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A new vision of 'credit crunch' While global markets crater, a Vermont town unites around food	Tom Philpott	09 Oct 2008	Gristmill
The effort to revive global credit markets has devolved into farce. Every day, U.S. authorities announce some earth-shaking new measure -- a $700 billion bailout, the Fed's extraordinary move into the commercial-paper business, a coordinated global set of rate cuts -- and every day, investors continue acting as tweaky as meth heads when the dope has run out. Why should this matter to anyone who doesn't have a pile invested in the stock market? Because we're in what's ...
Topics: agriculture, economy, food, local food, Vermont, Wall Street (all these topics)

Ethanol waste: Good for Rover? The pet-food industry takes a serious look at distillers grains	Tom Philpott	06 Oct 2008	Gristmill
Should the mush left over after the ethanol process -- known as distillers grains -- be fed to farm animals? There's been little real debate around that question, even though a) heavy use of distillers grains as cow feed has been linked to deadly E. Coli 0157H7 outbreaks; and b), the mush has been shown to contain all manner of residues from the ethanol process, including industrial chemicals and antibiotics. While questions surrounding distillers grains as animal f ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, ethanol, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

Politics and the Dinner Table Weighing Obama's and McCain's stances on food and farm policy	Tom Philpott	03 Oct 2008	Victual Reality
Will the next president be tough enough to defy the wishes of agribusiness? Apologies to Grant Wood Last month at Slow Food Nation, Michael Pollan made an interesting point about food policy and presidential politics. Food issues won't likely play much of a role during the campaign's stretch run, Pollan said, but the winning candidate will almost certainly be forced to confront ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Barack Obama, food, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Dispatches From the Fields: My ride in a combine How commodity grain farmers have sown the seeds of their demise	Ariane Lotti	03 Oct 2008	Gristmill
In 'Dispatches From the Fields,' Ariane Lotti and Stephanie Ogburn, who are working on small farms in Iowa and Colorado this season, share their thoughts on producing real food in the midst of America's agro-industrial landscape. ----- A field of dried soybeans ready to be combined. Although 'that time of year' in corn and soybean country is a few weeks late, it has finally arrived. Whether starting up their new $300,000 capital investment for the first ti ...
Topics: ag subsidies, agriculture, economy, food, industrial ag, Iowa (all these topics)

Trick or treat? As Halloween nears, beware of the 'fat-free' candy corn	Meredith Niles	02 Oct 2008	Gristmill
It's the beginning of October and as the cooler temperatures and colorful leaves start to make an appearance, every retailer in America is switching storefronts to include pumpkins and of course, Halloween candy. The orange and black packages are cropping up in drugstores and supermarkets nationwide, and the glycemic high that lasts from Halloween through Easter has certainly begun. Since the lipid-phobia of the late 80s, high-sugar candies like gummy bears, gum drops ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living, health, holiday (all these topics)

Sour milk The Environment Report naively pushes Monsanto-related study praising rBGH	Tom Philpott	01 Oct 2008	Gristmill
I don't know much about Environment Report, a non-profit producer of radio reports about, uh, the environment. But I can't say I'm impressed by its recent piece on recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), the genetically modified "feed enhancer" for dairy cows that Monsanto recently sold to Eli Lilly. In it (transcript here), reporter Shawn Allee sets up a contrast between a Chicago health-food store owner and a Cornell scientist. The health food guy cites ...
Topics: livestock, Big Ag, scientific research, food, agriculture, mainstream media (all these topics)

Erring on the side of 'heirloom' Greenwashing our vegetable modifiers	Laura Hess	01 Oct 2008	Gristmill
A few weeks ago, I was having dinner at a renowned restaurant in San Francisco, when I noticed something a bit troubling on the menu. According to the description, the 'Heirloom Tomato Salad' was made with a mix of Sweet 100 and Sungold tomatoes -- both of which are hybrid varieties. OK, big deal, they made a mistake. Well, two weeks later, I stopped at a farm stand advertising heirloom tomatoes, and sure enough, the alleged heirlooms were hybrids. All th ...
Topics: messaging, advertising, greenwashing, agriculture, food (all these topics)

Meat and Dairy, Quite Contrary Cutting meat and milk consumption cuts CO2 emissions, study says		01 Oct 2008	News
Posted at 6:41 AM on 01 Oct 2008 Happy World Vegetarian Day! Just in time for the festivities, a new study from the Food Climate Research Network finds that cutting down on meat and milk consumption can help cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The four-year study focused mainly on the U.K., concluding that dramatically cutting the average Briton's weekly meat and milk intake could help reduce emissions sin ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, food, green living, news, scientific research, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Plate Tectonics On shifting to vegetarianism	Umbra Fisk	29 Sep 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I recently became a vegetarian for environmental reasons. Everyone says I should start eating soy products and tofu. But doesn't soy come from evil industrial farms in Iowa? I thought the idea was to increase biodiversity, not just eat the same thing 20 different ways. Also, can I keep eating eggs and milk? Ben T. New Hampshire Dearest Ben, Why are people so dang bossy about food? There's a vein of "food as ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, food, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

