From the monthly archives: March 2008
According to the Population Reference Bureau, nearly 80 percent of you probably live in an urban area. Some of you may be lucky enough to have a weekly farmers market in a nearby city park or square, but I wonder if you’ve ever thought there might be an actual farm near you. [...]
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Thirteen states have introduced new bills that would require labeling of cloned meat, reports Natural Food Merchandiser. Bills, such as the one introduced in Kentucky use very clear language, “”No person [...]
Urban Agriculturalist is a series on the ways city and suburb dwellers use their land as a food resource.
Walking through the landscape of downtown San Francisco a visitor might notice an abundance of empty lots, but it would be a mistake to assume that these are pieces of public property. Instead, much [...]
Continue Reading →Let’s talk food additives. Even when I go to the health food store and pick up all-natural, gluten-free, sprouted hemp, vegan cookies (okay, especially when I pick up items that have been so worked-over…), I find ingredients on the back like phosphates, lactic acid, or carrageenen. What should I make of such seemingly blatant contradiction? [...]
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This is one of my favorite meals – breakfast or anytime! I do my best to use local ingredients. We have some happy local chickens that provide wonderful eggs and other than the tortilla, it depends on what growing season we are in as to how local I can be with the rest of [...]
Continue Reading →Editor’s note: David Shaw, a participant in the blog project by Professor Simran Sethi’s Media and the Environment course at the University of Kansas, examines the global impact of livestock production. This post was originally published to the course blog on Tuesday, March 15, 2008.
Recently, I discovered a [...]
Continue Reading →Ah yes, the veggie burger. If you’ve ever gone meat-free for a substantial amount of time, chances are you came to rely on this tried and true staple. It’s gotten me through many a company barbecue and airport layover. It turns out though, that most big name veggie burger brands are not actually [...]
Continue Reading →After 83 buffalo dairy providers from the Campania region of Italy were suspended after high levels of the toxicant class, dioxins were found in mozzarella made from their milk, two unlikely industries found themselves in the hot seat: independent farmers and traditional cheesemakers.
We often think of small farmers and food artisans as immune [...]
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