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December 28, 2007

EPA’s Holiday Gift to Big Ag

New West By Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel This Christmas season those who play naughty received an early gift from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). On December ...

December 17, 2007

Our Decrepit Food Factories

The Way We Live Now New York Times Magazine By Michael Pollan The word “sustainability” has gotten such a workout lately that the whole concept ...

December 7, 2007

Maybe Not Such a Great Idea After All?

Feeding ethanol waste to cows Grist by Tom Philpott Perhaps the most persistent debate around corn ethanol involves its “net energy balance” — that is, ...

December 3, 2007

Opinion: Give Farmers a Chance

North Platte Bulletin by Micheal Stumo Imagine if there was only one supermarket chain in New England, let’s call it Big Grocery. Big Grocery could ...

November 5, 2007

Weed It and Reap

The New York Times by Michael Pollan Berkeley, Calif. – FOR Americans who have been looking to Congress to reform the food system, these past ...

October 4, 2007

Business as Usual?

Why we shouldn’t forget the Farm Bill Grist by Aimee Witteman Last Wednesday, Monsanto announced that the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) approved a pilot ...

August 28, 2007

Oil and Food Don’t Mix

Congress just handed petroleum- and chemical-guzzling industrial farms five more years of wrongheaded subsidies, but chef Dan Barber says sustainable, organic food will yet prevail. ...

August 20, 2007

How to Add Oomph to “Organic”

The Feed The New York Times By Andrew Martin The organic industry has gone wild in the last decade, but you wouldn’t know it at ...

August 10, 2007

The Farmer’s Nightmare?

The New York Times Editorial Only a few years ago, ethanol was just a line in a farm-state politician’s stump speech, something that went down ...

July 9, 2007

The Two Americas of Food: Reflections on the 2007 Farm Bill

The Huffington Post Anna Lappe Like hundreds of others across the country, my neighborhood in Brooklyn got a farmers market a few years ago. Now, ...

July 6, 2007

Origins of Our Food

The New York Times Editorial \ Opinion With imports of agricultural products rising sharply and sporadic scares about their safety, Americans surely have a right ...

June 29, 2007

A Eulogy Written on a Country Pasture

Rest in Peace Vander Eyk Organic Dairy Amanda G. Rose, Ph.D. I live in the dairy capital of the world, Tulare County, California. I have ...