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From Concentrate How food processing got into the hands of a few giant companies	Tom Philpott	26 Apr 2007	Victual Reality
Two years ago, dairy giant Dean Foods shuttered a milk-processing facility in Wilkesboro, a town at the eastern edge of North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains. Photo: iStockphoto Dean processes 35 percent of the fluid milk in the U.S. and Canada -- roughly equal to the combined market share of its three biggest rivals combined. In my area of western North Carolina, it processes 100 percen ...
Topics: food and agriculture, industrial ag, North Carolina, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Thought for Food Earth Dinners keep cuisine and conversation flowing	Roz Cummins	19 Apr 2007	'Tis the Season
This is the third installment in a series about connecting with friends and family over specific meals; the first was an introduction to dining co-ops, the second a celebration of Passover. At a recent dinner party, I pulled out my deck of Earth Dinner cards. The first one asked, "Who in your life really understands how to make the food you love?" Two raisin-hating men at the table tenderly ...
Topics: food and agriculture, recipes, slow food, Tis the Season (all these topics)

What About Excess Waist? To cut down waste, some Hong Kong restaurants charge for leftovers		19 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
What About Excess Waist? To cut down waste, some Hong Kong restaurants charge for leftovers Do you miss the good ol' days of childhood? The park, the play dates, the eat-everything-on-your-plate-or-else lectures? Well, we can't fit you on the child-size slide or bring back your pre-K paramour, but if you want to be chided for leaving leftovers, get ye to Hong Kong. In an effort to cut down on excess waste, som ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Hong Kong, news, waste (all these topics)

Grinding to a Halt Changes in USDA policy could hit organic coffee hard		09 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Grinding to a Halt Changes in USDA policy could hit organic coffee hard Hold onto your latte: News is seeping out about a change at the U.S. Department of Agriculture that could affect the cost and availability of organic products from developing countries, including bananas, spices, sugar, and coffee. Normally, a farm must undergo an annual inspection to get certified. But for years, co ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, news, organic food (all these topics)

Garden Variety Now's the time to discover the myriad pleasures of growing food	Tom Philpott	29 Mar 2007	Victual Reality
"A natural diet lies right at one's feet." -- Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution It's springtime here on my mountain farm, and that means an explosion of activity. We're starting seeds in one greenhouse, and finishing construction on another. Fields are being tilled, and we're putting in the very first sugar-snap peas and spring onions. We're depleting a pile of compost ...
Topics: food and agriculture, gardening, local food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Don't Make Me Pull This Cargill Over Amazon soy export plant shut down in win for environmentalists		28 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Don't Make Me Pull This Cargill Over Amazon soy export plant shut down in win for environmentalists Greens did a victory dance this weekend as Brazil forced U.S. agribiz giant Cargill to close a soy export terminal in the country's Amazon region. The facility has long been the focus of a targeted Greenpeace campaign protesting rapid deforestation of the tropical rainforest -- which lost about 6,5 ...
Topics: Amazon, Big Ag, deforestation, food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

I'm Hot, Sticky Sweet Vermont's maple-syrup industry braces for climate change		26 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
I'm Hot, Sticky Sweet Vermont's maple-syrup industry braces for climate change Will warmer winters stop the flow of Vermont maple syrup? That's the question of the day in the Green Mountain State, where folks worry that climate change will make the $200 million industry -- which provides 32 percent of U.S. syrup output -- dry up. "I've always been, 'Oh, global warming, I don't kno ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, food and agriculture, news, Vermont (all these topics)

Filling Their Sales If organic food is so popular, why are so few farms transitioning their land?	Tom Philpott	22 Mar 2007	Victual Reality
On a recent trip to Austin, I visited the flagship Whole Foods -- a vast space where people gather en masse to render financial sacrifice to that new god, organic food. From the depths of the parking lot, as you make your way up to the store, you're urged again and again by a sign that simply says, "Love where you shop." From the doe-eyed look of the supplicants ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, organic food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Cob Report Coalition of ranchers and farmers fights subsidies for corn ethanol		19 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Cob Report Coalition of ranchers and farmers fights subsidies for corn ethanol It's one thing when dirty hippies oppose your energy-independence scheme, but when ranchers, chicken farmers, and pork producers pile on the hate, that's trouble. An ad hoc coalition is opposing U.S. corn ethanol subsidies and pushing to end U.S. tariffs on Brazilian sugarcane ethanol. "This ...
Topics: ag subsidies, energy, ethanol, food and agriculture, grassroots activism, news (all these topics)

Turnip Out is Fair Play FDA issues voluntary produce-safety guidelines		16 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Turnip Out is Fair Play FDA issues voluntary produce-safety guidelines If you've shied away from spinach since last year's widespread E. coli outbreak, this should give you comfort: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued voluntary guidelines this week to help keep fresh-cut produce safe. What, the "voluntary" part gives you pause? Pshaw. Pointing out that voluntary guidelines for pro ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, news (all these topics)

Food and Punishment Colorado's inmates-as-farmworkers plan says plenty about our food culture	Tom Philpott	15 Mar 2007	Victual Reality
Last summer, the Colorado General Assembly passed some of the nation's most rigorous anti-immigrant policy laws. Debate was fierce -- but only because some GOP lawmakers fumed that the Democratic-engineered crackdown wasn't draconian enough. How times have changed. Essentially, the state's political elite -- backed editorially by The Denver Post -- took aim at its low-wage wo ...
Topics: ag policy, Colorado, food and agriculture, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Was It the Cowlick? U.S. federal judge bans sales, planting of genetically modified alfalfa		13 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Was It the Cowlick? U.S. federal judge bans sales, planting of genetically modified alfalfa A first-of-its-kind ruling in the U.S. will stop Monsanto's genetically modified alfalfa in its tracks -- for now. Citing the USDA's failure to conduct an environmental impact statement before approving the crop in 2005 and its "cavalier" response to concerns that the franken-falfa could contami ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, news (all these topics)