ReGeneration Roadtrip: Victory is ours Visiting the Victory Garden outside San Francisco City Hall	Sarah van Schagen	26 Sep 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post from my travel partner, Todd Dwyer, head blogger for Dell's ReGeneration.org, where the piece originally appeared. ----- Sarah and I have been having a blast so far learning about what people are doing right now to save the planet. Not only have we been treated to the new ways of thinking and innovations being made to this end, but we have also spoken to people who are looking to past generations for more environmentally responsi ...
Topics: San Francisco, sustainable ag, local food, food, agriculture, video, ReGeneration Roadtrip (all these topics)

Thought for Food Gates Foundation wants to boost local agriculture in developing nations		25 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 3:50 PM on 25 Sep 2008 Local agriculture in developing nations will get a boost under an initiative unveiled Wednesday by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and United Nations World Food Program. Under the Purchase for Progress initiative, the WFP will supplement food aid with surplus crops bought at competitive prices from poor farmers. WFP currently purchases 80 percent of its food in develop ...
Topics: Africa, agriculture, food, local food, news, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Pollute-ocracy Why factory farming must be stopped	Jason D Scorse	25 Sep 2008	Gristmill
This is sobering: single concentrated animal feedlots that create more waste than a large U.S. city. There is only one word for this: insane. If you're going to eat meat, don't support industrial meat operations.
Topics: insanity, agriculture, food (all these topics)

ReGeneration Roadtrip: Digging the food justice movement A visit to Alemany Farm in San Francisco	Sarah van Schagen	25 Sep 2008	Gristmill
I drove right past Alemany Farm three times before I finally found it. That's because I wasn't looking up. The mostly volunteer venture that grows organic food (and green jobs) for low-income communities is located on a hillside, the rows and rows of green leafy goodness like rungs on a ladder leading skyward. Once I hiked the hill, though, I found a hard-working group of volunteers with hands in the dirt and smiles on their faces. And they were more th ...
Topics: sustainable ag, local food, agriculture, food, ReGeneration Roadtrip, California, video (all these topics)

Bringing farming home Thoughts on an 'urban farm tour' in Carrboro, N.C.	Tom Philpott	24 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The Farm Tour culminates at Carrboro Community Garden. Photo: Maciek Kryzystoforski What's a farm? I don't want to get buried in technical definitions, but I'll take a stab at an informal one: a substantial piece of productive land. When I step out my front door in Carrboro, N.C. -- where I spend part of my time -- I see plenty of plenty of open land, much of it planted in what might be seen as a cover crop: grass. Of course, the land isn't contiguous. Stree ...
Topics: North Carolina, local food, food, agriculture, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Annals of regulatory malfeasance GAO: EPA has seriously botched CAFO oversight	Tom Philpott	24 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Is the EPA leadership incompetent or malicious? The agency's steady stream of oversights, lapses, and rotten decisions -- which I tried to come to grips with here --� demands a reckoning. The answer appears to be a kind of toxic mix of the two: a malicious desire to please industry interests over public ones, leavened by a dose of sheer idiocy. The GAO has come out with a report confirming what everyone who has ever been near a factory animal farm (aka, a concentrate ...
Topics: agriculture, food, livestock, regulation, toxics, US EPA, waste (all these topics)

Way to Grow! Urban farmer awarded 'genius' grant		23 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 9:35 AM on 23 Sep 2008 Will Allen. Urban farmer Will Allen has been named one of this year's recipients of the prestigious "genius" grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The grant recognizes Allen's work bringing affordable fresh produce and quality grass-fed meats to the urban poor and educating communities about sustainable farming. Allen co-founded the group Growing Power in Milwaukee in the early '9 ...
Topics: agriculture, brilliance, food, gardening, green living, local food, news, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Will Allen: urban farmer, 'genius' Milwaukee's Growing Power founder snags a much-deserved MacArthur	Tom Philpott	23 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Fifteen years ago, a former professional basketball player named Will Allen made a most unlikely career move: he decided to launch a farm in a low-income neighborhood in Milwaukee. His farmhands would be un- or ill-employed neighborhood teens. Will Allen. At the time, brutal economic conditions were pushing the nation's few remaining African-American farmers into bankruptcy; and the concept of "urban farming" seemed more like an oxymoron than an a ...
Topics: brilliance, loal food, food, agriculture (all these topics)

