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Quite a Pear		29 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Quite a Pear There have been wars fought over oil and opium, spices and sugarcane -- and now it seems there is a war brewing in Washington state over pears. The battle was touched off when the Seattle-based Washington Environmental Council sent a letter to an irrigation district in the eastern part of the state threatening legal actions if the district didn't stop diverting so much water to or ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, Northwest, water conflicts (all these topics)

More Than Meats the Eye		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
More Than Meats the Eye In the last two decades, there's been a national growth spurt in super-sized animal feedlots and slaughterhouses. That spurt has outpaced the ability of regulators to keep such places operating safely and cleanly -- and that has led to polluted water bodies, food safety scares, and on-the-job injuries, according to a ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Catch As Quechua Can		09 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Catch As Quechua Can Until recently, there were only two roads out of poverty for Ecuador's Quechua people: cutting down the rainforest (thereby destroying habitat and soil fertility alike) or trading with warring factions in neighboring Colombia (thereby opening the door for that country's violence to spread into Ecuador). Now there is a third, far better option: the Callari project, a marketing cooper ...
Topics: business, Ecuador, food and agriculture, population (all these topics)

Onion Jack		29 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Onion Jack Times are so bad for organic farmers in the United Kingdom that the whole market for organic foods could collapse, according to research published today by the National Farmers Union. According to the data, one in three organic farms in Great Britain is losing money. If there is hope, it lies in the Organic Action Plan for England, a national effort to improve the market for organically grown goods that was a ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Look for the Onion Label?		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Look for the Onion Label? It's not quite like a pie in the face or mashed potatoes on the cafeteria ceiling, but Oregonians can still expect a food fight come November. The state seems poised to be the first in the nation to vote on a labeling law for genetically modified foods, now that the backers of the initiative, Oregon Concerned Citizens for Safe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, GMOs, Oregon, political groups, politics (all these topics)

The Kingsolver and I A review of Small Wonder	Jonna Higgins-Freese	16 Jul 2002	Arts and Minds
Several friends of mine, all of them environmentalists, have told me they picked up Small Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver's most recent collection of essays, but speedily put it down because the book just didn't pull them in. At first, I had the same reaction. And then I realized: small wonder. This book wasn't written for environmentalists. Yet because of Kingsolver's fame and her ability to talk about complex issues i ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living (all these topics)

Dry Upheaval		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dry Upheaval As if Colombia needs any more bad news: The war-torn nation's water supply could be reduced by as much as 40 percent over the next 50 years due to deforestation and other degradation of fragile high mountain ecosystems, according to Carlos Castano, director of the country's Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies. The pa ...
Topics: Colombia, deforestation, food and agriculture, green living, toxics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Swiss Bliss		31 May 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: food and agriculture Swiss Bliss Organic farming results in a smaller yield than conventional agriculture, but is far more energy efficient and better for the land. That might sound intuitive to many organic advocates, but it took a 21-year study by Swiss scientists to prove it. Research published in the most recent issue of Science showed that organic farming is a viable alternative to conventional methods -- i.e., those that are heavily reliant on pesticides and other chemical ...
Topics: food and agriculture (all these topics)

Metals in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands?		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Metals in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands? The American Environmental Safety Institute (first we've heard of it) sued Nestle, Hershey, Mars, and other chocolate manufacturers yesterday for not disclosing that their products contain toxic metals such as lead and cadmium, as required under California law. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the group sa ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Toxics: Australian for Fertilizer		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Toxics: Australian for Fertilizer Businesses across Australia are legally disposing of their industrial waste by selling it as fertilizers for farms and home gardens, according to an investigative report by the Sydney Morning Herald. The fertilizers often contain such toxic metals as arsenic, mercury, chromium, and lead. In western Australia, radioactive mat ...
Topics: Australia, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

The Big O		08 May 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: food and agriculture The Big O Consumers of organic produce, take a moment to feel good about yourselves: A study published today shows that organically grown foods contain a fraction of the pesticides found in conventionally grown foods. Organic foods were less likely than their conventional counterparts to have any pesticide residues; what residues they did have were from fewer sources and at lower levels. On average, the study found, organics contain only a third as many pest ...
Topics: food and agriculture (all these topics)

Greener Pastures		07 May 2002	Daily Grist
Greener Pastures New Zealand is home to a staggering 45 million sheep and 8 million cattle, which together produce 90 percent of the country's methane emissions -- or about 43 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions. To meet the terms of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, New Zealand has to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels -- but legislation proposed by the governmen ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, food and agriculture, New Zealand (all these topics)

