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 Stories About: ag policy AND agriculture AND California AND food AND health AND industrial ag
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Angry greens giants
Inspired by the spinach scare, new California rules could wilt small farmers |
Tom Philpott |
04 Oct 2007 |
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| This is a guest essay by Judith Redmond, co-owner of Northern California's legendary Full Belly Farm and president of the Community Alliance with Family Farmers. California is on the verge of adopting a policy that would regulate all of the state's salad greens-producing farms -- including ones that sell to a local market -- as if they were huge operations that ship cross-country. That's as predictable as it is absurd -- another case of the problems caused by industri ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, California, food, health, industrial ag (all these topics) |
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