Dishing It Out My address to the Southern Appalachian Youth on Food conference	Tom Philpott	08 Mar 2007	Victual Reality
One crop to rule them all. Photo: USDA Tucked into the rolling hills of North Carolina's Swannanoa Valley, Warren Wilson College is essentially surrounded by a farm. The school's 800 students not only tend the 275-acre farm -- which includes pastured livestock and vegetables -- they also provide the labor to run the campus. They do everything from accounting to plumbing to cooking in the ca ...
Topics: food and agriculture, industrial ag, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Now If Only They'd Stop Serving Meat Restaurant biz hops onto the green bandwagon		08 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Now If Only They'd Stop Serving Meat Restaurant biz hops onto the green bandwagon Green ain't just the color of the broccoli anymore in the restaurant biz. And a good thing too: the average restaurant generates 50,000 pounds of waste (half of it food) and uses 300,000 gallons of water every year. Enter the Green Restaurant Association, which provides environmental assessments and "certifi ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, greening biz operations, news (all these topics)

Carry On My Wayward Gene Kansas could see first commercial crop of human-gene-containing rice		02 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Carry On My Wayward Gene Kansas could see first commercial crop of human-gene-containing rice A California company is one step closer to growing rice that contains human genes on a commercial scale. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given a preliminary OK to a plan to sow 450 Kansas acres with the stuff this spring, with 2,750 more acres to come. Ventria Bioscience's three Frankenr ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, Kansas, news (all these topics)

Fertile Ground Reviving a much-cited, little-read sustainable-ag masterpiece	Tom Philpott	01 Mar 2007	Victual Reality
The real Arsenal of Democracy is a fertile soil, the fresh produce of which is the birthright of nations. -- Sir Albert Howard, The Soil and Health Sir Albert Howard. Around 1900, a 27-year-old British scientist named Albert Howard, a specialist in plant diseases, arrived in Barbados, then a province of the British Empire. His charge was to find cutting-edge cures for diseases that attacked t ...
Topics: food and agriculture, sustainable ag, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Kenya Screw Me Now? African farmers fear impact of U.K. supermarkets buying local		22 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Kenya Screw Me Now? African farmers fear impact of U.K. supermarkets buying local Last month, British supermarket giant Tesco announced a few changes it's making with the climate in mind, including limiting flown-in food. Which is all well and good, unless you're a farmer in Africa wondering what the hell is going on. Some fear that moves in the industrial world meant to reduce the carbon footprint -- an ...
Topics: Africa, food and agriculture, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

The Way to a Manchester's Stomach New study says some organic food no better for the environment		20 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
The Way to a Manchester's Stomach New study says some organic food no better for the environment In case you weren't confused enough about your grocery shopping, a government-sponsored study in the U.K. has added a possible twist. It suggests that some organic foods may not be better for the environment than their conventional counterparts. While the 200-page study by the Manchester Business School found that man ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Chow Pain Faced with contaminated food, Chinese shoppers pony up for organics		13 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Chow Pain Faced with contaminated food, Chinese shoppers pony up for organics Got a hankering for lard made from sewage and industrial oil? Look no further than the mean streets of China's cities. Such "fake food," along with real food contaminated by pollution and pesticides, is showing up on shelves -- and turning the stomachs of urban denizens. As a result, according to state-conducted research, mo ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

You Put Your Seed in There Norway reveals design for 'doomsday' seed vault		09 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
You Put Your Seed in There Norway reveals design for "doomsday" seed vault Architecture geeks are salivating over Norway's release of the design of an agricultural "doomsday vault." The structure, which will cost $5 million to build and $125,000 a year to run, will hold seeds for the world's 1.5 million distinct crop varieties. You know, in case the guy who survives the apocalypse gets the nibbles. Li ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, Norway (all these topics)

Bob's Hope Pro skateboarder Bob Burnquist ramps up his green work	Sarah van Schagen	08 Feb 2007	Main Dish
Bob Burnquist at the X Games XI, where he took the gold medal for Skateboard Vert Best Trick. Photo: Jason Merritt/WireImage Bob Burnquist isn't afraid of taking risks. In fact, he's made a career out of it. The 30-year-old pro skateboarder is a 12-time medal-winner at the X Games, has developed and named a number of signature tricks, and last year launched himself off a ramp into the Grand Canyon ...
Topics: food and agriculture, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

The Airspeed Velocity of an Uneaten Swallow Food imported by air may lose organic certification in Britain		30 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
The Airspeed Velocity of an Uneaten Swallow Food imported by air may lose organic certification in Britain Foods imported into Britain by airplane may not qualify as organic if the country's main certification body has its druthers. On Friday, the Soil Association announced it will spend a year considering a proposal to factor flight distance into its organic standards. While it will ponder differen ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, placemaking, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Lettuce Eat Veggies An occasional meat-eater faces the brutal truth		30 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
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The River Dry David James Duncan rows through a wheat field to save salmon -- and we've got pictures	Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter	25 Jan 2007	Main Dish

Topics: dams, energy, fishing, food and agriculture, Washington (all these topics)

A Different Angle On eco-choices	Umbra Fisk	20 Dec 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, While I usually love your column, I have to take issue with encouraging people to eat sushi. This is the second "green" site I have seen that proposes the solution to overfishing is to eat different fish. Saying "of course you can continue to eat at sushi restaurants without feeling guilty" amounts to pandering to people who are concerned about environmental problems but are not willing to make meaningful ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, fishing, food and agriculture, oceans, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

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