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San Joaquin Phoenix Dead San Joaquin River will be revived		15 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
San Joaquin Phoenix Dead San Joaquin River will be revived More than 60 miles of California's dead, sandy San Joaquin River may yet run with water and salmon again, as enviros and farmers have settled an 18-year legal battle over the river's fate. Based on a new 20-year, $250-to-$800 million restoration plan, agricultural water diversion from the river will be reduced by an a ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Rattling the Food Chain A cornucopia of new books tells us where our food comes from	Tom Philpott	31 Aug 2006	Arts and Minds
One summer evening when I lived in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, I was snipping basil from the potted herb garden that I kept on the stoop in front of my brownstone apartment. Kids were playing on the sidewalk, their high-spirited shouts echoing through the dense, humid air. I absently popped a basil leaf in my mouth, savoring its flavor. You ate what? Photo: iStockphoto One kid took note. ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living (all these topics)

Like Blight on Rice U.S. commercial rice crop contaminated with GM strain		22 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Like Blight on Rice U.S. commercial rice crop contaminated with GM strain The U.S. government admitted last week that its commercial supply of long-grain rice has been contaminated by an illegal, untested, genetically modified strain with the warm-and-fuzzy name of LLRICE 601. The European Union, the biggest importer of U.S. long-grain rice, may decide to delay or ban imports; Japan ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, Japan, news, United States (all these topics)

Do the Hempty Hemp Hemp farming could be legalized in California		17 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Do the Hempty Hemp Hemp farming could be legalized in California Farmers could legally grow industrial hemp under a bill approved by the state Senate of, obviously, California. But isn't hemp, like, totally marijuana? Didn't Nancy Reagan warn us about this? No, no, says (Republican!) state Sen. Tom McClintock, in the best analogy we've ever heard: Hemp "bears no more resemblance to marijuana than a poodle bears ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

Won't You Be My Labor? Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage		14 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Won't You Be My Labor? Immigration crackdown exacerbates organic-farm labor shortage Organic farmers are desperately struggling to find workers, caught between rising demand and an ever-more-severe labor shortage. More than half of the 1.8 million farmworkers in the U.S. are here illegally, and increased border patrols have reduced the number of immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Service-s ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Mexico, news, United States (all these topics)

Words Fail Us Hummer propaganda aimed at kids through McDonald's Happy Meals		10 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Words Fail Us Hummer propaganda aimed at kids through McDonald's Happy Meals Sometimes a story comes along that so perfectly captures a culture's pathologies that it should be put in a time capsule, so future generations ... oh, right, there won't be any future generations. It seems that, according to fast-food behemoth McDonald's, this is a "Hummer of a Summer." A new series of TV and radio ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Us vs. Stem Workers on organic farms are treated as poorly as their conventional counterparts	Jason Mark	02 Aug 2006	Main Dish
When Elena Ortiz found a job on an organic raspberry farm after working for nine years in conventionally farmed fields, she was glad for the change. The best part about her new job was that she no longer had to work just feet away from tractors spraying chemical herbicides and pesticides. An added bonus was the fruit itself -- "prettier," she said, and firmer, which m ...
Topics: food and agriculture (all these topics)

Vegetarians Are Ruining the Planet Cargill pushes soy farming that's obliterating the Amazon		18 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Vegetarians Are Ruining the Planet Cargill pushes soy farming that's obliterating the Amazon Soy production has overtaken logging and cattle ranching as the main source of Amazon rainforest destruction. In the past three years, nearly 27,000 square miles of the Amazon have been destroyed, nearly three-quarters of it illegally. Much of the acreage was sold to soy producers, financed in large part by agribu ...
Topics: Amazon, deforestation, food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

Viva Las Vegan Sustainable and vegetarian cuisine is on show in Sin City	Cathy Huyghe	14 Jul 2006	Main Dish
Quick: Where can you eat vegan doughnuts for breakfast, vegetarian Chinese for lunch, and 13-bean soup for an afternoon snack? Hint: In the same city, you can feast on sustainable fish for dinner, prepared by one of the country's celebrity chefs, and Kind Apple Cobbler for dessert -- the "raw" version. New York? Maybe. Seattle? Probably. Las Vegas? Definitely. Surprised? The local ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Nevada (all these topics)

Aw, Shucks Ethanol ain't all it's cracked up to be, new study says		11 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Aw, Shucks Ethanol ain't all it's cracked up to be, new study says A new study casts serious doubt on ethanol's status as a green wonder-fuel. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers lay out a series of grim findings about corn-based biofuel. Runoff from large-scale corn cultivation contaminates waterways with nitrogen, phosphorus, and pesticides. As a motor fuel, corn-based ethanol g ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Outstripped Demand for organics outpacing local supply		10 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Outstripped Demand for organics outpacing local supply With demand for organic food soaring in the U.S. and U.K., manufacturers of organic products are struggling to find adequate supplies of organic ingredients and are increasingly looking and buying abroad. While exporters like Australia welcome the trend, it creates a dilemma for many organic enthusiasts, who also tend to support lo ...
Topics: Australia, food and agriculture, news, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Well Aisle Be Whole Foods unveils initiatives to boost local and compassionate farming		30 Jun 2006	Daily Grist

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

Olive Twist 'Climate-change farmer' plants England's first olive grove		27 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Olive Twist "Climate-change farmer" plants England's first olive grove Britain's first olive grove has been planted in Devon in southwestern England -- made possible by global warming. Traditionally an iconic crop of Mediterranean regions, the olive may soon be able to flourish in more northerly climes, some specialists believe, thanks to rising temperatures. Olive entrepreneur Mark Diacono ho ...
Topics: climate, food and agriculture, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

