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Have a Peasant Tomorrow Chavannes Jean-Baptiste ensures a future for Haitian farmers	Michelle Nijhuis	22 Apr 2005	Main Dish
Chavannes Jean-Baptiste. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, faces overwhelming poverty. Massive deforestation has left its people vulnerable to deadly mudslides and floods, such as those that killed an estimated 3,000 people in late 2004, when tropical storm Jeanne swept through the area. The ouster of President Jean-Bertrand A ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Haiti (all these topics)

Ubiquity Is the Mother of Reinvention Labeling and certification move beyond organic in U.S.		19 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Ubiquity Is the Mother of Reinvention Labeling and certification move beyond organic in U.S. With the U.S. organics industry going mainstream, a coterie of anti-The-Man farmers are getting out, eschewing federally regulated "organic" certification and creating terms and systems of their own to address eco-friendly agricultural practices not covered by the federal regs. The Food Alliance has created a cer ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, United States (all these topics)

Berate and Barrel Open-barrel trash burning becoming a hot issue for states		07 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Berate and Barrel Open-barrel trash burning becoming a hot issue for states Not interested in paying the $1- or $2-per-bag fee for trash disposal? Just throw it all in a barrel in your backyard and burn it. That's what thousands of upstate New Yorkers -- and millions of rural Americans -- do, and it's making some environmental activists hot under the collar. But a bill t ...
Topics: food and agriculture, New York, news, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

You Say Tomato, I Say Hidden Costs of Transport Locally grown food greener than organic, British study says		03 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
You Say Tomato, I Say Hidden Costs of Transport Locally grown food greener than organic, British study says Though organic farming is relatively easy on the environment, buying locally grown food, even the pesticide-sprayed variety, is usually more earth-friendly than buying organic, a new study contends. Published in the journal Food Policy, the study found that the transportation of food over long distances -- ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Ask Your Dealer Today! Organic marijuana certification sought in California county		15 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Ask Your Dealer Today! Organic marijuana certification sought in California county Need your pot, but worried about all the chemi ... dude, you gonna eat that? Wait, where were we? Oh, for all those who prefer their pot free of toxic chemicals (and have a user card allowing them to smoke it for medical purposes, of course), there's good news from Mendocino County, Calif. -- the very county that last ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, green living, news (all these topics)

Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies		07 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies Turns out tax cuts for the wealthy aren't cheap. President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget, sent to Congress today, would cut the U.S. EPA budget by about 6 percent and the National Park Service budget by nearly 3 percent, part of a broad range of cuts that will also affect Medicaid, home-heating aid for the poor ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Give Peas a Chance War-torn countries fight to protect genetic variability of crops		26 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Give Peas a Chance War-torn countries fight to protect genetic variability of crops Scientists and agricultural breeding specialists have developed a system to recover and restore rare but valuable crop varieties that might otherwise be lost forever to the ravages of war and heedless development. Called "smart aid," the strategy involves searching out important genetic varieties -- such as those able to with ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Iraq, politics (all these topics)

Unholy Cow On leather upholstery	Umbra Fisk	20 Jan 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, It seems everyone is getting leather upholstery in their cars and on their couches these days. Where is it coming from -- the same cows that are being slaughtered for hamburgers, or special cows that are raised for their hides? What is the environmental impact of all this luxurious leather? Sharon Collegeville, Penn. Dearest Sharon, Hides are a byproduct of food-related animal processing. Cattle are large, expensive animals, ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, green living, water pollution (all these topics)

Full of Crop Cultivation of GM crops on the rise		13 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Full of Crop Cultivation of GM crops on the rise Could 8 million farmers be wrong? Well, yes, contend a growing number of critics of genetically modified crops. Despite widespread resistance to GM foods abroad and in some areas of the U.S. (OK, California), the planting of bioengineered crops is on the rise in 17 GM-friendly countries. There, farmers grew 200 million acres of the controversial plants last year, up 20 percent f ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Please Pass the Hemp, Billy DEA drops resistance to hemp food products		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Please Pass the Hemp, Billy DEA drops resistance to hemp food products Hemp may be the new soy. Recently, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency quietly ended its attempts to ban hemp oil and sterilized industrial hemp seed in food products. (Yes, these products are taken from the Cannabis plant, but no, they won't even get your little brother high.) "It's a victory [for the hemp industry]," says food s ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States (all these topics)

Water, Water Everywh ... Hey, Where'd the Water Go? Agriculture needs to start conserving water, badly		11 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Water, Water Everywh ... Hey, Where'd the Water Go? Agriculture needs to start conserving water, badly A new study by David Pimentel in the journal BioScience backs its call for greater agricultural water conservation with some disturbing statistics. Worldwide, agriculture uses some 70 percent of the freshwater supply. The ginormous Ogallala aquifer, which supplies water to a fifth of all irrigated la ...
Topics: food and agriculture, United States, water conflicts (all these topics)

Father of the Bribe Monsanto agrees to pay $1.5 million in penalties for Indonesian bribes		07 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Father of the Bribe Monsanto agrees to pay $1.5 million in penalties for Indonesian bribes When agrochemical giant Monsanto's bid to introduce genetically modified cotton to Indonesia was met with widespread protests from farmers and activists, it bribed a government official in order to avoid having an environmental impact study conducted on its GM crop. Yesterday Monsanto agreed to pay $1.5 million in fines -- $1 mi ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Every Worm Is Sacred On composting	Umbra Fisk	06 Jan 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Can you tell me what is the best and most effective composter for a small urban backyard? Joe Baltimore, Md. Dearest Joe, Sort of. It's ultimately a very personal choice, and one that depends on what you will try to compost and the amount of time you are willing to spend helping the compost along. You may be familiar with the concepts of "aerobic" and "anaerobic" decomposition. Aerobic is better, and co ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, gardening (all these topics)

