Posted 1 day, 2 hours ago The New York Times Magazine recently ran a great piece about rich nations buying up farmland in Africa. Tom Philpott gives his take. Read More -
Meat Wagon
Uh-oh: Tamiflu-resistant swine flu rears up in the U.S., U.K. 1
Posted 5 days, 1 hour ago 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 -
Plate Tectonics
No to Obama’s agrichemical industry man, yes to Bed-Stuy Farm 2
Posted 5 days, 21 hours ago 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 -
Choice nuggets
Gourmet’s conscience, Gopnik on cookbooks, and other tasty morsels 3
Posted 6 days, 21 hours ago Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web. Read More -
Meat wagon
Why the USDA has no business overseeing conditions on factory farms, and more 16
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago 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 -
Denialism and H1N1
Time for the mainstream media to face the factory farm-swine flu link 23
Posted 2 weeks ago The famed novelist Jonathan Safran Foer has been speaking bluntly about swine flu and CAFOs. Will the mainstream media now follow suit? Read More -
Slow food, fast trains
Random Monday thoughts inspired by a throwaway line from Mark Bittman 5
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago Perhaps feeling punchy because it's Monday, Tom Philpott jots down some random thoughts after reading an interview with home-cooking authority Mark Bittman. Read More -
Reckless behavior
For swine flu, forget origins and start thinking about practices 6
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago Amid a trickle of news and science about swine flu over the past week, I've been rethinking my position on the novel H1N1 virus that has now infected millions of Americans. Read More