Wheat and ethanol: They just don't mix New research shows that ethanol will continue to increase the cost of wheat	Meredith Niles	19 Sep 2008	Gristmill
I, like most Americans, love bread. Crusty, warm, and fresh-baked bread is a carb overload I am willing to indulge in even if it means a few extra minutes of running. But the American love affair with all things baked might be at jeopardy. We all know that oil and water don't mix, but it's becoming increasingly clear that wheat and ethanol are a bad combination as well. New research from the University of Illinois indicates that the high prices for wheat, as well as ...
Topics: ethanol, biofuels, scientific research, food, agriculture (all these topics)

Bottled water, everywhere Natural Hydration Council: drink more bottled water ... please?	Tom Philpott	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Bottled water sales growth may be "drying up," but the bottled-water industry is veritably gushing on the PR front. Here it is investing in a high-dollar sponsorship of the upcoming presidential campaigns, joining Anheuser-Busch, EDS (which specializes in "information technology outsourcing), BBH, a big U.K. advertising firm, and others. And over here, you've got water giants Nestle Waters, Danone, and Highland Spring rolling out the Natural Hydrati ...
Topics: politics, food, water conflicts, business, agriculture (all these topics)

Dispatches From the Fields: Playing chicken with local food Small-scale slaughterhouses are vital to the health of local food economies	Ariane Lotti	18 Sep 2008	Gristmill
In 'Dispatches From the Fields,' Ariane Lotti and Stephanie Ogburn, who are working on small farms in Iowa and Colorado this season, share their thoughts on producing real food in the midst of America's agro-industrial landscape. ----- A trailer load of chickens. Photos: Ariane Lotti In the cold and dark that is 5:30 a.m. in North Iowa these days, I go out with Jan and Tim of One Step at a Time Gardens to load 129 sleepy and reluctant chickens out ...
Topics: agriculture, food, Iowa, livestock, local food (all these topics)

Gene Genie, Let Yourself Go FDA releases guidelines for developing genetically modified animals		18 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 6:42 AM on 18 Sep 2008 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will today announce guidelines for the development of genetically modified animals, a step on the road to their broad commercialization. The agency is expected to ask companies developing genetically modified animals to report a range of information about how they were engineered and how the alterations could affect the animals' b ...
Topics: agriculture, food, GMOs, news, United States (all these topics)

Slow Food Nation interview: Anna Lapp� Why climate change may have more to do with your shopping cart than your car	Tom Philpott	15 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Anna Lapp� might be called a green-diaper baby. Her mother, Frances Moore Lapp�, brought out the seminal Diet for a Small Planet back in 1971, and has been agitating forcefully for a just, sustainable food system ever since. Her father, the toxicologist Marc Lapp�, was an early, important, and persistent critic of the agrichemical industry. Anna has emerged in her own right as a leading voice in the sustainable food movement. In her work, she focuses not only on ...
Topics: agriculture, events, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, interview, slow food, video (all these topics)

We young farmers, all over the world, we are citizens The key political, economic, and cultural needs of young farmers	Zoe Bradbury	15 Sep 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Severine von Tscharner Fleming, 27, director of The Greenhorns and farmer/activist in the Hudson Valley of New York, and Zo� Ida Bradbury, 29, Oregon farmer and Food & Society Policy Fellow. ----- Coast to coast, though there are thousands inspired to dig in and grow food, but it is currently only a dauntless few who manage to gain access to the land, capital, market-savvy, and technical skills that are essential to 'make it' as a farmer. ...
Topics: agriculture, economy, food, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

The organic times are a changin' New data show that 2008 organic food sales will reach $32.9 billion	Meredith Niles	11 Sep 2008	Gristmill
As people from Haiti to Ethiopia are tragically struggling to cope with rising food prices, many are piecing together the reasons behind our recent price spikes. The culprits lie in everything from the switch to growing crops for biofuels to market speculation. The situation is complex and involves multiple factors. But as economists tally up the numbers and politicians scramble for solutions, others are beginning to wonder if this is the end for organic food as we k ...
Topics: agriculture, food, fossil fuels, organic food (all these topics)

Our daily bread Two trends for bakeries, one encouraging and one dismal	Tom Philpott	11 Sep 2008	Gristmill
It's hard to imagine a vibrant local-food economy without a vibrant bakery scene. The capacity to efficiently turn something as bland as flour into something delicious and substantial seems key. In energy terms, baking several hundred loaves of bread a day in a commercial operation makes more sense than every family cranking out a loaf a day in the home oven -- especially if the bakery is centrally located. (Not that I don't love home-baking.) I'm thinking about the & ...
Topics: agriculture, food, local food (all these topics)

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