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Small Family Farms: Definition and Some Challenges
Sometimes it seems like the world I think I know is just a falsehood, a play put on by the Powers That Be to keep me pacified, dumbed down, and walking the way they want me to walk. Take, for example,...
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S. 510 Passed with the Tester-Hagan Amendment
As many of you may have heard, S 510 the food safety bill, passed the Senate yesterday. I’ve discussed this bill once before. In that post I asked that people ask their Senators to vote for the...
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Wikileaks and GMO/GM food, More cables, more fun!
Recently our own Grayslady posted an excellent article about Wikileaks, Monsanto and GMO Corn. She discussed a cable sent in late 2007 from our then Ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton, in which he...
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Didn’t we just do this?
(In which Sima works herself up into a frothing rant.) Commodity futures prices, wheat, rice and corn, are rising again after a brief fall. In fact, they are supposed to top the records set in 2007/08...
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Follow-up: GM Alfalfa
I wrote about GM Alfalfa several days ago, and wanted to post a short followup. First, do we really need GM Alfalfa? Probably not. It’s not like Alfalfa is riddled with a weed problem in this country....
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Gambling with Hunger
During the wind down of the financial crisis several years ago, a few people that read my more wonky threads asked me where I thought the next speculative bubble would develop. I answered food more...
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Monday Afternoon, Sky Dancing in the Garden
I was thinking about writing a gardening and food post, then Kat mentioned gardening in the Monday Reads and so I ran with it. Up here in the northern-westernest part of the lower 48 La Nina has been...
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Friday Evening News Reads: Murphy NC Tornado Damage, Pink Slime, Spiders and...
Good Evening… Tonight, for your viewing pleasure, I have videos and images full of destruction…disgust…terror…dated perceptions and bad romance. Those being a collection of tornado damage, pink slime,...
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