Articles from February 2010
Posted by Barry on February 26, 2010
With faux jungles full of parrots, pods of under-water-ballet-performing mermaids, and parks cashing in on every conceivable theme, it would seem that the last thing Florida needs is yet another “attraction.” But if you’re in the Sunshine State during the next six weeks, I strongly urge you to visit the new Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum. [...]
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Posted by Barry on February 19, 2010
Along with their usual rations of grain and prepared feed, factory-farmed hogs and chickens in the United States also dine on a steady diet of antibiotics. The animals are given the drugs, not to prevent or cure illness, but simply because low-level doses of antibiotics stimulate them to grow faster than untreated animals. This may [...]
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| Tags: Boston University, Factory Farming, Free Radicals, Jim Collins, MRSA, Superbugs
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Posted by Barry on February 17, 2010
Writing articles about food and sustainability is a hard job for a naturally chipper fellow. Happy endings are, sadly, few and far between. But in the last week or so, some very good news indeed has broken in relation to a couple of recent posts on this site. Let’s take a moment to celebrate. 1. [...]
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| Tags: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Cornucopia Institute, Organic Milk, Red Snappers
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Posted by Barry on February 16, 2010
For years I’ve followed reports about the environmental downside of open-water salmon farms, which is to say virtually all salmon farms. My conclusion is that it is one of the most environmentally destructive ways we produce food. A salmon farm is nothing more than a vast, floating feedlot, except feedlots, at least nominally, have to [...]
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Posted by Barry on February 15, 2010
Last Friday, Politics of the Plate received the following email from the legal department of Condé Nast Publications, the company that recently shut down Gourmet magazine, where I was an independent contractor for a number of years. The email concerns a half-dozen articles linked to at the bottom of the left-hand column of this site. [...]
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Posted by Barry on February 10, 2010
Since 2004, the European Union has effectively banned the use of the herbicide atrazine, which, in some studies, has been linked to cancer, low-sperm counts, insulin resistance and birth defects. But according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it’s perfectly OK for Americans to bathe in the stuff—literally. Applied to the nation’s fields at a [...]
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Posted by Barry on February 3, 2010
Long regarded as the gold-standard for eco-certification of sustainable fisheries around the world, the London-based Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has begun to lose some of its glitter, in the eyes of many of the scientists and environmentalists meeting in Paris this week at the Seafood Choice’s Alliance’s annual Seafood Summit. The flashpoint is the [...]
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| Tags: Alaskan pollock, Chilean seabass, Daniel Pauly, Fraser River Salmon, Greenpeace, Marine Stewardship Council, Seafood Choices Alliance, Seafood Watch, South Georgia, Watershed Watch Salmon Society
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Posted by Barry on February 1, 2010
Atlantic albacore tuna have long paddled in the shadow of their bigger, more expensive, and more endangered cousins, Atlantic bluefin tuna. Now, “the forgotten tuna” is finally getting some respect, but for all the wrong reasons. Speaking at the Seafood Choices Alliance’s Seafood Summit in Paris last weekend, Phil Kline, Senior Oceans Campaigner at Greenpeace said, [...]
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