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Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity

By Staff Reports | May 1, 2015

Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin originally published this article in the spring 2015 Polyface Farms newsletter. We run the piece here with Joel's permission. -- Ed. While I was in Australia in February, imported Chinese raspberries carrying Hepatitis A (from human sewage) hospitalized a dozen people and heightened interest in my seminars to a fever pitch. The news media and individuals fell … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Transition Tagged With: food-borne illness, Joel Salatin, local food

Lemminged: to be herded off the peak oil cliff by filmmakers

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen | November 11, 2014

photo of couple on bench TV screen style

"Fish don't know they're living in water, nor do they stop to wonder where the water came from. Humans? Not much better, as we share a world engulfed by television. And the deeper our immersion becomes, the less likely it seems we'll poke our heads above the surface and see there must have been life before someone invented TV." Those are the opening words of a recent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: Eadweard Muybridge, Philo Farnsworth, television, Wes Jackson

Humanity’s heating of planet is planting seeds of hunger: Report

By Staff Reports | September 27, 2013

Ahead of IPCC report on global warming, Oxfam warns of dangerous spiral of poverty and food scarcity It is nearly a cliché to declare that the failure of the world's governments to respond to the repeated warnings by scientists and environmentalists about the perils of climate change is a crime against future generations. However, as a new study released Monday by Oxfam … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Food Tagged With: Bangladesh, famine, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Nepal, Oxfam, Pakistan, Russia

More reasons to avoid industrial meat

By Vicki Lipski | September 9, 2013

Monsanto protest image

Are you demanding locally-raised, pasture-fed meats? Do you protect yourself and your family by eating animals raised in a non-industrial environment that doesn’t depend upon the constant administration of low levels of antibiotics? If you do, you’ll be relieved that you do after you read this article. If you don’t, I’m about to give you a lot to think about. This little … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: CAFOs, GMOs, Monsanto

Sustainable farming mania is frustrating me

By Erik Curren | September 4, 2013

farm display

I'm certainly no farmer. I work at a computer all day. So it's odd that the books that get me most jazzed up these days are not about the big problems of the day -- the economy or politics or climate and energy. They're about farming. For me, that's a real about face. I used to revel in the skulduggery of the Koch Brothers and scorn the subtleties of heirloom … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Transition Tagged With: community gardens, farming, Joel Salatin, Michael Pollan, urban farming

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