Michael Pollan: The Mighty Rise of the Food Revolution
Alternet Michael Pollan Until very recently, food was invisible as a political issue. Something is stirring. Pollan reviews five books that address the heart of the food movement. Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin, Polyface All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? by […]
Whole Foods taps Longmont’s Earth Balance for soymilk
Boulder Daily Camera By Alicia Wallace, Camera Business Writer Move comes in wake of WhiteWave shifting Silk away from certified organic soybeans Fourteen years ago, a burgeoning Boulder company — White Wave Inc. — was responsible for launching Silk soymilk, a brand that is now the category leader. So when Whole Foods Market wanted to […]
Sno Pac stays true to its roots
Sno Pac Foods has stayed independent even as big players took over much of the organic food business Minneapolis Star Tribune By Mike Hughlett CALEDONIA, MINN. — It’s the height of the pea pick, and rivers of emerald green are flowing down the production line at Sno Pac Foods. The peas come fresh from a […]
Bumper crop: New law lets farmers sell more products
New Haven Register By Cara Baruzzi, Register Business Editor At Hindinger Farm, co-owner George Hindinger and his partners enjoy selling the fruits and vegetables they grow on their Hamden land, at farm stands and various farmers’ markets, but they are preparing to potentially sell more goods on a much large scale. A newly enacted state […]
How the freezer could save free-range cattle
The Durango Telegraph By Ari LeVaux Arapaho Ranch produces the kind of beef your inner cowboy wants to eat. With 595,000-acres sprawling across Wyoming’s wild and rugged Owl Mountains, the ranch is home to native grasses, wolves, mountain lions and grizzlies. The cattle are herded by Indian cowboys, each with his own fleet of seven […]
Bee Heaven owner: Organic farming is good for the foodie — and the land
Miami Herald By Ana Veciana-Suarez On a muggy summer day, as bruised clouds gather overhead, Margie Pikarsky wends her way through her five-acre farm pointing proudly at strips of cultivated land and a growing compost pile. A blue jay swoops across the field, then another. In the distance a cardinal trills. “I feel very connected […]
Farming the Future
We’ve been waiting 32 years for the state to map and protect Hawai‘i’s Important Agricultural Lands. The moment may be at hand. Honolulu Weekly By Ragnar Carlson Hawaii ‘78 The 1978 Constitutional Convention was the most significant moment in Hawaii politics since statehood. Among other sweeping reforms–the creation of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the […]
Meat With Antibiotics Off the Menu at Some Hospitals
Concerned about drug-resistant pathogens, medical professionals push to limit antibiotic use in animal farming The Chicago Tribune By Monica Eng The evening’s menu featured grass-fed, antibiotic-free beef over pasta, fresh seasonal vegetables and fresh organic peaches — items right at home in the city’s finest restaurants. Instead, the dishes were prepared for visitors, staff and […]
Field Report: A Michigan Teen Farms Her Backyard
New York Times By CHRISTINE MUHLKE Lawn mowing and baby-sitting are standard summer jobs for the enterprising teenager. Alexandra Reau, who is 14, combines a little bit of each: last year, she asked her dad to dig up a half acre of their lawn in rural Petersburg, Mich., so she could farm. Now in its […]
Antibiotics in Livestock Affect Humans, USDA Testifies
Des Moines Register (link no longer available) By PHILIP BRASHER There is a clear link between the use of antibiotics in livestock and drug resistance in humans, President Barack Obama’s administration says, a position sharply at odds with agribusiness interests. In testimony to a House committee on Wednesday, even the Agriculture Department, which livestock producers have […]
Physicians, Nurses, Clinicians, Hospitals Ask Congress to Enact Legislation Prohibiting Non-therapeutic Use of Antibiotics in Animal Production
Requests Come on Eve of Congressional Hearing on Use of Antibiotics in Agriculture Health Care Without Harm PR Newswire WASHINGTON– More than 1000 physicians and other clinicians, including nurses, have signed statements asking Congress to pass legislation to reduce the use of non-therapeutic antibiotics in food animals. Hospital and Healthy Systems representing over sixty healthcare […]
A Life Engulfed by Pesticides
The Atlantic by Barry Estabrook — Barry Estabrook was formerly a contributing editor at Gourmet magazine. Stints working on a dairy farm and commercial fishing boat as a young man convinced him that writing about how food was produced was a lot easier than actually producing it. He lives on a 30-acre tract in Vermont […]
