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Forbidden fruits (and vegetables)
Why the USDA wants to stop local food |
Kurt Michael Friese |
03 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| This is one of those "in case you missed it" kind of posts. In yesterday's New York Times, Minnesota farmer Jack Hedin wrote an op-ed that shows very clearly how the federal deck is stacked against small, sustainable, local farms and in favor of Earl Butz's "get-big-or-get-out" mentality. The commodity farm program effectively forbids farmers who usually grow corn or the other four federally subsidized commodity crops (soybeans, rice, whe ... |
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| Topics: Big Ag, food, agriculture, politics, local food (all these topics) |
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Tortilla Spat
How Mexico's iconic flatbread went industrial and lost its flavor |
Tom Philpott |
13 Sep 2006 |
Victual Reality |
| In a spectacle similar to the one conjured up by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000, a Mexican judiciary panel handed the nation's presidency to Felipe Calderón last week. Even The New York Times, in its circumspect way, acknowledged that the new president-elect's narrow victory over leftist rival Andrés Manuel López Obrador involved seemingly illegal activity by Calderón's governmental and bi ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, local food, Mexico, politics, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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