OK, this is a dog-bites-man story, I admit. A brief blurb published on the trade web site Food Manufacturing, announces “Agriculture Expert To Dispel Locavore Myth”. The release goes on to explain:
Roger A. Cady, Ph.D., Senior Technical Consultant at Elanco, will dispel the myth that purchasing locally grown food is better for the [...]
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Some articles I run across touch on so many issues I’m thinking about simultaneously, that it seems like I wrote the article myself. Although mine would usually not be as good. The latest example is a post by Sharon Astyk on the approaching crisis of not having a enough farmers. Astyk is also the author [...]
This year’s FamilyFarmed Expo in Chicago, March 11-13, is shaping up to be the ultimate Local Food and Sustainable Agriculture event of the year. For farmers, consumers and all food-related businesses and organizations in between, there seem to be MANY reasons to attend, but the keynote speakers and special guests alone should put this on [...]
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With the possible exception of New Orleans, no major American city has suffered more economic shocks than Detroit. Large tracts of land throughout the once-thriving city have been vacant for more than a generation. Each time the auto business has hit a tough patch, more manufacturing jobs exited the city, leaving behind abandoned factories, [...]
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Well, doesn’t this sound awesome:
“The DNR has granted preliminary approval to Rosendale Dairy to utilize a never-before-tried method of determining whether it can spread manure on fields with shallow groundwater.”
This quote is from an article in the Ripon Commonwealth Press (RCP), and is the latest development in the life of a Wisconsin dairy CAFO (Confined [...]
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I don’t read books about complex problems expecting to find comprehensive solutions. Few books deliver those. I read them to get ideas, understand what other people are thinking about these problems, and learn what additional sources of information are available. In this first installment of When Books About Food Collide, I review two books from [...]
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There has been a steady stream of books this year that explore (and sometimes attack) various aspects of our food culture. Every one of the books listed below touch the issues of local food and sustainable food production in some way. In several cases, the books are in direct opposition to each other. I like [...]
I hate to whine like a Britney fan, but Muskegon Critic’s post in Daily Kos the other day scared me with its headline. Turns out the post is mostly an explanation of the unique climate and growing conditions which enable a big chunk of western Michigan to produce such fine fruit crops. The only scary parts [...]
This may seem obvious, but many of the enlightened social progress “movements”, such as energy conservation, green consumption and sustainable food production are, to the poorest of our population in depressed inner city neighborhoods, remote lifestyle choices and eccentric hobbies of rich people. Every aspect of our society, in particular the big infrastructure systems like economic [...]
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Well yesterday it was contamination of bagged lettuce and spinach, today it’s a fish-killing virus spreading in the Great Lakes. Not dangerous to people, but a big problem for the fish in the Great Lakes. It’s a damn shame, because I would love to consider the fish that are catchable in the Great Lakes as [...]
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