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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)

Java justice Implications of the last organic latte	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	12 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Fair Trade producers in Mexico depend heavily on organic certification to reap price premiums for both labels, and will be hurt on more than one front by the recently released USDA rule requiring them to change certification practices, researchers say. In a recent article in Salon, later followed by a post on Gristmill, Samuel Fromartz detailed the consequences of a USDA ruling that would force a radical change in the way grower groups in the global South ce ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, organic food (all these topics)

Genetic tampering explodes in our face The sorcerer's apprentice running amok in ag?	JMG	10 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Gene tampering (called "genetic modification" by the same people who call gambling "gaming" and sewer sludge "biosolids") is a terrible idea, said the "extreme environmentalists" who warned that, nature being what it is, it wouldn't be long before we would see invasive weed species adopting whatever characteristics we created. Those same 'alarmists' warned that gene tampering had nothing to do with helping feed the world, but instead ha ...
Topics: agriculture, food, GMOs (all these topics)

Brooklyn vacation report A good time was had by ... me	David Roberts	09 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Just got back in town today. Not quite ready to jump back in the grind, so I'll procrastinate a bit by talking about my vacation. We woke up Saturday morning(ish) to discover that quite literally across the street from the friend's place where we were staying (on the east side of Fort Green Park) there was a little street market, with vendors selling local, organic, farm-raised, home-baked, hand-crafted, packed-full-of-authentic-goodness foodstuffs and crafts. Thus, ...
Topics: food, New York, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

The last organic latte Organic coffee deep-sixed	Samuel Fromartz	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Due a recent decision over at the USDA's National Organic Program, organic coffee, in the U.S. at least, may be a thing of the past. I wrote about this decision on Salon and did not shout it out to Gristies right away (mea culpa), but I am now. The USDA decision, which affects the way small farmer cooperatives in the Third World are certified, will also dry up supplies of organic cocoa and curtail bananas. So eat your organic Dagoba bars now while they're still ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, organic food (all these topics)

Slow Food nation Crafting a culture of change	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Yale University students, staff, and other community members crowded a university conference room yesterday to watch Erika Lesser, director of Slow Food USA, give a talk on the Slow Food movement in America. Lesser spoke pretty generally about Slow Food USA's goals, philosophy, and achievements. The talk was interesting in itself, but there were two aspects that I found particularly significant: Lesser made some very interesting connections between Slow F ...
Topics: food, green living, slow food (all these topics)

Say it ain't so, Mario A great chef pimps his name for industrial food	Tom Philpott	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Mario Batali is a great chef and restaurateur. I've never had the chance to eat at his celebrated restaurants Babbo and Del Posto, but I have eaten several times at Otto, his relatively modest pizza joint in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. The food there is very, very good. (Try the gelato -- especially the incredibly delicate olive oil one. Or go with affogato -- a scoop of vanilla gelato 'drowned' in a shot of espresso.) I've also cooked from his cookbooks. Like all g ...
Topics: food, green living, recipes (all these topics)

Hot planet, poison fish This one will hit harder in the global south	Tom Philpott	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Climate change is affecting the oceans in any number of unpredictable ways. For example, under pressure from rising ocean temperatures (and toxic waste), coral reefs -- those glorious engines of biodiversity -- are degrading. I knew that. But this one was new to me: They also become breeding grounds for poisonous algae. And that poison accumulates in the big fish that eat the little fish that eat the algae -- making coral-dwelling fish toxic and sometimes even deadly ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, oceans (all these topics)

Between a Rocky and a chainstore SLC mayor at it again	Kate Sheppard	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Have we mentioned how cool Rocky Anderson is? The Salt Lake City Council is pondering a resolution to keep chain stores with "cookie-cutter architecture" out of neighborhood business districts. Mayor Rocky and his staff are pushing them to take it step futher and keep chain stores out, period. "I don't care what kind of facade Starbucks has; we ought to be promoting more local businesses rather than category killers and big boxes," he told the ...
Topics: food, green living, politics, shopping, Utah (all these topics)

