From the monthly archives: April 2010
This is a guest post by NRDC Growing Green Award-winner Fred Kirschenmann. Kirschenmann won in the Thought Leader category for his leadership at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, a New York nonprofit that operates as a sustainable farm, kitchen and teaching campus for urban New York residents.
I got my first [...]
Continue Reading →The US essentially pulled the plug on the killing of horses for human consumption a few years ago. Movement in a few states may be bringing it back, though, if Willie Nelson and others can’t persuade Congress to ban it completely.
The title above probably makes most of you (vegetarian or not) grimace [...]
Continue Reading →Amid recent outbreaks of E. coli and salmonella in everything from ground beef to cookie dough to spinach, Congress is considering new legislation to make food safer.
Given how often the industrial food industry violates safety procedures, more regulation seems like a no-brainer.
But a story in the San [...]
Continue Reading →This is a guest post by NRDC Growing Green Award-winner Mike Benziger of Benziger Family Winery. Benziger won in the Water Steward category for his industry-leading water conservation efforts, including an engineered wetland and innovative pond filtration system that recycles 2 million gallons of water per year.
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Should GM (genetically modified) foods be labeled as GM foods? I would say that obviously they should — we label everything from nutritional content to ingredients to place of origin — but there are many who think otherwise. Currently in the United States, food containing genetically-modified organisms does not have to indicate that [...]
Continue Reading →If you have read some of my earlier posts you know that I see a positive, but actually quite limited role for “local food.” But there is a situation where the increased production of “local food” is not just a nice concept – it is [...]
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