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One expensive cocktail The toll of the shrimping industry on Southeast Asia	Erik Hoffner	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Southeast Asia would have fared better during the tsunami and the recent cyclone if the majority of the region's coastal mangrove forests were intact. Everyone accepts that. But many of the mangroves have been cut for firewood, largely to make way for shrimp farming. The cost of the mangrove-loss to coastal fisheries is great, since much of the food chain spends its early years amongst the trees' roots. But the human cost, besides those lost in the flood waters, is al ...
Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, fishing, food, severe weather (all these topics)

Notable quotable Vegan food ain't Badu	Sarah van Schagen	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.' -- Erykah Badu, in the recentest issue of VegNews
Topics: celebrity, food, music, quotables, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Flood money Midwest woes a boon to fertilizer companies	Tom Philpott	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The recent Midwestern floods have caused all manner of misery: Burst levies, lost homes, ruined crops, higher food prices, a gusher of agrichemicals and god know what else flowing into streams. One way to soothe the sting is to own shares in giant fertilizer companies like Potash Corp. of Saskatewan and Mosaic. These companies have seen their share prices jump over the past week. Investors may be bidding them up because the floods represent a sales opportunity. To ma ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, food, industrial ag, severe weather (all these topics)

Brown is the New Green Food Network star Alton Brown adds a pinch of sustainability to the pot	Roz Cummins	19 Jun 2008	'Tis the Season
Alton Brown: Boy meets salmon. Photo: Studio Chambers The Portola Café and Restaurant, the fine-dining venue within the Monterey Bay Aquarium, is an airy, light-filled space surrounded by windows on three sides. The soothing, understated interior showcases a breathtaking view of Monterey Bay, where one can watch otters wrap themselves in kelp while cormorants swim and dive ne ...
Topics: celebrity, food, green living, interview, oceans, recipes, Tis the Season (all these topics)

Rotten tomatoes Latest health scare exposes a frayed food-safety net	Guest author	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Meredith Niles, coordinator of the Cool Foods campaign at the Center for Food Safety. Salmonella-infected tomatoes have made headlines over the course of the last week, but there's nothing new about the problem that tainted tomatoes reveal.This outbreak has put more than 25 people in the hospital and sickened hundreds, but it is just the latest in a long line of sickness and recalls. Salmonella in tomatoes, spinach, and lettuce, eColi in ...
Topics: food, Food and Drug Administration, green living, Health (all these topics)

Any Way You Slice It Corn utensils not helpful without widespread public composting		18 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:47 PM on 18 Jun 2008 As an alternative to non-recyclable plastic and Styrofoam, some restaurants have begun offering corn-starch-based utensils and takeout containers. But does cornware really provide a guilt-free way to eat your vegesustainorganaturalocal meal? Though touted as compostable, corn-based utensils can't just be thrown into your garden; they don't biodegrade unless professionally compost ...
Topics: food, green living, news (all these topics)

Oprah off the meat-free wagon The all-powerful talk-show host ends her vegan cleanse	Sarah van Schagen	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Well, Oprah is no longer a caffeine-free, sugar-free, gluten-free vegan. She says her '21-day cleanse' has been 'enlightening.' I will forever be a more cautious and conscious eater. That's my commitment for now. To stay awakened. Hopefully along the way she's also enlightened some of her million-bajillion faithful followers.
Topics: celebrity, food, green living, health, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Ich Infect Dich Icky disease afflicting Alaskan salmon		16 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:54 PM on 16 Jun 2008 Alaska's prized wild salmon are suffering from a disease that scientists suspect of being boosted by -- you guessed it -- global warming. The emergence of Ichthyophonus as a threat to king salmon has coincided with a steady warming of Yukon River water over the past few decades, which scientists say has welcomed cold-averse parasites northward. "Climate change isn't going to increase infectious diseases ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news (all these topics)