There's Something About Terry Bryant Terry, food-justice activist, answers readers' questions		23 Jun 2006	InterActivist
Bryant Terry, founder of b-healthy. What do you think about Wal-Mart offering organic products?�� -- Haven Bourque, San Francisco, Calif. That's the million-dollar question. Jumping on the organic bandwagon will probably mean higher profits for Wal-Mart, so they gladly carry products with the organic seal. But it's important to remember that Wal-Mart has very little concern for public healt ...
Topics: environmental justice, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Seedom Is on the March Millions of seed varieties to be secured in new Arctic vault		20 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Seedom Is on the March Millions of seed varieties to be secured in new Arctic vault Construction kicked off yesterday on a high-security vault to be dug into a frozen mountainside on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic, to protect that most precious of commodities: seeds. The vault will be sized to hold 3 million seed varieties, the source of every known crop on the planet. (Did you know there are 100,000 va ...
Topics: Arctic, food and agriculture, news, Norway (all these topics)

Ay, There's the Grub Bryant Terry, food-justice activist, answers Grist's questions		19 Jun 2006	InterActivist
Bryant Terry. What work do you do? I've committed myself to feeding people; illuminating the connections between poverty, malnutrition, and institutional racism; and working to create a more just and sustainable food system for everyone. b-healthy gets teenagers cooking. In 2001, I founded b-healthy (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth), a New York City-based food-justice organization ma ...
Topics: environmental justice, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Pay Watch On farmers' markets and food stamps	Umbra Fisk	19 Jun 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Do organic grocers take food stamps? Do farmers' markets? If not, what do ecologically/health-minded people on fixed incomes do? David Burch South Bend, Ind. Dearest David, Did you know that in many states food stamps are no longer stamps? Plastic cards similar to ATM cards have replaced the paper coupons. Electronic Benefit Transfer, it's called, and it's not dissimilar to a bank card with a finite, monthly re ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, green living (all these topics)

Don't Be a Menace to South Central Urban gardeners evicted from community farm in L.A.		16 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Don't Be a Menace to South Central Urban gardeners evicted from community farm in L.A. South Central Farm, a 14-acre community garden in a sea of warehouses in urban L.A., will be bulldozed to make way for ... a warehouse. The 350 low-income families who for years have been growing food on the plot this week lost their fight to save the farm. Landowner Ralph Horowitz obtained an eviction order, and protestors, who in ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

AZM Grace EPA will phase out highly toxic pesticide		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
AZM Grace EPA will phase out highly toxic pesticide If you've been avoiding Brussels sprouts because of pesticide contamination -- as opposed to the grossness -- you're in luck: by next year, the U.S. EPA plans to phase out organophosphate azinphos-methyl (AZM) on the odiferous buds, as well as on nuts and nursery stocks. By 2010, AZM would be banned completely, affecting growers of apples, blueberries, cherries ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Central Question Could the battle for South Central Farm be coming to a close?	Jason Mark	09 Jun 2006	Main Dish
The scene at South Central Farm would look familiar to anyone who's ever attended a multi-day protest: there's a makeshift kitchen to feed the masses, a small sound stage, a tent for banner-making. But the kitchen is preparing nopales quesadillas instead of vegan stew, the stage features a Norte�o band replete with cowboy hats, and the banner-makers are nine-year-old Latina girls. Que Dio ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Readers Digest Time series points out eco-benefits of eating smart		06 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Readers Digest Time series points out eco-benefits of eating smart Time's latest issue features a series called "Eating Smart," which includes a handful of enviro-tastic articles. One offers the revelation that grass-fed beef is better than its factory-farmed counterpart, both for you and for the planet. It makes a case for grass-fed as the new organic: sales of grass-fed beef are expected to increase more than 20 perce ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

Wining and Declining Global warming screwing up wine country		05 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Wining and Declining Global warming screwing up wine country Bad news for oenophiles: Global warming is messing with wine country. Wine grapes are highly temperature-sensitive, and if the globe gets much hotter (which smart folks say it will), famed wine-producing regions like France's Burgundy and California's Napa Valley may lose optimum climate for their grape varieties. Already, warmer temperat ...
Topics: California, climate, food and agriculture, France, news (all these topics)

The Scheme of the Crop On ethanol	Umbra Fisk	31 May 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm a little amazed by all the bandwagon-jumping going on over E85 ethanol. I wonder if a corn-based fuel can be sustainable over the long term, given the general risks of farming and the disappearance of American farms in the last 20 years. And doesn't anybody remember the great potato famine and the danger of relying on one crop? Before the unsuspecting public spends zillions of dollars buying into the idea of an ethanol-b ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, Big Ag, biofuels, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Whose 'Cide Are They On? California regulating pesticide air pollution and fish farming		30 May 2006	Daily Grist
Whose 'Cide Are They On? California regulating pesticide air pollution and fish farming California is trailblazing again: It aims to be the first state in the U.S. to tackle air pollution from pesticide use. State officials hope to eliminate tons (literally) of smog-forming gases that waft from pesticide-treated agricultural regions. California's Department of Pesticide Regulation -- long acc ...
Topics: air pollution, California, food and agriculture, news, toxics (all these topics)

Oil She Wrote On canola oil	Umbra Fisk	24 May 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I recently saw "organic canola oil" on a salad dressing bottle. I looked up the origin of canola oil, and it looks like it is a genetic modification of rapeseed. I thought organic certification disallowed genetically modified foods. What's the scoop? Tom Grundy Nevada City, Calif. Dearest Tom, Have you noticed yet that May is food month here on floor 2B? Food and plants, in honor of spring -- and to counter last month' ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, food and agriculture, GMOs, organic food (all these topics)

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