Holy Frijoles! Burgeoning soybean market transforming South American environment		16 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Holy Frijoles! Burgeoning soybean market transforming South American environment The global market for soybeans is exploding, largely driven by massive demand from China, and the resulting modern-day agricultural gold rush is transforming the landscape in South America. Farmers are chopping down rainforests, colonizing savannahs, damming rivers, and digging canals, all in an effort to get more land to raise the crop, wh ...
Topics: food and agriculture, South America (all these topics)

Fruit Scootin' Boogie On odd fruit	Umbra Fisk	16 Dec 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Yesterday in the grocery store I saw a "golden kiwi." Is there really such a thing? It was over twice the size of a regular kiwi and the familiar fuzz was not there. It was almost as smooth as a nectarine. When I inquired of the produce representative, she told me that it was a "natural" unaltered fruit and that I could taste it if I wanted to. Naturally, I declined. I am very leery of this strange new f ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Ay-Yay-Yayurvedic Imported herbal remedies found to contain lead and other nasties		15 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Ay-Yay-Yayurvedic Imported herbal remedies found to contain lead and other nasties Ayurvedic herbal supplements imported from South Asia may contain lead, mercury, and arsenic, sometimes at levels high enough to cause serious health problems, including vomiting, convulsions, and seizures. A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 20 percent of the remedies purchased in the U.S. ...
Topics: food and agriculture, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Hamburger Patty Patricia Lovera, food safety crusader, answers readers' questions		10 Dec 2004	InterActivist
Patricia Lovera, Public Citizen. Scientifically, what is wrong with irradiated food? I haven't seen any studies indicating illness or unhealthy effects. The articles I did read indicated that some foods could be preserved without refrigeration safely and longer.�� -- Jerry Broadbent, Bucoda, Wash. Concerns center around the potential health effects of eating chemical byproducts created in the process o ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Sweet 'n' Low-Down Sugar is causing environmental catastrophes		09 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Sweet 'n' Low-Down Sugar is causing environmental catastrophes A high-sugar diet is slowly fattening and sickening American people, but we're getting off easy. Turns out the sweet stuff is outright killing endangered Florida panthers, not to mention the ecosystem in which they live. Almost 700,000 acres of the Florida Everglades have been drained to create the Everglades Agricultural Area, about 80 per ...
Topics: Australia, Florida, food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics)

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Poison Spray Afghan poppy fields mysteriously sprayed with chemicals		06 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Poison Spray Afghan poppy fields mysteriously sprayed with chemicals Recently, planes have been flying over the poppy fields of Afghan farmers, spraying them -- along with houses, orchards, and perhaps even families -- with toxic chemicals apparently intended to kill poppy crops and keep them from being converted to heroin. Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed shock at th ...
Topics: Afghanistan, food and agriculture, toxics (all these topics)

All You Need Is Lovera Patricia Lovera, food safety crusader, answers Grist's questions		06 Dec 2004	InterActivist
Patricia Lovera With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am deputy director of the Energy and Environment Program at Public Citizen. We have campaigns on energy (fighting nuclear power and electricity deregulation), against the privatization of our water supplies, and on food safety (fighting food irradiation and other methods of industrialized food production that negatively aff ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

All the Same Toxicity, Now With 90 Percent Ubiquity! Rocket-fuel chemical taints lettuce and milk throughout the U.S.		01 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
All the Same Toxicity, Now With 90 Percent Ubiquity! Rocket-fuel chemical taints lettuce and milk throughout the U.S. Here's some unsettling food news: Perchlorate, an explosive component of rocket fuel, was found in about 90 percent of lettuce samples and 97 percent of milk samples from around the U.S. tested by the Food and Drug Administration. Health officials said the levels of contamination found shouldn' ...
Topics: food and agriculture, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Paulding Gray Mega-farms in Ohio offer stench but little else to communities		29 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Paulding Gray Mega-farms in Ohio offer stench but little else to communities The Plain Dealer examines the effects of eight giant hog farms built in Paulding County, Ohio, since 1994 and five mega-dairies since 2000, and comes away with a grim cautionary tale. A number of local families have fled from their homes, some unable to live with the stench from open manure pits, others because the hydrogen sulfide ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Ohio, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Soy Story On the environmental impacts of soy	Umbra Fisk	18 Nov 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I'm interested in learning more about the treatment and genetic modification of soy and how prevalent this is. I think a lot of folks choose products such as soy milk because they think they are making a better choice for the earth, as well as themselves. I think this is an overlapping issue and qualifies for your help. Perhaps a slant toward educating us on the state of soy farming and production would be an acc ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics (all these topics)

Shark Tale U.S. proposes international rules to curb shark killing		16 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Shark Tale U.S. proposes international rules to curb shark killing Those Americans who despair in thinking their country a laggard on so many international environmental issues can take heart -- at least the U.S. is firmly against shark finning. Yesterday, at a conservation meeting being hosted in New Orleans, the U.S. government proposed sweeping international measures to curtail the killing of sharks in the A ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, politics (all these topics)

Bringing Shapeless Hemp Sweaters to Yuppies, at Last Whole Foods ponders move into organic clothing		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Bringing Shapeless Hemp Sweaters to Yuppies, at Last Whole Foods ponders move into organic clothing Have you ever felt chafed by the inconvenience of having to go one place for your bulk bulgur wheat and another for your Guatemalan organic cotton poncho? Well we've got good news: From here on in you can point your Lexus SUV in one direction only, to organic grocer Whole Foods. The retailer is ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, green living, United States (all these topics)

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