Fishermen working the waters of Alaska’s Copper River district claim that their salmon are the best in the world. Fishermen from other parts of the state insist that their fish are equally good and that Copper River’s reputation is founded more on well-executed PR than intrinsic quality. Discretion is the better part of valor, […]
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Fresh from stops in Washington, D. C., on the National Mall and at the State Department, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ well-traveled Modern-Day Slavery Museum is heading up the eastern seaboard. Centered around a tomato truck nearly identical to one in which slaves were locked at night in 2008 case, it will be visiting Baltimore, […]
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Paul Greenberg’s Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food should be required reading for anyone who eats seafood. The assignment won’t be a burden. Greenberg is an unfailingly entertaining writer, and his book arms you with the information you need to make intelligent choices when you are confronted by the confusing and sometimes […]
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Pop a Cork, Save a Forest Shrimp on Prozac There’s Oil in Them There Cereal Boxes Pop a Cork, Save a Forest We had a dinner party last night for a group of friends who enjoy their wine. I’m glad to report that we more than did our bit to save the forests of Portugal, […]
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Big Ag’s Big Pal in the Oval Office The World’s Bread Basket in Danger of Rusting Away FDA Takes a Anti-Antibiotic Stance—Finally Federal Dietary Guidelines: Organic no Better than Conventional Big Ag’s Big Pal in the Oval Office Even as a journalist who is supposed to follow matters related to […]
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| Tags: Antibiotic, Dietary Guidelines, FDA, GMO, Monsanto, Organic, Wheat
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Excuse my gas. There is one big difference between Green Mountain Dairy and most other large milk farms: It doesn’t stink. When I pulled into the well-tended barnyard in northern Vermont last week, there was not a whiff of evidence to suggest that the place is home to 1,800 dairy cattle I had dropped […]
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●Oil Enters the Gulf Food Chain ●Ohio Farm Animals’ Crate Escape ●A Job Offer Red-Blooded (and White-Skinned) Americans Can—And Will—Refuse ●Monsanto’s Profits Drop as Farmers Avoid GMO Seeds Lubricated Crab Larvae In had to happen sooner or later. Oil has officially contaminated the Gulf of Mexico’s seafood chain. Last week Geoff Pender of the […]
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The nitrogen in chemical fertilizer does two things incredibly well. It supercharges crop growth, and it produces nitrate, a chemical that is ultra soluble in water and easily passes through soil to accumulate in the ground-water table. Once there, nitrates can persist for decades and increase in concentration as more fertilizer is added. Ingestion of […]
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