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U. of North Carolina students say no to Smithfield pork Pushing for 'fair food' on campus in the land of hog factories	Tom Philpott	08 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Last year, a bunch of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill got tired of the industrial dreck served up in the cafeteria. They discovered that the landscape around them was producing some amazing, chemical-free meat and produce and set about figuring out how to get some in school dining halls. Photo: iStockphoto Led by seniors Sally Lee and David Hamilton, they declared themselves FLO Food (FLO = fair, local, organic), and began negot ...
Topics: agriculture, campus activism, education, food, industrial ag, local food, North Carolina, organic food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Stonyfield Farm responds Gary Hirshberg argues that his company is doing a lot to support organic dairy farmers	Guest author	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest post from Stonyfield Farm President and CE-Yo Gary Hirshberg, written in response to a post by Ed Maltby, executive director of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance. ----- Gary Hirshberg Londonderry, N.H.: These are difficult times for the organic dairy industry, and as we have demonstrated consistently for over a decade, we are deeply engaged in the effort to find solutions that balance escalating supply costs wi ...
Topics: agriculture, business, food, organic food (all these topics)

How now, organic cow? As energy, healthcare, and feed costs skyrocket, organic dairy farmers get squeezed	Guest author	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest post by Ed Maltby, executive director of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance. ----- Deerfield, Mass.: What is more important to Stonyfield Farm and HP Hood, market share or the health and welfare of their organic family farmers? Photo: iStockphoto If you ask 24-year-old Mark Ouellette Jr., who supplies organic milk to HP Hood that is sold under the Stonyfield label, his answer is very clear: market share. 'I'm losi ...
Topics: agriculture, business, economy, food, organic food (all these topics)

Feeling peckish? Moby's new video pokes at KFC	Sarah van Schagen	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Bald techno-greenie Moby sends a chicken pimp after the Colonel in his "Disco Lies" video: 'Disco lies' from Moby on Vimeo.
Topics: celebrity, food, green living, music, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Admit it: fish is meat Would Jesus eat fish during Lent?	Erik Hoffner	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Jennifer Jacquet of the Sea Around Us Project just published a solid and timely essay with Science & Spirit magazine. The piece begins by asking: If Jesus can turn two fish into enough to feed five thousand people, now would be a good time to intervene. According to researchers, each American ate nearly a half-pound more seafood last year than the year before. As we reach the end of the Christian season of Lent -- the period in which seafood consumption is at its ...
Topics: food, green living, religion and spirituality, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Pay Rent and Eat Too? Rising food prices hit home around the world	Tom Philpott	06 Mar 2008	Victual Reality
Is a change coming to your cart? Photo: iStockphoto Hey you, in the supermarket line -- yeah, you, the one with the stuffed cart. Are you ready to pay up for those groceries? You'd better be, pal. That's the message from Bill Lapp, former chief economist for the food giant Conagra. "I think [U.S.] consumers are more prepared than we realize to accept higher prices on food and I think that's pa ...
Topics: agriculture, environmental justice, food, green living, shopping, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: Beef behemoth If deals go through, three firms will own 90 percent of the U.S. beef market	Tom Philpott	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat and livestock industries. You'd be hard-pressed to find an industry more consolidated than beef-packing. Just four companies slaughter 83.5 percent of cows consumed in the United States. In standard antitrust theory, a market stops being competive when the four biggest players control 40 percent. The beef industry's extraordinary concentration gives the Big Four massive leverage to dictate how beef is ra ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

The Bees' Needs On organic honey	Umbra Fisk	05 Mar 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I was looking for a nice, local, organic honey to use in reworking some recipes so that they didn't use sugar. So I headed to Whole Foods, and was stuck looking at a honey in a plastic container labeled organic from Brazil, and a local product in a glass container but not labeled organic. And I started wondering -- what makes honey organic? I mean, bees fly. How do you know what plants they ate or pollinated unless you've cag ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, green living, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Whaling and Gnashing of Teeth Norway says whale consumption is good for the planet		04 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:53 PM on 04 Mar 2008 Eating whale meat is better for the planet than eating beef, pork, or chicken, according to a comparative carbon-emissions calculation by Norwegian lobbying group the High North Alliance. Says the alliance's Rune Froevik, in what may be a bit of an exaggeration, "Basically it turns out that the best thing you can do for the planet is to eat whale meat compared to other types ...
Topics: Australia, climate, food, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, Greenpeace, Japan, news, Norway, oceans, whaling (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, food, local food, politics (all these topics)

Genetically modified fruits and veggies in U.S.? Forbes says that Frankenfruits are already here	Tom Philpott	01 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In the mid-'90s, amid much fuss, a biotech firm called Calgene introduced the Flav'r Saver tomato. Genetically engineered to last longer on the shelf, the Flav'r Saver didn't turn out to have much 'flav'r' to save. To make a long story short, consumers generally steered clear of it; farmers had trouble growing it; Calgene burned hundreds of millions developing and marketing it; and eventually ended up tossing it on history's compost pile. In the end, Monsanto ended u ...
Topics: food, agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Seas Sick Fishing for hope at a seafood-industry trade show	Roz Cummins	28 Feb 2008	'Tis the Season
Photo: Chris Seufert Viewed from a distance, the Boston Convention Center looks a bit like a great white whale -- an appropriate setting for the annual International Boston Seafood Show. The building's vast interior offers great vistas for people-watching, often through huge glass windows. People move through the hallways and aisles in large groups; watching them was a bit like gawking at schools of fish th ...
Topics: food, green living, oceans, recipes, Tis the Season (all these topics)

Bam!	Sarah van Schagen	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill
TV chef Emeril Lagasse kicks it up a notch.
Topics: TV, food (all these topics)

