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Just because it's awesome	David Roberts	10 May 2007	Gristmill
Occasionally I like to revisit one of the greatest magazine feature leads ever written: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. Perfect.
Topics: food, green living, health (all these topics)

Poison the people? Everyone's doing it Canada may raise pesticide levels to match U.S.	Katharine Wroth	10 May 2007	Gristmill
Every day there are roughly 1,347 stories I wish we could cover in Daily Grist. Here's one that didn't make the cut today, but that I can't get out of my head: in an effort to bring its rules in line with the U.S., Canada is getting ready to raise allowable levels of pesticides on food. Canadian authorities say it's just an effort to smooth out trade relations, and will be decided on a case-by-case basis. But critics say Canada and the U.S. already use more pesticid ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Canada, food, United States (all these topics)

Cutting the purse (seine) strings Senators call for a worldwide end to fishing subsidies	Andrew Sharpless	09 May 2007	Gristmill
The only thing worse than overfishing our oceans and driving species to the brink of extinction is the government paying to do it. That's been the case for far too long, as upwards of $30 billion (that's billion, with a 'b') worth of subsidies are handed over to the fishing industry every year. A whopping $20 billion of that is used for things like boat repairs, fishing equipment, and fuel -- expenses that allow for increased and intensified fishing practices.Thi ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, food, oceans (all these topics)

Monsanto tastes defeat Twice in one week!	Tom Philpott	08 May 2007	Gristmill
Monsanto has barreled its way toward dominance over the global seed market with strong-arm tactics and friends in high places. As evidence of the former, the roguish company once threatened to sue me -- then a neophyte blogger with 30 readers -- on the most trivial grounds possible. As for the latter, software monopolist Bill Gates, evidently impressed with the way Monsanto tosses around its market girth, has tapped a former Monsanto exec to help lead his foundation' ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

The sweet smell of an organic coffee victory It's safe, for now	Samuel Fromartz	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Organic coffee is safe, for now. In a victory for organic farmers in the developing world and organic coffee drinkers here, the USDA's National Organic Program has backed down and said that there will be no immediate change in the way these farmers are certified. The NOP had quietly announced in March that it was changing certification procedures for these farms, meaning that their future as organic farmers was in jeopardy. The change would have increased costs s ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, organic food, politics (all these topics)

Fork it Over: Ways of bee-ing So far, small-scale, local-minded beekeepers have dodged hive collapse.	Tom Philpott	02 May 2007	Gristmill
This post marks the launch of Fork it Over, in which I (attempt to) answer questions inspired by my Victual Reality column. Got a question about food and the politics that surround it? Fork it over, by emailing it to victuals(at)grist(dot)org. Reader Brooklynolmec writes in to inquire: are organically managed bees faring any better these days than their industrially farmed peers? As most readers will know, the U.S. is currently in the grip of a widespread honeybe ...
Topics: agriculture, biodiversity, extinction, food (all these topics)

Haste Makes Waste Savor your flavors with the slow-food movement	Roz Cummins	02 May 2007	'Tis the Season
This is the fourth in a series of articles about connecting with people over food. Read others on setting up a dining co-op, celebrating Passover, and hosting an Earth Dinner. When I told a friend that I was writing an article about slow food, she said, "What's that? The opposite of fast food?" In a word, yes. Carlo Petrini. Photo: slowfood.de The first time I heard about the slow-food movement ...
Topics: books, food, recipes, slow food, Tis the Season (all these topics)

Food Chain Radio: great edible audio	Erik Hoffner	02 May 2007	Gristmill
I'd like to recommend Food Chain Radio to all you people who like to eat. This podcast/broadcast is freely available and fascinating, delving into the implications of our appetites: everything from factory farming and CAFOs to irradiation and poisoned pet food. The most interesting recent show available at the link above is called Grandma's Wartime Kitchen, which discusses a time of rationing when oddities like knuckle of pork and stuffed beef heart became culinary trea ...
Topics: food, agriculture, industrial ag, ag policy, politics (all these topics)

