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back our food system. We are all "eaters". Sustainable living information is
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Britons prefer Thai takeaway to fish and chips and want food
produced locally, according to an unprecedented government
report.
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The discussion featured Michael Pollan, the author of The
Omnivore's Dilemma and the new book In Defense of Food, and
Dan Barber, the James Beard Award-winning chef from Blue
Hill in Manhattan and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in
Westchester County, New York. It was moderated by the author
of This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader,
Joan Dye Gussow, who is a nutritionist and professor
emeritus at Columbia University Teacher's College.
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Most of the world's organic farming is based on the wealth
of seed diversity that farmers have created and sustained
through generations of local seed exchange and improvement
systems and traditional knowledge. But, today, new
regulations governing seeds in organic farming, more attuned
to the needs of seed corporations than seed savers, are
popping up everywhere, with potentially devastating
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The only way to way avert a food crisis resulting from oil and
natural gas price hikes and supply disruptions while also
reversing agriculture's contribution to climate change is to
proactively and methodically remove fossil fuels from the food
system.
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.Organic, sustainable agriculture that localize food systems
has the potential to mitigate nearly thirty percent of
global greenhouse gas emissions and save one-sixth of global
energy use.
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What a fossil-fuel free agriculture might look like
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We now need to ask whether we want to be
content with an "organic" food option that
places the marketing concerns of corporate America
ahead of nutrition, flavor and social benefits to
consumers.
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Bill Engdahl is a leading researcher, economist and
analyst of the New World Order who's written on issues of
energy, politics and economics for over 30 years.
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We now need to ask whether we want to be content
with an "organic" food option that places the
marketing concerns of corporate America ahead of
nutrition, flavor and social benefits to consumers.
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While Bourne’s property is two acres, parts of it are
covered by trees and her home. According to the existing
rules, that means the farm status she has enjoyed since
1996 might be taken away..
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For many years, there has been a debate between
peat producers and conservationists as to the long term
effects of the use of peat moss as a gardening material.
That argument is getting louder as our knowledge of the
dangers of global warming increase.
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Last month Britain's Soil Association, which certifies
produce as organic, toughened its rules for air-freighted
food. Suppliers must show evidence that farmers in
developing countries are being paid a fair price, and that
there are no local markets for their produce.
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Vilsack: USDA Must Serve Eaters as Well as Farmers
When former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack was nominated as secretary of
agriculture, many food policy activists, noting his reputation as a
friend to corporate agriculture and ethanol producers, rendered a
verdict that was swift and harsh: agribusiness as usual. Whole
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