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A Balance Between the Factory and the Local Farm: NYTimes Business
Written by DAMON DARLIN, found in the Business section of the NYTimes, and published here. (…) How practical is local food sourcing in a nation that enjoys a diversity of food? From a practical standpoint, there isn’t much that can … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, disease, ecology, farming, food, food industry, health, industrial agriculture, local food, United States
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Farming Practice Behind the Environmental Weight of Eating Meat
An op-ed found in the NYTimes, “The Carnivore’s Dilemma:” NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN argues that the farming practices that score the environmental weight of eating meat are not all the same. Read the full piece here.
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Tagged agriculture, animals, biodiversity, carbondioxide, carnivore, climatechange, diet, eating, ecology, emissions, farming, food, food systems, grazing, industrial agriculture, livestock, meat, methane, op-ed
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Dow Chemical Building Plant to Grow Algae for Biofuels
The NYTimes reported here last Sunday that Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels: (…) are set to announce Monday that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as a vehicle … Continue reading
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Tagged algae, Algenol Biofuels, biofuel, business, carbon dioxide, Dow Chemical, energy, environment, ethanol, Florida, fuel, hydrocarbons, industrial agriculture, industrial farming, industry, natural gas, oxygen, plastics, renewable, vehicle fuel
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Food, Inc
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Tagged agriculture, documentary, eating, food, food systems, industrial agriculture, supermarkets, video
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“A Good Food Manifesto for America” by Will Allen
(Re-posted from the Growing Food and Justice Initiative list-serve. Please read on. –ed.) A Good Food Manifesto for America by Will Allen, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Growing Power I am a farmer. While I find that this has … Continue reading
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Tagged action, African-American, agriculture, California, Centers for Urban Agriculture, change, community food system, compost, creative stimulus, demands, eating, economic recovery, economic stimulus, economy, Farmer, farmers, federal budget, food, food distribution, food policy, food production, food security, food supply, food system, food systems, fresh food, fruits, funding, good food, government, green, green economy, green jobs, Growing Food and Justice Initiative, Growing Power, happiness, health, hope, hunger, hungry, in, industrial agriculture, innovation, letter, local food, malnutrition, manifesto, Michael Pollan, Milwaukee, money, National Recovery Act, nutrition, poverty, President Obama, price, recession, schools, seeds, self-reliance, soil, spring, stimulus, stimulus package, summer, supermarkets, sustainable, teacher, Urban Agriculture, urban farms, urgency, vegetables, vision, visionary, Will Allen
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Food, Inc
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Tagged agriculture, consumer, disease, energy, food, food systems, health, industrial agriculture, industry, law, local, meats, movies, nutrition, supermarket, trailer, vegetable, video
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Mourning with No End
In the dark, Global North: “Green Revolution Trapping India’s Farmers in Debt” aired Tuesday on National Public Radio, and a brief mention was reported in the April 15th edition of the UK Independent: Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, agriculture crisis, agriculture debt, agriculture suicides, Chattisgarh, crisis, debt, Delhi, economy, environment, farmer debt, farmer suicides, farmers, farming, Global North, Global South, Green Revolution, grief, historical background, historical context, history, India, industrial agriculture, mourning, NPR, suicide, Vandana Shiva
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Tag, We’re It: New York Times
An Op-ed by SHANNON HAYES in the March 10th online edition of NYTimes, written against the plan for animal ID chips coming from the Department of Agriculture, frankly concludes to scrap the whole system, instead of making expensive tracking a … Continue reading
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Tagged animal ID chips, animals, Department of Agriculture, farmers, farming, food, food security, food systems, illness, industrial agriculture, op-ed, price, technology
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