Farm Bill end game
Apologies to all who have sent Digest items — I am camped out here at Ethicurean headquarters in a bit of a mental bunker, completely out of bandwidth given multiple projects with looming deadlines and...
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The enemy of my enemy: Why a Bush veto of the Farm Bill is bad for the food...
My former boss in DC once said that if she ever found herself on the same side of an issue as the Bush Administration, it was time to go back and look more closely: there must be a hidden agenda. That...
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Local meat gets star treatment at Kansas farmers market
Kansas may be the beef capital (PDF) of the United States, but people here aren't necessarily eating beef from the neighborhood. To introduce people in the Lawrence area to local meats — including many...
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Barack Obama on U.S. food & ag policy
Ari LeVaux sent us a link to his May 29 column for the Missoula Independent, Flash in the Pan, in which he interviewed Barack Obama over email about food and agriculture policy. Encouraging stuff,...
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The 2008 Farm Bill: Pollan, Eschmeyer on a bittersweet victory
Yesterday Michael Pollan — who, whether he likes it or not is the most widely read spokesperson for the sustainable food movement — sent an email to his list-serv (subscribe here) with his thoughts on...
View ArticleMini-Digest: Monsanto wants to “save” the world, Kill Bill Vol. 247, SOLE...
You say crisis, we say …Croesus: Monsanto has launched a massive PR campaign (New York Times) promising to double the yields of corn, soy, and cotton using genetically modified seeds. Never mind that...
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Carrots, sticks, and crumbs: Making the most of the new Farm Bill, and...
By Aimee Witteman (cross-posted on Gristmill) Last week, in a stuffy room on Capitol Hill, I joined a couple dozen activists and farmers to discuss the Farm Bill. Why? you ask. Why bother to meet in...
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Playing ketchup: Tomato industry concentration
Tomato season is over for most of the United States, so it's time to start shifting our tomato thoughts to canned, dried, and jarred tomatoes. Although tomatoes can be grown in all 50 states of the...
View ArticleReady, set, go change the food system, part 2: More USDA action items
On Friday we published the first half of a list of specific actions the new USDA could undertake in its first six months that could significantly change the food system. After polling a cross-section...
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No comment, no say: lend your voice to shaping four big food & ag policies
Photo from Iowa, courtesy of factoryfarm.org. It's easy to get cynical about our ability to influence policy or policymakers - especially when we don't have lots of money or a well-dressed K St. lobby...
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