Minimizing meat The great Mark Bittman on how to push meat off the center of the plate	Tom Philpott	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I'm no vegan. I believe that the only truly sustainable agriculture involves raising crops along with animals. I also adore the globe's cooking traditions, most of which involve integrating meat and/or dairy products with vegetables, grains, and spices.And yet, I'm appalled by this fact, from the USDA: In 2005, total meat consumption (red meat, poultry, and fish) amounted to 200 pounds per person, 22 pounds above the level in 1970. Two hundred pounds per year work ...
Topics: ecological footprint, food, health, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Our Ruined Harvest As corn and soy fields drown in rainwater, the food crisis deepens	Tom Philpott	13 Jun 2008	Victual Reality
A cornucopia of bad circumstances. Here in the United States, we grow 44 percent of the world's corn crop, and 38 percent of its soy. For the great bulk of that massive harvest, we rely on a single region: the Midwestern farm belt. And over the past couple of weeks, torrential rains have hammered that area, at a particularly sensitive time for its grand swath of corn and soybean pla ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, food, green living, severe weather, shopping, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Brooklyn's hopeful gardeners Low-income nabes lead the way in urban farming	Emily Gertz	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The Garden of Hope -- the new community green space I covered this week on Grist -- is just one facet of Brooklyn's community gardening scene. While writing this story I spoke with Susan Fields of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's GreenBridge program, which reaches out to neighborhoods all over Brooklyn to encourage and to support many levels of gardening -- from the 'Greenest Block in Brooklyn' contest all the way to the Urban Composting Project. 'There's a growing focus ...
Topics: farmers markets, food, gardening, local food, New York City (all these topics)

Humble Pie As storms rage on the prairie, strawberries and rhubarb bring comfort	Kurt Michael Friese	12 Jun 2008	Chef's Diary
A bright spot in the storm. Gaia has been hard on us prairie-dwellers lately. A dear friend who's the director of the area's largest CSA lost her 102-year-old barn to a storm this weekend. Swelled with recent rains, the Iowa River has been raging, sloshing toward levels never seen before. Fortunately, my restaurant sits on high ground, so if the floods reach us here, you'll see ...
Topics: food, green living, recipes, severe weather (all these topics)

Attack of the killer tomatoes, national edition Tomato salmonella scare hits the big time	Tom Philpott	11 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Insert everything I said in this post, except now the salmonella-tainted tomato scare has gone nationwide, whereas before, the FDA had been limiting its warning to Texas and New Mexico.Here is Associated Press: Federal officials hunted for the source of a salmonella outbreak in Connecticut and 16 other states linked to three types of raw tomatoes, while the list of supermarkets and restaurants yanking those varieties from shelves and menus grew. Meanwhile, ...
Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, messaging, organic food (all these topics)

Cuba's urban-ag miracle The U.S. media discover how food production works without access to cheap oil	Tom Philpott	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The story is legendary in peak-oil circles: Twenty years ago, the Soviet Union pulled the plug on Cuba's cheap-energy, cheap-food era. (See Bill McKibben's feature piece on the subject here.) No longer would the fading superpower accept the tiny island nation's sugar as payment for crude oil. From then on, only hard currency would do. It also halted food aid. In short order, gas and food prices spiked and people's living standards tumbled. Next, a widespread s ...
Topics: agriculture, Cuba, food, industrial ag, organic food (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: Filthy swine U.S. officials dither while antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains creep into our pork supply	Tom Philpott	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat and livestock industries.The good news is that people are earnestly trying to figure out if a deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria strain is infecting our nation's vast supply of pork.The bad news is, they don't work for a government regulator with the power to do something about it. Rather, they're university researchers and journalists, whose only real power is the public outrage they can generate through th ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, Food and Drug Administration, health, industrial ag (all these topics)

Seasoned in the Sun One mother's tips for managing summer eco-dilemmas	Lou Bendrick	09 Jun 2008	Grist Feature
It's painful for you both, but still better than a day inside with SpongeBob. Photo: Tom Twigg When the last school bell rings and summer gets into full swing, we modern parents simply can't do as the previous generation did: turn our kids loose onto the chemically manicured neighborhood lawns for unsupervised games of kick-the-can, calling them inside only for the occasional application of Solarca ...
Topics: advice, food, green living, parenting (all these topics)

