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Seasick		23 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Seasick Once the fourth largest inland sea in the world, Central Asia's Aral Sea is drying up rapidly and is likely to all but disappear in as few as 15 years, according to a new study by Moscow's Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. Since the 1960s, the sea has been depleted by the damming of the main rivers that feed it; it is now just a quarter of the size it was a half-century ago and has broken into two parts, the No ...
Topics: Aral Sea, Asia, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Crop Circles		23 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Circles A much-anticipated review by the British government of genetically modified (GM) crops has found that they are safe to consume but pose a serious threat to the environment. The 300-page report, produced by a panel of 24 scientists and policy advisors, is by far the most exhaustive study of GM crops to date. To the relief of GM advocates, it found that transgenic food products do n ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Chef's Salud		23 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chef's Salud Across the Atlantic, another fracas is brewing over genetically modified foods. Yesterday protesters hit the streets in Sacramento, Calif., to rally against GM technology, one day before the start of a large international agricultural conference that is bringing together agriculture ministers from more than 100 countries and reps from biotechnology and agribusiness corporations. Family farmers, chefs, an ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

The Eat Generation		05 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: business, food and agriculture, health (all these topics)

The Eat Generation A review of Safe Food and The Pleasures of Slow Food	Ali Macalady	05 Jun 2003	Arts and Minds
In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation -- an expose of America's increasingly consolidated and industrialized food system, and how that system contributes to a whole range of societal ills, from obesity and resistance to antibiotics to urban sprawl, habitat destruction, and poor labor conditions. The book was a smashing success -- 66 weeks and running on the New York Times bestseller l ...
Topics: food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

All Together Now Community and sustainability go hand in hand	Elizabeth Sawin	27 May 2003	Soapbox
Some years ago, I was part of a group that set out to create a community where we could work toward living with less impact on the environment. One of the first steps we took was to write down a list of principles to guide us as we worked to turn our vision into reality. At the top of the list were "community" and "sustainability." (The others, if you're curious, were "unity,&quo ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, Vermont (all these topics)

All Together Now		27 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: food and agriculture, green living, placemaking, Vermont (all these topics)

Greener Curry		23 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: California, education, food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Break Out the Tofu Dogs		23 May 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: food and agriculture Break Out the Tofu Dogs The Grist staff will be donning our whitest whites and barbequing veggie delicacies on Monday in honor of Memorial Day, so don't expect your next batch of green news until Tuesday. Have a lovely holiday!
Topics: food and agriculture (all these topics)

Seedy		19 May 2003	Daily Grist
Seedy Members of Brazil's Landless Peasant Movement occupied a test farm owned by biotechnology giant Monsanto last week, in a bid to expel the company and establish an organic farm on the site instead. The protestors say neither the people nor the government of the Brazilian state of Parana support genetically modified (GM) crops, such as the transgenic soybeans an ...
Topics: Brazil, business, environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

40 Acres and a Tax Break		16 May 2003	Daily Grist
40 Acres and a Tax Break California environmentalists and farmers rejoiced yesterday when Gov. Gray Davis (D) restored $40 million in funding for farmland and open-space protection under the Williamson Act. Together, farmers and enviros had lobbied heavily against the proposed elimination of the act, under which the state pays back counties for property taxes lost when landowners are ...
Topics: business, California, food and agriculture, news, placemaking, sprawl (all these topics)

No Way, Solae! On engineered soy products	Umbra Fisk	15 May 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I don't know if you'll have time to answer this question, but while purchasing 8th Continent soymilk my husband noticed that there was Solae in it. After some research on the Internet, we discovered that Solae is made by DuPont and is a genetically engineered soybean, but we were unable to find anything negative about it. Do you know anything about Solae and if it is dangerous? Sincerely, Heather Anne Sacramento, ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, food and agriculture, GMOs, green living (all these topics)

Puff the Toxic Dragon On green reasons to quit smoking	Umbra Fisk	15 May 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I want to quit smoking. As if the risks to my health weren't enough, could you help out by twisting that knife of guilt into my tree-hugging heart and give me some environmental reasons to stop supporting the tobacco industry? Cough, wheeze, Elaine Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada Dearest Elaine, I don't care whether you smoke or not. In fact, I think anti-smoking hype is often thinly disguised clas ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, green living, health, toxics (all these topics)

