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Siding with the Bushies? Why a Bush veto of the farm bill is bad for the food movement (and the world)	Elanor Starmer	12 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, legislation, politics (all these topics)

China's coming land grab More hidden costs of our love affair with cheap imported goods	Tom Philpott	11 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, Brazil, China, economy, rainforests (all these topics)

Farm Team Timothy LaSalle of Rodale on the surprising climate benefits of organic farming	Anna Lappé	09 May 2008	Grist Feature

Topics: agriculture, climate, food, interview, organic food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Congress (almost) passes a farm bill; Bush vows to veto How should sustainable-food advocates respond to the latest farm bill proposal?	Tom Philpott	08 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: ag policy, organic food, food, agriculture, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Better homes and gardens The NYT on urban farming	Tom Philpott	08 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, food, local food, placemaking, sustainable ag, urban planning (all these topics)

Corny weather FT: Midwest rains threaten U.S. corn crop	Tom Philpott	07 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: ag policy, agriculture, climate, severe weather (all these topics)

Do Me a Fava On soil health	Umbra Fisk	07 May 2008	Ask Umbra

Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, green living (all these topics)

Bad News, Bees Honeybee hives in U.S. seeing continued decline, survey says		07 May 2008	News
Posted at 7:17 AM on 07 May 2008 Honeybee populations in the United States continued their decline last year, according to a survey of bee health by the Apiary Inspectors of America; U.S. commercial beekeepers saw the loss of 36 percent more hives than last year. "For two years in a row, we've sustained a substantial loss," said Dennis van Engelsdorp of AIA. "That's an astonishing number. Imagine if one o ...
Topics: agriculture, food, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Taking a pillow to a knife fight Traditional print media and complex issues	biodiversivist	06 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, Washington (all these topics)

Better Ungulate Than Never Indian camels celebrate high oil prices		06 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:22 AM on 06 May 2008 Rising oil prices have many Homo sapiens in a tizzy, but at least one species is celebrating high fuel costs: the camel. Finding it spendy to fuel their tractors, farmers in India are turning to ungulate power. "It's excellent for the camel population if the price of oil continues to go up because demand for camels will also go up," says Ilse Köhler-Rollefson of the League for Pastoral ...
Topics: agriculture, India, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

BusinessWeek drinks the ethanol-spiked Kool-Aid The newsweekly uncorks a whopper in defense of crop-based fuels	Tom Philpott	06 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: ag policy, agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy (all these topics)

More than money Other conservation tools at stake in the Farm Bill, too	Guest author	05 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, legislation (all these topics)

I read a letter to the editor, the other day, I opened, and read it, it said they was suckas	David Roberts	04 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy (all these topics)

Jolly gene giant A review of Claire Hope Cummings' Uncertain Peril	Guest author	02 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, books, GMOs (all these topics)

The mirror, not Malthus The rhetoric of population in the hunger crisis	Sharon Astyk	01 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, climate, environmental justice, food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

The Fertile Depressant Nitrogen fertilizer is in short supply		30 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 5:02 PM on 30 Apr 2008 Yet another phenomenon tightly tied to soaring food prices: the price and availability of fertilizer. Global consumption of cheap chemical fertilizer has leapt an estimated 31 percent from 1996 to 2008, boosting modern agriculture around the world. But now, fertilizer is pricey and in short supply, leaving farmers scrambling to sufficiently feed their crops. "Putting fertilizer on the ground on a ...
Topics: agriculture, food, news (all these topics)

Aw, Shucks Food prices are high, and so are Big Ag's profits		30 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 30 Apr 2008 Food prices hitting you hard in the pocketbook? Agriculture giant Archer Daniels Midland feels for you, it really does -- but gee, its profits jumped 42 percent this quarter, so it can't really empathize. ADM's grain-processing division is doing lively business keeping up with the bumper corn crop. And, they'll have you know, high food prices are due to high oil prices, not to the ethanol push. Backing ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, business, energy, food, industrial ag, news (all these topics)

You Animals! Independent report calls for major reforms to industrial animal farming		30 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 5:51 AM on 30 Apr 2008 Photo: FarmSanctuary.org Industrial animal farming in the United States needs to make many major reforms in order to protect public health and the environment, an independent two-and-a-half-year study by the Pew Charitable Trusts and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has concluded. The report criticized the widespread use of antibiotics to promote animal growth, sa ...
Topics: agriculture, food, news, scientific research, United States (all these topics)

Perry and Thrust U.S. should back off from biofuels to bring down food prices, says Texas guv		28 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:56 PM on 28 Apr 2008 Has the U.S. push for biofuels contributed to rising global food prices? Well, yes, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday: "There has been apparently some effect, unintended consequence from the alternative fuels effort." But, she hastened to add, "biofuels continue to be an extremely important piece of the alternative energy picture" and & ...
Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, biofuels, economy, energy, food, news, politics, state politics, Texas (all these topics)

Food crisis resolved! Let's raze more Amazon rainforest!	Tom Philpott	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, food, rainforests (all these topics)

Putting Down Roots Ousted L.A. gardeners continue to farm		28 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 28 Apr 2008 In June 2006, a land dispute led to the shutdown of the South Central Community Garden in Los Angeles. Weeks of protest and tree-sitting by celebrities and regular folk proved unfruitful, and the 14-acre garden, tended by 350 low-income families in the middle of one of L.A.'s poorest neighborhoods, was bulldozed. Nearly two years later, with legal wrangling over the land's ownership ongoing, the gardeners ...
Topics: agriculture, California, food, gardening, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Notable quotable(s) Food vs. fuel edition	Tom Philpott	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, food, quotables, agriculture (all these topics)

Raise hell, not corn Contact your legislators and take action on the sorry state of the industrial food system	Jim Goodman	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, industrial ag (all these topics)

The Moth-Ban Prophecies Bay Area escapes aerial spraying, for now		25 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:48 AM on 25 Apr 2008 A plan to spray Santa Cruz County with synthetic pheromones must be postponed until an environmental review is completed, a county judge ruled Thursday. The spraying, an attempt by agriculture officials to curb the invasion of the crop-gobbling light brown apple moth, was to begin in Santa Cruz County in June and expand to seven other Bay Area counties in August. But many of the 7 million resident ...
Topics: agriculture, California, health, news, toxics (all these topics)

Sticker shock! What's causing the sudden run-up in food prices?	Tom Philpott	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: ag subsidies, agriculture, biofuels, economy, energy, food (all these topics)

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