Green consumerism: Getting the rat poison out of the baby food So to speak	Gar Lipow	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill
No, as far as I know, no baby-food maker ever used rat poison as an ingredient. The point is that we don't have to worry about it; if you have an infant switching off milk, you can shop the baby food counter confident that none of the choices will contain rat poison. However, as a consumer, buying 'green' is not quite so easy. Hastening the end of our civilization is a routine ingredient in most of the things we buy. By spending a little extra time and money, we can some ...
Topics: food, green living, green products, health (all these topics)

A moment for remembering Ransom Myers Fisheries biologist's work revealed extent of loss of oceanic fishes	Robert Delfs	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill
From the Washington Post: Ransom A. Myers, 54, the world-renowned fisheries biologist whose research showed that the number of large fish in the world's oceans has dropped by 90 percent in the past 50 years, died of a brain tumor March 27 at a hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The journal Science has just published a major paper co-written by Dr. Myers, 'Cascading Effects of the Loss of Apex Predatory Sharks from a Coastal Ocean,' about the importance of sharks in ...
Topics: fishing, food (all these topics)

'Tis the season (to celebrate our ties to the earth) A sampling of recipes for Passover	Roz Cummins	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Over the next few weeks, I will be writing about meals that express our connection to and appreciation for the earth. In keeping with this theme, I'll start with Marge Piercy's new book, Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own. My interest in seders (the meal served at Passover) started when I was in high school and worked as a 'hostess helper' for families who were hosting seders. Having been raised Catholic, I had never experienced a seder befo ...
Topics: food, green living, holiday, recipes (all these topics)

Equal opportunity organic Sustainable food meets social justice	Stephanie Paige Ogburn	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Grassroots organic is alive and well, even in the concrete jungles of New Haven and Boston. Today I spent an hour and a half at a talk called 'Food Policy: Addressing Social Justice in the Sustainable and Local Food Movements.' The event's keynote speakers were two women who work for urban sustainable food initiatives. One of the organizations, CitySeed, is located in New Haven, Conn. At the talk, CitySeed's executive director, Jennifer McTiernan, spoke about ...
Topics: environmental justice, food, green living, organic food, politics (all these topics)

Also amusing	David Roberts	29 Mar 2007	Gristmill
The Daily Show on cloned meat:
Topics: agriculture, food, funnies, GMOs (all these topics)

BBC on 'feeding the world' The perils of cooking with greenhouse gas.	Tom Philpott	29 Mar 2007	Gristmill
The BBC has issued a pretty clear-eyed report on food production and climate change, the podcast of which you can download here. The report makes no brief for sustainable ag, but it does cogently question industrial ag's ability to 'feed the world' as climate change saps water tables and population continues to grow.
Topics: agriculture, climate, food, industrial ag, sustainable ag (all these topics)

More beef = fewer babies? Growth promoters in beef may damage sperm	Julia Olmstead	29 Mar 2007	Gristmill
As reported by the BBC, a University of Rochester study found recently that men whose mothers ate lots of beef during their pregnancies had lower sperm counts than the sons of women who ate little or no beef while pregnant: Among sons of mothers who ate a lot of beef, 17.7 percent had a sperm concentration below the World Health Organization sub-fertility threshold of 20 million sperm per millilitre of seminal fluid. The figure for the sons of lower beef consumers ...
Topics: agriculture, food, green living, health (all these topics)

Punishment for gluttons? Rising costs affect consumers	Clark Williams-Derry	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
One of the side effects of the rapid increase in ethanol consumption in the U.S. is that corn -- the main feedstock for ethanol -- has gotten much more expensive. Just take a look at the futures markets: the July 2007 corn contract started climbing last fall, which was about the time people started to realize just how quickly demand for corn-based ethanol was growing. Obviously, rising costs trickle down to consumers in all sorts of ways. If corn prices st ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, energy, ethanol, food, green living, health (all these topics)