Personal miscellany break	David Roberts	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Dear people who have sent me email in the last month or so, to whom I honestly meant to reply -- even marked the email "important" -- but still haven't yet, I'm sorry. I lost a week to a snowboarding vacation, another week to being distracted by the thought that I wanted to drop out of society and snowboard full time, two days to jury duty, and who knows how many more hours trying to catch up with all the news I missed. Also I'm a bad person. I shall endea ...
Topics: food (all these topics)

The Ripe Stuff On organic bananas	Umbra Fisk	27 Feb 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Why are organic bananas always smaller and almost always greener than non-organic? BG Tallahassee, Fla. Dearest BG, Hmm. Fresh organic fruits and vegetables often differ in appearance from their conventionally grown kin. They're the hippies of the produce world: unwaxed, expressing their individualism, coming to the produce stand as they are, lumps and all. Although I notice this has changed some over the past couple decade ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, green living, organic food, shopping (all these topics)

Farm bill agonistes After all the fuss, looks like we might get an extension of the 2002 farm bill	Tom Philpott	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Photo: iStockphoto Remember the farm bill -- the omnibus federal legislation that generated so much sound and fury last year? Like a downer cow slouching toward its executioner, the farm bill still lives, sort of. The House, Senate, and president are haggling over it, squabbling over the bill's price tag and how it will be funded. If they don't hash something out by March 15, they may just extend the 2002 farm bill. Here's what Tom Harkin, chair of th ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, legislation, politics (all these topics)

On the Ball: Steroids side effects Roger Clemens doesn't know what a vegan is	Sarah K. Burkhalter	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This is a couple of weeks old, but it is still awesome:
Topics: food, sports, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Like calves to the slaughter The beef recall shows yet again that the USDA doesn't protect schoolchildren	Guest author	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest column by frequent Gristmill contributors Ann Cooper and Kate Adamick. Cooper serves as director of nutrition services for the Berkeley Unified School District and is author of Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way America Feeds its Children. Adamick is a New York-based food systems consultant specializing in school food reform and the director of The Orfalea Fund's Cool Food Initiative in Santa Barbara, Calif. ----- The USDA recently took action to for ...
Topics: agriculture, education, food, health (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: Cow-feed misdeeds More trouble with ethanol waste as cow chow	Tom Philpott	25 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat industry. Remember the good old days, when gigantic meat and dairy producers stuffed cows into feedlots and fed them corn? Sure, cows evolved to eat grass, and corn wears out their livers (and makes their digestive tracts friendly to E. coli 0157, a strain harmless to cows but deadly to humans).Yet we may soon look back fondly on those days. The government-mandated spike in ethanol production has made corn ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, ethanol, food, waste (all these topics)

Garbage in, garbage out Survey of 'experts' on genetic food tampering leaves out farmers	JMG	25 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This is sad. Billed as a survey of what 'farmers' think of genetic tampering with food crops, the survey left out one important group: farmers. Restricting itself to large-scale commodity growers, the survey is garbage in, garbage out. I doubt that such notables as Gene Logsdon, Wendell Berry, and Joel Salatin would qualify as 'experts' to these folk.
Topics: agriculture, food, GMOs (all these topics)

Threatened to the Gills World fisheries still in danger of imminent collapse, says U.N.		25 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:07 AM on 25 Feb 2008 When last we checked in on the world's commercial fish stocks, they were in danger of collapsing within decades. And, sorry to say, they still are, according to a United Nations Environment Program report ominously titled "In Dead Water." Factor in climate change, overfishing, and pollution "and you see you're potentially putting a death nail in the coffin of w ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

Bread-line time? With wheat stocks at all-time lows, a fertilizer magnate utters the F-word	Tom Philpott	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Famine. For us Americans, the word conjures images of heart-rending scenes from distant shores: the kind of images a sad-eyed Sally Struthers busts our chops about on late-night cable TV. Famine is an abstract concept, a specter haunting not us, but distant ancestors and exotic-looking people in faraway lands. Of course, as Richard Manning drives home in his book Against the Grain, famines have riddled human society since the rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago. ...
Topics: agriculture, food (all these topics)

I know why the caged hen squawks U.K. government says organic, free-range eggs have 'significantly' less salmonella	Tom Philpott	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The case for sustainably grown food as a healthier and safer alternative to industrial dreck is gaining force.Here's the latest, from Natural Choices UK:A recent [U.K.] government survey shows that organic laying hen farms have a significantly lower level of Salmonella. Salmonella is a bacterium that causes one of the commonest forms of food poisoning worldwide. The study showed that 23.4 per cent of farms with caged hens tested positive for salmonella compared to 4.4 p ...
Topics: agriculture, food, health, organic food, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Thirsty Livingstone, We Presume? Mayor urges Londoners to boycott bottled water		20 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:46 PM on 20 Feb 2008 London Mayor Ken Livingstone has joined the anti-bottle brigade, exhorting Londoners to drink from the sink and declaring that bottled water served to restaurant patrons costs 500 times more than tap water and is 300 times more damaging to the environment. sources:� Reuters, Agence France-Presse see also, in Grist:� Campaign will let restaurant patrons donate to drinking-water projec ...
Topics: food, London, news, water conflicts (all these topics)

Monsanto U. Public-university researchers get cash for studying GMOs -- and the shaft for studying organic ag	Guest author	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Nancy Scola, a Brooklyn-based writer. Her essay, which first appeared on Alternet, is a lucid, detailed look at what has become of public-university agriculture research in an age of budget austerity. ----- I've startled a bug scientist. 'Yeah, now I'm nervous,' said Mike Hoffmann, a Cornell University entomologist and crop specialist who spends his days with cucumber beetles and small wasps. But he's also in charge of keeping the ...
Topics: agriculture, education, food, GMOs, industrial ag, organic food, scientific research (all these topics)

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