Zero tolerance for shark fin soup No more compromise	Jason D Scorse	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
This is one issue where there can't be any compromise at this point: the demand for shark fin soup is decimating shark populations and marine ecosystems, and must stop. Whereas most forms of animal consumption put strains on ecosystems, this practice is extreme and environmentalists should continue to wage a "zero tolerance" campaign against it. It's not cultural imperialism or Big Brother, it's common sense and respect for life.
Topics: food, endangered species, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

More bitter chocolate What the choco-giants are up to.	Tom Philpott	30 Apr 2007	Gristmill
A couple of weeks ago, we noted here that Big Food is haranguing the FDA to loosen the definition of 'chocolate' to allow for adulteration. At the time, I didn't know why the industrial chocolate giants were agitating for this dubious cause. Now I think I know: cocoa-bean prices rose abruptly last year, pushed up by strong global demand and bad weather and political unrest in the Ivory Coast, the world's most prolific cocoa-producing nation. By scheming to subs ...
Topics: Big Ag, food, Food and Drug Administration, politics (all these topics)

Challenging Monsanto in Munich A guest blog from farmer's rights legend Hope Shand	Tom Philpott	28 Apr 2007	Gristmill
In the global fight to preserve what's left of agricultural biodiversity from the ravages of the multinational chemical/seed giants and their government lackeys, no civil-society organization stands taller than the ETC Group. Among other projects, ETC documents the growing dominance over the global seed market by a handful of firms: Monsanto, Syngenta, and Dupont. The following guest post, by ETC research director Hope Shand, details Monsanto's quest to enforce it ...
Topics: Big Ag, biodiversity, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

Shark tales down under Bull sharks abound in Golden Coast canals	Andrew Sharpless	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
It's no wonder so many people flock to Queensland, Australia. The fastest growing region on the southeast side of the continent down under offers a subtropical climate with an outdoorsy lifestyle -- and an abundance of bull sharks? These feisty elasmobranches are so abundant in fact that residents are catching them off apartment balconies with rigs no more complicated than a pork chop tied to a string.Though bull sharks abound in the Golden Coast canals, sharks o ...
Topics: fishing, food, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Pollan continues to fail to ever write anything less than awesome The new NYT piece does not disappoint	David Roberts	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I can't believe no Gristian has yet commented on the latest Michael Pollan piece in the NYT. What, is saying 'Pollan has a new piece and it's awesome' getting tedious? This one focuses on the farm bill and how it makes us fat: A public-health researcher from Mars might legitimately wonder why a nation faced with what its surgeon general has called 'an epidemic' of obesity would at the same time be in the business of subsidizing the production of high-fructose corn ...
Topics: food, green living, health, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

A clean start Can a mother survive without antibacterial wipes?	Christine Gardner	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
A few Sundays back, the newspaper seemed to spill an overwhelming number of cleaning-product coupons onto my living-room floor. 'It's like They know,' my husband said. 'They're on to you.' 'They' are the companies selling household liquids and powders for a little spring cleaning. And the secret my husband thought they'd discovered? I had decided to purge my pine-fresh scents and 99.9 percent germ killers in favor of a few products our 'great-grandparents use ...
Topics: CSAs, food, green cleaning, green living, green products, parenting (all these topics)

Unrigging the game How to stop the agribiz giants from impeding the growth of local food.	Tom Philpott	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
In today's Victual Reality I discussed how a few companies dominate U.S. food production, and how their market girth weighs heavily on efforts to rebuild local-oriented, environmentally and socially responsible food networks. Now I'd like to add a few words on what might be done to remedy the situation. First of all, it's important to note that heavily consolidated food markets rig the game to favor large-scale, industrial-style farming. As companies like Cargill a ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, industrial ag, local food, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Plenty to think about Now that I've actually read the book ...	Kate Sheppard	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
When I caught up with 100-mile dieters Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon a few weeks ago, they were just kicking off their book tour with a stop in Toronto, and I hadn't even had a chance to read Plenty, in which they recount a year of local eating. Sure, I had the basic info -- one man, one woman, a year of eating only food grown within 100-mile radius of their Vancouver, B.C. home. They'd kept up a blog on their website, 100milediet.org, posted regular dispatches o ...
Topics: food, local food, Vancouver (all these topics)