Dairy Godmother On milk cartons	Umbra Fisk	15 May 2003	Ask Umbra
Hi Umbra, I don't know if the same thing has happened in the U.S, but here in Canada the milk industry has undergone a massive shift to using different containers. Once, you could get plastic jugs or cardboard cartons with fold-back lids or plastic bags. But now, the most commonly available container is a revised carton. It has a plastic spout, as if pouring with the other kind were too hard. Can you tell me which of the containers has th ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Have a Cow, Man		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
Have a Cow, Man The state of South Dakota is leading the nation in the Partners for Fish and Wildlife project, a federal conservation program designed to help farmers and ranchers reduce their negative impact on native prairie ecosystems. Conversion of wild grasslands to croplands is a major environmental problem in South Dakota and other prairies states. Under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife program, farmers and ra ...
Topics: food and agriculture, ranching, South Dakota (all these topics)

The Farmer and the Smell		06 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Farmer and the Smell The U.S. EPA could offer large industrial livestock farms amnesty from the federal Clean Air Act and Superfund laws, according to people involved in agency-industry talks. Rather than enforce the laws, the EPA would monitor pollution levels at roughly 30 large hog and chicken operations, a plan environmentalists and former enforcement officials say is far too lenient -- so lenie ...
Topics: air pollution, food and agriculture, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Look, Mom, No Tofu	Suzy Becker	05 May 2003	Ha.

Topics: food and agriculture (all these topics)

We Don't Cotton to This Idea		05 May 2003	Daily Grist
We Don't Cotton to This Idea Farmers in India are harvesting the nation's first approved biotech cotton crop, a development that has environmentalists and some nationalists nervous. About 55,000 growers, an estimated 2 percent of India's cotton farmers, have planted Monsanto's Bollgard cotton seed, genetically engineered with the Bt bacterium to be resistant to the bollworm, a troublesome cotton pest. The crop should allo ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, India (all these topics)

High and Dry Colorado's proposed water projects could sink the environment	Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range	29 Apr 2003	Main Dish
This March, the Denver Broncos football team agreed to spend $40 million on a seven-year contract with its new quarterback, Jake Plummer. Since winning two Super Bowls at the end of the 1990s, the Broncos have struggled just to make the playoffs. At his introductory press conference, Plummer predicted, "Winning a Super Bowl is what I believe we are going to do here.& ...
Topics: business, Colorado, Colorado River, food and agriculture, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

A Bunch of Pinkos		24 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
A Bunch of Pinkos Angry consumers have taken three huge supermarket chains to court for failing to give customers the skinny on the salmon sold at the fish counter. Albertsons, Safeway, and Kroger (which owns QFC and Fred Meyer) are accused of deception, unfair business practices, breach of warranty, and negligent misrepresentation for failing to accurately label farm-raised salmon that were fed artificial nutrients. At issue ...
Topics: fishing, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Who're You Calling Chicken? Starting from scratch with chickens and eggs	The Green Guide	18 Apr 2003	Earthly Possessions
Chicks and balances. Photo: USDA. It's very provoking, as Humpty Dumpty once told Alice, to be called an egg. After all, a name must mean something. "My name," he told her, "means the shape I am -- and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost." The same could be said of many labels for poultry and eggs. After all, "cage- ...
Topics: food and agriculture (all these topics)

Dam Shamer		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: dams, energy, European Union, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, Spain, wetlands (all these topics)

Aroma, but No Therapy		15 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Aroma, but No Therapy You don't know smelly until you've been in the vicinity of a massive factory farm, or, as they say in the biz, a "concentrated animal-feeding operation." State and local air-quality officials fear that the stench and, more importantly, the accompanying air pollution from such facilities won't get under control anytime soon because the U.S. EPA ...
Topics: air pollution, food and agriculture, solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA (all these topics)

Sweet Tooth and Nail		03 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Tooth and Nail Efforts to restore Florida's Everglades hit a snag yesterday, when the state's top environmental regulator suggested delaying by 20 years the cleanup of phosphorus from South Florida waters. David Struhs, secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, had previously backed a plan to reduce the presence of phosphorus from a whopping 300 parts per billion to just 10 pp ...
Topics: Florida, food and agriculture, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Not in to It		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Not in to It Far-flung Greenland doesn't seem like it would be a danger zone for hazardous chemicals, but researchers from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program have documented "unacceptable levels" of environmental toxics in the nation's Inuit population. The toxics include persistent organic pollutants, lead, cadmium, mercury, and other hazardous chemicals that are carried by wind and ocean curren ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Greenland, toxics (all these topics)

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