Food or fuel? Biofuels force the choice on us	Adam Browning	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Lester Brown says the diversion is already happening: If you think you are spending more each week at the supermarket, you may be right. The escalating share of the U.S. grain harvest going to ethanol distilleries is driving up food prices worldwide. Corn prices have doubled over the last year, wheat futures are trading at their highest level in 10 years, and rice prices are rising too. In addition, soybean futures have risen by half. A Bloomberg analysis not ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, food, Lester Brown (all these topics)

Appropriate technology?	Roz Cummins	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Here's an interesting article about a rabbi who converted a bus into a wood-fired matzo bakery ...
Topics: food, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Burger King jumps on the humane bandwagon Cage-free Croissan'wich, anyone?	Jason D Scorse	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
This has been a big week for animal-welfare advocates, as BK now commits to buying eggs and pork from animals that have not been raised in cages. There are big environmental impacts here as well, although I'm still trying to sift through them.
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, food, green living (all these topics)

In India, bullets fly as farms succumb to chemical factories A 'Maoist insurgency' in a global information-technology hub?	Tom Philpott	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Did you know that India, hub of the global information economy and destination of untold numbers of outsourced U.S. jobs, is in the grips of a Maoist insurgency? A recent Reuters article referred (a bit casually) to: the Maoist insurgency that has spread to about half of India's 29 states and has been described by Prime Minister Singh as the country's biggest internal security challenge since independence in 1947. Whoa! And what's the root cause? It turns out t ...
Topics: agriculture, food, India (all these topics)

Is humane meat better for the environment?	Jason D Scorse	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
According to this NYT article, one of the country's biggest restaurant moguls has decided that he will only sell humanely treated animals in all of his restaurants. This is, in one sense, a great victory. But I fear that there may be unintended consequences. Humane meat is likely to be nearly as environmentally intensive and inefficient as factory-farm raised meat (requiring much more water, energy, and producing much more CO2 than plant food) so by convincing the ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, food, green living, sustainable ag (all these topics)

'Tis the Season (for earth and wallet-friendly beans) Beans, beans, good for your recipe	Roz Cummins	24 Mar 2007	Gristmill
In keeping with the recent topics of eating low on the food chain for environmental reasons (e.g., beans instead of meat) and cooking for a crowd, I dug out an old recipe for a curried red lentil soup with an apple cider or pear juice base, so I could double it to serve 10-12 people instead of 5-6. I've always been told that to double a recipe, you should double the basic ingredients but not the spices. What I do is adjust the spices by slowly adding small increments ...
Topics: food, green living, recipes (all these topics)

Playing with food Er, food data that is	Clark Williams-Derry	23 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I'm not much of a gourmand, but I do love to play with food. Well, food data, anyway. So when I happened upon the Food System Factoids blog, I totally pigged out. The menu may not be for everyone, but if you have a craving for analyses of food pricing trends, or evaluations of carbon emissions from U.S. agriculture, you'll find plenty to satisfy. Take, for instance, this post on the relative change in prices of soft drinks and processed fats vs. fruits an ...
Topics: food, green living, health (all these topics)

Rethinking the bottom line Bill McKibben questions thinking as usual when it comes to climate.	Anna Fahey	21 Mar 2007	Gristmill
The old thinking, as author and thinker Bill McKibben explains in today's LA Times, goes like this: bigger is always better, growth is good no matter what, and a booming stock market is the ultimate measure of our success. McKibben illustrates the kind of lopsided priorities that naturally flow when we're ruled by the bottom line, pointing to a scarcely-reported White House report that said the U.S. would be pumping out almost 20 percent more greenhous ...
Topics: agriculture, Bill McKibben, farmers markets, food, green living, health, local food (all these topics)

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