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Mooo-ve over, FDA Consumers demand market rejection of food from cloned animals	Lisa J. Bunin	05 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Consumer market rejection seems to be the ongoing theme of U.S. food politics in the waning days of Bush's inept Food and Drug Administration. Given FDA's repeated failure to protect our nation's food supply or to respond quickly and appropriately to outbreaks of food-borne illnesses, consumers have turned to food companies and demanded that they now take the lead in safeguarding our nation's food. Public opposition to milk and meat from clones has caused 20 major f ...
Topics: agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, Big Ag, food, livestock, business (all these topics)

Slow Food Nation: Whole Foods to pay up for tomatoes Benitez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers says deal imminent with Whole Foods	Tom Philpott	04 Sep 2008	Gristmill
I'm a lame blogger when it comes to breaking news at conferences, when my brain typically reaches explosion point with all the information zooming in.I should have live-blogged this Saturday, while I was taking in Slow Food Nation's 'Toward a new, fair food system' panel: Coalition of Immokalee Workers leader Lucas Benitez revealed that Whole Foods is on the verge of agreeing to pay an extra penny per pound for the Florida-grown tomatoes it buys. As part of its 'Cam ...
Topics: events, slow food, environmental justice, agriculture, business, food (all these topics)

Monsanto finds a buyer for its rBGH business Pharma giant Lilly snaps up Posilac for 'at least' $300 million	Tom Philpott	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
A week or so ago, commenting on news that Monsanto was looking to unload its much-despised bovine-growth-hormone business, I offered this nugget of wisdom: Whatever company buys it probably won't have Monsanto's deep pockets. Hmmm. What's that word again? Oh, yeah -- W-R-O-N-G. (Hat tip to Jill of La Vida Locavore.)Today, Monsanto announced that Eli Lilly, one of the biggest of the Big Pharma companies, had bought Posilac (brand name for rBGH) for $300 million. AP r ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

South Central Community Farm: Not dead yet In L.A., Mayor Villaraigosa plays footsie with Forever 21 over site of former farm	Tom Philpott	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Photo: loudtiger When I lived in New York City, I used to marvel at the weeds that would force their way up through sidewalk cracks. What a will to live, I thought: From clumps of dirt crammed between concrete slabs, these vigorous shoots fended off the hard, slapping heels of a thousand rushing city dwellers, just to claim a place in the sun. The effort to save South Central Community Farm in Los Angeles reminds me of those defiant survivors. Stepped on by the ...
Topics: business, fashion, food, gardening, green living, green space, local politics, Los Angeles, shopping (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: Whole Foods edition The natural foods giant stumbles into an E. coli outbreak	Tom Philpott	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat industry. Suddenly, Whole Foods can't get a break. Its share price has plunged about 70 percent since the end of 2005. Its marketing execs are scrambling to shed the company's reputation for premium-priced offerings -- a market position they once reveled in. The natural foods titan used to wow Wall Street with seemingly endless announcements of new-store openings. Now it's scaling back expansion plans. ...
Topics: animal welfare, business, food, health, livestock (all these topics)

Not a sweet proposition As GMO sugar beets sneak into the food supply, citizens fight back	Lisa J. Bunin	08 Aug 2008	Gristmill
'Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.' -- Anthropologist Margaret Mead Even if you've heard the above quote many times before, the sentiment expressed is so powerful that I think it's worth repeating. All around the world, small groups of people are organizing public support for improved food safety and successfully challenging large corporations to change their behavior. That's ...
Topics: agriculture, business, food, GMOs, grassroots activism (all these topics)

Whole in the Middle Whole Foods tries to shake its elitist reputation		04 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 4:11 PM on 04 Aug 2008 Whole Foods Market, with its gleaming displays of organic produce, antibiotic-free meat, and vegan baked goods, has long branded itself as a high-quality grocery retailer -- thus earning the nickname Whole Paycheck and a reputation for elitism. But with the economy sagging -- bringing with it, according to some analysts, consumer interest in organic food -- Whole Foods is aiming to tout itself ...
Topics: advertising, business, economy, food, greenish companies, news, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Wal-Mart Comes to the Farmers Market As the ground shifts under their feet, food giants experiment with new strategies	Tom Philpott	11 Jul 2008	Victual Reality
When you smile, the food world smiles with you ... maybe. Photo: Original by heatkernel For more than a generation, the major corporations that process and sell the vast bulk of our food have had it pretty easy. They've had access to cheap energy to ship food over globe-spanning distances and run giant food-processing plants; reveled in cheap inpu ...
Topics: agriculture, business, food, green living, industrial ag, shopping, Victual Reality, Walmart (all these topics)