No Farm, No Foul On farmed fish	Umbra Fisk	23 Apr 2002	Ask Umbra
I have a friend who is a homeopathic. She told me that I should stop eating pen-raised salmon because they are fed a lot of antibiotics. I was very disappointed because I thought I was eating a safe product. I don't know how to get more info about this, but if you guys know anything about it, I'm sure a lot of us would appreciate it. Claudia Dearest Claudia, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that your question is ...
Topics: advice, aquaculture, Ask Umbra, fishing, food, food and agriculture, water pollution (all these topics)

Rio Pequeno		19 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Rio Pequeno The Rio Grande no longer reaches the sea. In fact, it falls almost a hundred yards short, a telling illustration of the water crisis that threatens the river and the cross-border region that depends on it for survival. Years of drought and a population explosion on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border have stra ...
Topics: Colorado River, food and agriculture, Mexico, population, Rio Grande River, rivers and watersheds, United States, water conflicts (all these topics)

Supremely Bad Judgement		12 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Supremely Bad Judgement The Florida Supreme Court dealt a blow to environmentalists and landowners yesterday by ruling that property owners in the state must continue to foot most of the bill for Everglades restoration, despite overwhelming support for a 1996 amendment to the state constitution that would have made polluters pay instead. The court determined that the ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, food and agriculture, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Information Underload		05 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Information Underload So much for the information age: Some U.S. lawmakers are trying to limit access to data on the federal government's farm subsidy program. Last fall, the nonprofit Environmental Working Group touched off a political firestorm by posting on the Internet a database of farm subsidy recipients from 1996 to 2000. Information on the site was used by sena ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, Environmental Working Group, food and agriculture, politics (all these topics)

Sushi and the Banshees		04 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sushi and the Banshees Japan's languishing organic food market could get a major boost from a string of recent food scandals that have rocked the nation. The scandals include an outbreak of mad cow disease and allegations of government mishandling of the crisis; the discovery of traces of prohibited biotech corn in domestic food and animal feed; and a massive outbreak of food poisoning that affected 10,000 people and was traced ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Japan (all these topics)

Bananarama		11 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
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Topics: food and agriculture (all these topics)

Bananarama Price tags don't tell the full story	Elizabeth Sawin	11 Mar 2002	Global Citizen
I have a young friend who, I think, will never eat another banana without thinking a great deal about its history. Going bananas. On a trip to Belize, Hannah and other home-schooled teenagers saw monkeys, the rainforest, and Mayan villages. But the memory that seems to stand out most vividly is of a banana plantation. The workers at the plantation Hannah visited do not wear protective clothing. When planes fly overhea ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Shrimp Fried		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Shrimp Fried Under pressure from the Bush administration, a federal judge yesterday revoked the protected status of several hundred thousand acres of Southern California land considered essential for the survival of two imperiled species. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-a ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, food and agriculture, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Bay Watch		22 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bay Watch If three environmental groups have their way, California's mammoth agriculture industry will be subject to state water-pollution laws for the first time in history. The three groups (San Francisco BayKeeper, DeltaKeeper, and the California Public Interest Research Group) filed suit yesterday against the Central Valley Regional Water Cont ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Mickey Mao's		22 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Mickey Mao's It might be the Magic Kingdom, but sometimes it has to face reality: That's the message of an environmental study released today on a future Disney theme park in Hong Kong. Environmentalists have attacked the $1.8 billion project as an ecological nightmare, and now the report seconds the opinion. The park is slated to be built in Penny's B ...
Topics: Asia, business, food and agriculture, Hong Kong, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Going Whole Hog for Conservation		14 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Going Whole Hog for Conservation In welcome news for environmentalists, the U.S. Senate approved a farm bill yesterday that would double spending for conservation programs to $22 billion over the next decade. If it becomes law, the farm bill -- which also includes provisions to clean up urban drinking water, protect forests from urban sprawl, and conserve wildlife habitat -- would ...
Topics: air pollution, food and agriculture, placemaking, population, wilderness (all these topics)

Kenya Opener		08 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Kenya Opener Even though Kenya is a major food exporter, it hasn't reaped much benefit from the $20 billion-per-year global market in organic foods. Now some farmers and nonprofits in the African nation are trying to change that. Many Kenyans already grow their crops without chemical inputs, but up till now, not a single one has been certified as an organic ...
Topics: Africa, commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, globalization, GMOs, Kenya (all these topics)

Readers' Rare Bits		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, food and agriculture, rainforests, US EPA (all these topics)

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