Garden variety Why mow the grass when you can harvest salad greens?	Tom Philpott	06 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Lawn grass is the largest irrigated U.S. crop. 'Even conservatively,' notes NASA researcher Cristina Milesi, 'I estimate there are three times more acres of lawns in the U.S. than irrigated corn.' Wow, that's a lot of ornamental grass -- about 128,000 square kilometers worth, roughly equal in size to the state of Wisconsin. According Milesi, keeping all of that grass green requires about 200 gallons of fresh, typically drinking-quality water per person per day. (Inter ...
Topics: Chicago, food, gardening, local food (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)

Attack of the killer tomatoes! FDA warns of salmonella-infected tomatoes in the Southwest	Tom Philpott	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
What's next, tainted buns? In yet another blow to the burger, tomatoes have joined beef and lettuce as star players in that booming industrial-food genre, the disease-outbreak drama. This one involves tomatoes that carry what the FDA calls 'an uncommon strain' of salmonella called Saintpaul. Some 57 people have come down with salmonellosis in New Mexico and Texas, involving 17 hospitalizations, and the FDA is investigating salmonellosis cases in Arizona, Col ...
Topics: food, Food and Drug Administration, health, industrial ag, New Mexico, Texas (all these topics)

Feeding climate change Still more reasons to eat local and lay off the beef	Clark Williams-Derry	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Elizabeth Thomsen via Flickr. Increasingly, consumers are trying to reduce the environmental impacts of the foods they eat. But it's not so easy to know what to do, in part because of the bewildering array of food choices the market offers, but also because it's hard to know what food choices carry the biggest impact. This nifty study tries to clear away some of the murk by tackling a fairly straightforward question: If you care about the climat ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, food, local food, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

I Know What You Did Last Summit U.N. food summit ends without agreement on solutions		05 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:14 PM on 05 Jun 2008 A high-level three-day United Nations food summit ended Thursday without wide agreement on solutions to the world food crisis. At the meeting, delegates sparred over trade barriers, biofuels' role in keeping food prices high, agricultural subsidies, how food aid should be spent, and how much aid to give. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened the conference by declaring that ...
Topics: agriculture, food, international politics, news, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Red, White, and Green A primer on organic wines, and a sweet way to bring them to the table	Roz Cummins	05 Jun 2008	'Tis the Season
Psst! Organic wine doesn't suck. About 15 years ago, a friend brought an organic wine to a dinner party I was giving. He explained to me that in addition to being made from grapes that are grown organically, organic wines don't contain any added sulfites (some sulfites occur naturally as a result of the fermentation process). Since I try hard to use organic products as much as I ...
Topics: food, green living, recipes, Tis the Season (all these topics)

The farm bill: what went wrong Michael Pollan calls for crafting a viable alternative for next time	Guest author	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto and The Omnivore's Dilemma. ----- Michael Pollan. After many, many months of wrangling, Congress recently passed a farm bill, overriding a veto by the president. In my view, it is not a very good bill -- it preserves more or less intact the whole structure of subsidies responsible for so much that is wrong in the American food system. On the other hand, it does co ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, legislation (all these topics)

Old MacDonald had a farm bill The good, bad, and ugly in our national five-year agricultural plan	Guest author	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post from Debra Eschmeyer, marketing and media manager of the National Farm to School Network and the Center for Food & Justice. She works from a fifth-generation family farm in Ohio, where she continues her passion for organic farming by raising heirloom fruits, vegetables, and chickens. ----- We've all noticed higher grocery bills, but did you know Congress passed a $307 billion farm bill in late May that has a much bigger impact on what you ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, GMOs, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Oysters Like It Moister Despite efforts, Chesapeake Bay oysters still struggling		02 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:04 PM on 02 Jun 2008 State and federal officials have spent $58 million since 1994 trying to make Chesapeake Bay a welcoming place for oysters -- and it all seems to have been for naught. There are less bivalves in the bay now than there were in the mid-'90s, and the Maryland and Virginia oyster industries have declined in turn. Officials say they're up against numerous factors, including disease that w ...
Topics: aquaculture, food, Maryland, news, Virginia (all these topics)

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