Chipotle grilled When will the conscientious burrito giant pay up for less exploitative tomatoes?	Tom Philpott	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Tomato pickers in Florida: To earn $50, fill and carry 125 buckets. Photo: Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Chipotle Grill has received a lot of good press over its efforts to support local food systems in the areas where it operates. Even I've gotten into the act. In a post back in March, I reported on a conversation I had had with a Chipotle PR person: I told her that as long as Chipotle was committed to paying a fair price to farmers -- and no ...
Topics: agriculture, business, food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Milking sustainability Sustainability goals for the U.S. dairy industry	Meredith Niles	03 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Last week, we witnessed the dairy industry hold their first ever Sustainability Summit for U.S. Dairy. The week long conference culminated in the announcement of an industry-wide commitment and action plan to reduce milk's 'carbon footprint' while simultaneously increasing business value (translation: profit) from farm to consumer. But how truly 'green' are their efforts? Sustainability -- ah, it sounds so good doesn't it? In recent years it has become the buzz ...
Topics: business, climate, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, organic food (all these topics)

Just Beyond the Parking Lot Wal-Mart gobbles up local produce		02 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:55 AM on 02 Jul 2008 You thought you took home a haul at the farmers market last week, but you've got nothin' on Wal-Mart. The big-box retailer has become the nation's largest buyer of local produce, planning to purchase and sell $400 million worth of locally grown fruits and veggies this year. Wal-Mart says it works with "hundreds" of individual farmers, and has 50 percent more partnerships with local growers t ...
Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, local food, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

What I saw at the Summit Thoughts from the big organic confab in Boulder	Tom Philpott	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Attending last week's Organic Summit, held within the tasteful confines of the St. Julien Hotel and Spa in Boulder, was a very, well, organic experience. It started with the hotel itself. The St. Julien, a human-scale building right in downtown Boulder, exudes calm. The lobby, a light, airy space overlooking a sun-dappled garden with mountain views behind, practically echoes with a low and relaxing ohhhmmm. As far as accommodations, I get drowsy just thinking about the ...
Topics: greening biz operations, sustainable ag, organic food, food, business (all these topics)

All hail Monsanto! When the benevolent seed giant declares it's going to save the world, why be skeptical?	Guest author	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post from Claire Hope Cummings, an environmental journalist covering food and farming stories for print, broadcast, and online media. She practiced law for for 20 years, including four years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She has farmed in California and Vietnam and is the author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds (2008). ----- Do you worry about where your food comes from? Are you concerned that farmers might ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, health (all these topics)

The Future's Coming Fast U.N. report forecasts continued high food prices for the next decade		29 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:12 PM on 29 May 2008 Food prices worldwide are likely to remain relatively high for at least the next decade, according to an analysis by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Biofuel demand, high energy costs, and commodity speculation will continue to keep food prices high in the long term, despite periodic dips in price. Climate change is also expected to increase food pr ...
Topics: agriculture, business, food, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Coffee, Mate McDonald's Australia will sell certified-sustainable coffee		27 May 2008	News
Posted at 5:16 PM on 27 May 2008 Starting next year, all coffee sold at McDonald's in Australia will be certified sustainable by the Rainforest Alliance. The country's 484 so-called McCaf�s make 5,000 cups of joe per hour; Mickey D's pockets 20 percent of the more than $1 billion that Aussies spend on away-from-home coffee. The Rainforest Alliance certifies coffee farms that reduce pesticide use and treat farmers decently. ...
Topics: agriculture, Australia, business, food, news, sustainable ag (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)

Say goodbye to 'cides Home Depot announces an end to traditional pesticide sales in Canada	Fawn Pattison	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill
For consumers concerned about pervasive toxics in the environment, this has been a very good Earth Week.� Especially if you live in Canada. Home Depot announced this week that it would stop selling "traditional" lawn and garden pesticides in all its Canadian stores.The reason? Consumers don't want them anymore. People in Canada seem to have discovered that you don't need to spread poisons around your yard in order to garden. Amazing! A huge part of that a ...
Topics: business, Canada, food, gardening, toxics (all these topics)

