Articles from May 2010
Posted by Barry on May 27, 2010
Julia Baum’s official title is Postdoctoral Associate for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of Santa Barbara. Her young nieces and nephews simply call her a sharkologist. Baum should issue an audience advisory before she discusses her research: Caution, studying the oceans’ great predators is seriously depressing business. “For 400 years, sharks have evolved […]
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Posted by Barry on May 26, 2010
Come and get us! We live at the end of a gravel road named, appropriately, Locust Lane in recognition of the ancient black locust trees that line it. The recent spate of unseasonal heat has brought them into full, fragrant bloom. They perfume our entire yard. Our noses tell us that it is time to invite […]
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Posted by Barry on May 26, 2010
Can we meet halfway? It has all but become an article of faith that sourcing food locally is the most sustainable alternative to our current global food production system. But there is a growing body of evidence that local may only be part of the answer. Speaking at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Cooking for Solutions […]
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| Tags: Leopold Institute, Local, Richard Pirog
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Posted by Barry on May 25, 2010
A chilean soldier was guarding a lonely garrison in the Attacama Desert near the Peruvian border when American geneticist Roger Chetelat and his field research team arrived there in 2005. The soldier obligingly provided what should have been straightforward directions to their destination: Follow the road beside the railroad tracks. As an afterthought, the sentry […]
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Posted by Barry on May 24, 2010
●Rainbow Warfare: Greenpeace Sets Sail to Save the Bluefin ●A Raw (Milk) Deal for Wisconsin Democracy ●Supermarket Giant to Fisheries: Clean Up, or We Won’t Buy from You ●Hot Dog! Hunt’s Takes High-Fructose Corn Syrup out of Ketchup Bluefins’ Last Hope? Last fall, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunaslived up to […]
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| Tags: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Greenpeace, High-fructose corn syrup, Publix, Raw Milk, Sustainable Seafood, Target
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Posted by Barry on May 17, 2010
●Recession Ends for Organic Retailers. ●What Happens When You Water Plants with BPA? (Not What You Think.) ●For Foie Gras Producer, There’s No Ducking Pollution Laws. ●President’s Cancer Panel: Eat Organic; Avoid Cancer. ●200,000 Foreign Firms Supply U.S. with Food. Guess How Many Get Inspected. Organic Economic Indicators Looking for tangible signs that […]
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| Tags: Bisphenol A, BPA, Carl Ichan, Hain Cestial Group, Horizon, Hudson Valley Foie Gras, Organic, President's Cancer panel, United natural Foods, Whole Foods Market
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Posted by Barry on May 11, 2010
It’s a good thing for Elena Kagan that there’s no non-GMO litmus test for Supreme Court nominees. She’d flunk. As Solicitor General, Kagan is supposed to represent the interests of the American people in matters that come before the Supreme Court. Instead, she has gone to bat for Monsanto Co. In a case that […]
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Posted by Barry on May 10, 2010
Ain’t easy keeping track of all this government largesse. Three prominent Republican United States senators sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently condemning the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” program, introduced last fall to help strengthen local food systems. John McCain (R-AZ), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), and […]
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Posted by Barry on May 7, 2010
Wake up in the morning. Enjoy a warm, soapy shower. Eat a bowl of cereal, perhaps with soy milk. Dab on some lipstick . . . Perform any of those mundane tasks and chances are you’ve done your bit to destroy a patch of rainforest somewhere in Indonesia where vast stands of virgin trees have […]
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| Tags: Cargill, Inc., Palm oil, Rainforest Action Network
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Posted by Barry on May 5, 2010
A cut above? Photograph: Bejo Seeds In supermarket tomatodom, this is the Holy Grail: a fruit thick-skinned enough to shrug off the insults of modern agribusiness, but still tender at heart and tasting like, well, a tomato. And John “Jay” Scott might have discovered it. Scott is a horticulture professor and tomato breeder at the […]
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