Feeding the world sustainably	Gar Lipow	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.) If heaven was a pie it would be cherry Cool and sweet and heavy on your tongue And just one bite would satisfy your hunger And there'd always be enough for everyone -- Gretchen Peters, 'If Heaven' Agriculture for food and fiber represents another significant category of environmental impact. Before we worry about how to farm, we should consider how much agriculture we need. If you read the technical news, when this subject ...
Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, organic food (all these topics)

Cloves to Home Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon chew the fat on their 100-mile diet	Kate Sheppard	24 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Two years ago, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon set out to see if it was still possible, in these hyper-globalized times, to live off food grown in your own 'hood. The pair made a pact to dine on dishes culled from within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver, B.C., home for an entire year. Their personal experiment quickly evolved into a movement, and now Smith, a freelance journalist w ...
Topics: books, food, green living, interview, local food, Vancouver (all these topics)

Different Farm Bill this time around? Pollan weighs in	Jason D Scorse	21 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Michael Pollan thinks so. Let's hope he's right. Call your Senators and Representatives to make sure.
Topics: agriculture, Congress, food, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Bitter chocolate ADM gets its filthy paws on an immaculate confection	Tom Philpott	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Earlier today, Trina Stout brought to our attention a food crime in progress: the FDA is quietly preparing to let manufacturers adulterate chocolate by replacing cocoa butter with cheap vegetable oil. This will allow them to cut costs on candy bars and use cocoa butter for more valuable purposes -- thus undermining the quality of the chocolate most people eat and further brutalizing palates. I did some checking around, figuring I'd find Archer Daniels Midland's ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food (all these topics)

The war on chocolate Willy Wonka would be pissed	Trina Stout	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The FDA is thinking about allowing Big Chocolate to pass off waxy imitations as the real deal: Like all foods in the United States, chocolate is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration to ensure that consumers get a safe and consistent product. But perhaps no longer. The FDA is entertaining a "citizen's petition" to allow manufacturers to substitute vegetable fats and oils for cocoa butter. The "citizens" who created this petition represe ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living (all these topics)

Coffee roasters perk up on USDA ruling Sign a petition	Samuel Fromartz	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The issue regarding certification of organic farmers in the Third World continues to gain steam. Equal Exchange, the organic and fair trade coffee group, has a petition drive (scroll to bottom of page) to block the USDA decision that would decertify organic 'grower groups' such as coffee co-ops. Grist had a spirited discussion on this previously.A comment from Equal Exchange over at Chews Wisely states: We at Equal Exchange are working with others in the National O ...
Topics: agriculture, food, organic food, politics (all these topics)

An organic House ... or at least one representative	Samuel Fromartz	18 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The House of Representatives held its first Ag committee hearing ever on organic agriculture today. I attended the hearing and found out Rep. Dennis Cardoza, the California Democrat who chairs of the House subcommittee on horticulture and organic agriculture, belongs to an organic CSA! For a full report, see the post on Chews Wise.
Topics: agriculture, Congress, food, organic food, politics (all these topics)

Vegetarianism: gateway drug to liberal snobbery? Or, what I learned watching The King of Queens last night	Sarah van Schagen	17 Apr 2007	Gristmill
What I learned while watching The King of Queens last night: Once you give up meat, it's a slippery, slippery slope to becoming one of those nagging, know-it-all, hemp-hawking, finger-pointing, tree-hugging, self-righteous environmentalists we're all trying to distance ourselves from (or most of us, anyway).The episode begins as main character Doug Heffernan -- a delivery-truck-driving, junk-food-loving, red-blooded American living in Queens -- almost runs over a c ...
Topics: celebrity, food, green living, TV (all these topics)

Wal-Mart's organic bust And another way forward.	Tom Philpott	12 Apr 2007	Gristmill
On April Fool's Day, Grist ran a fake bit on how Wal-Mart had 'pulled the plug' on much-ballyhooed green initiatives, including its plan to to become the nation's number-one organic grocer. 'In the end, our customers value low prices more than sustainability, and at Wal-Mart, we listen to our customers,' Wal-Mart's CEO (fictionally) said. As so often happens these days, fact may be leaping ahead of satire. BusinessWeek reported today that the retail behemoth ...
Topics: business, food, greenwashing, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

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