Down to the Last Drop Nalgene, Wal-Mart back away from BPA		18 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:08 PM on 18 Apr 2008 Bottle manufacturer Nalgene will stop using plastic containing bisphenol A in response to concerns from the National Toxicology Program and the Canadian health department that the chemical probably shouldn't be sucked on by kids. Nalgene says it still believes its clear, hard plastic bottles "are safe for their intended use" but says it's responding to customers who "indicated they preferr ...
Topics: business, food, green living, green products, health, news, shopping, toxics (all these topics)

Who's cashing in on the high price of food? With food riots raging, let's open the books on the finances of Big Ag	Anna Lappe	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill
When we talk about the crisis in food prices, we should scrape below the surface to explore who's actually benefiting from the crisis. Unless you've had your head stuck in the freezer at Dean & Deluca, you've heard about the food crisis across the planet. A recent Financial Times displayed this staggering map of the globe: Black dots marked each of the countries were food riots have been sparked in outrage against the rising prices of food. Thirty dots in all. ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, business, food, World Bank (all these topics)

Coke: 'it' with the foodies? Yes, according to a new 'artisanal' restaurant in Atlanta	Tom Philpott	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A press release heralding a new restaurant in Atlanta crossed my email inbox recently. Everything seemed pretty standard at first: Holeman and Finch Public House, opening April 14, intends to serve 'food and drink ... with unrivaled quality and care.' The chef evidently revels in 'whole-animal preparations' and plans to make his own 'charcuterie such as coppa, bresaola, and tom thumbs.' Photo: Samuel Wong Sounds good to me. I applaud nose-to-tail cookery, ...
Topics: advertising, business, food, Georgia, health, insanity, messaging (all these topics)

Poll: Rising food prices Are you spending more money on food?	Grist	16 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Food prices are soaring around the globe. Have you felt the pinch? Take our poll and tell us. You can vote below the fold. And read recent Grist content on the topic: Why Michael Pollan and Alice Waters should quit celebrating food-price hikes How expensive is food, really? Higher food prices mean crappier cafeteria fare for kids
Topics: agriculture, business, economy, food, green living, shopping (all these topics)

Coke: Still 'it' with the kids Coca-Cola and McD's top brands among teens, study says	Tom Philpott	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Taneli Mielik�inen There has been a lot of great work in the last decade to wake kids up to alternatives to industrial food. Here and there, farm-to-school programs have been launched, soft drinks banished from cafeterias, books like Eric Schlosser's Chew on This have emerged. Yet clearly, much more work needs to be done. Seems that teens are still gulping down Coke and flocking to McDonald's (when they're not heading for Burger King, evidently seen ...
Topics: advertising, agriculture, business, food, health, industrial ag, messaging (all these topics)

ANWR of the heartland? Why plowing up Conservation Reserve Program land won't solve the food crisis	Tom Philpott	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Uh oh. The New York Times reports that 'thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government's biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate.' Rather then let the ground lie fallow, they're planting it with corn, soy, and wheat -- the price of each of which stands near or above all-time highs. 'Last fall, they took back as many acres as are in Rhode Island and Delaware combined,' The Times reports. And there's serious pressure to bring mo ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, cellulosic ethanol, economy, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

Can industrial agriculture feed the world? Part 2 Global food riots edition	Tom Philpott	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill
A couple of months ago, I raised the question, can industrial agriculture feed the world?I was being intentionally provocative. For decades, policymakers have treated low-input, diversified agriculture -- 'organic' in the sense described by the great British agriculture scholar Sir Albert Howard -- as a kind of hippy indulgence. Sure, it's nice to grow food without poison, but you can't feed the world that way. To feed the globe's teeming masses, you need loads of mined ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

Smithfield's European strategy The hog giant CAFOizes Poland and Romania to gain access to Western Europe	Tom Philpott	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Farmers in Iowa and North Carolina -- the two states that together house nearly half of U.S. hog production [PDF] -- won't be surprised by this report, from the International Herald Tribune: The American bacon producer, Smithfield Farms, now operates a dozen vast industrial pig farms in Poland. Importing cheap soy feed from South America, which the company feeds intensively to its tens of thousands of pigs, it has caused the price of pork to drop dramatically ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, European Union, food, industrial ag, Poland, Romania (all these topics)

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