While we wait for congress to get back to work on the Farm Bill, let’s take a look at this first study to look at the impact of complete diets. While it is commonly said that changing one’s diet compares…
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December 5, 2007
Posts By: Andrew Kang Bartlett
November 28, 2007
Hopeful Edge in Ending Hunger
This summer, Anna Lappé gave one of the keynotes at the Presbyterians for Restoring Creation National Eco-Justice Conference. You can listen to hers and other great presentations related to Food and Fuel and download conference presentations here. Also, I just…
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November 22, 2007
Healthy eating habits “commercials” by high schoolers
Happy Thanksgiving! These short videos were created by University City High School students interning with the Urban Nutrition Initiative over the past several summers – each summer they created one or two of the public service announcements you will see…..
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November 19, 2007
What the World Eats
Imagine inviting yourself to dinner with 30 different families… in 24 countries. Imagine shopping, farming, cooking and eating with those families… taking note of every vegetable peeled, every beverage poured, every package opened. Well that’s what photographer Peter Menzel and…
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November 9, 2007
It’s the Agronomy, Stupid
Yesterday, Tom Philpott did a masterful job explaining why gutting subsidies shouldn’t be the focus of Farm Bill reform efforts. He zeros right in on overproduction as the real culprit and calls for support of the Dorgan Grassley amendment to…
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November 4, 2007
A Fair Trade Coffee Prelude . . . before the Farm Bill alerts begin!
This is a great little 8-minute video about Equal Exchange, produced by the Zana Network as part of their “Bright Green” series on progressive small businesses. Also from the Bright Green series is this piece about the Cafe Verde Food…
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October 21, 2007
Plenty
By Jana McNally Ten years ago I called myself a farmer. I rose at dawn with my co-farmer husband, drove to our farm thirty-five minutes away and put in a twelve, sometimes fourteen hour day. We didn’t take days off,…
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October 17, 2007
Feds Don’t Know How Rice Escaped
If you are like me and have done a bit of reading about genetic engineering in agriculture, you are suspicious of the hype about the potential of GMOs for feeding the world. So far, commercial use of GMOs’ greatest success…
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October 17, 2007
Of church and stake: farming for the soul
Sister Mary Ann Garisto at her non profit farm, Sister’s Hill Farm, in Dutchess county brings healthy produce to the needy in New York. (Phil Mansfield for the New York Times) Did you even know there was a Christian Vegetarian…
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October 10, 2007
Greenpeace Exposes Anheuser Busch’s Use of Genetically Engineered Rice in Beer
I highlighted the dangerous effects of additives on kids below. Now, it looks like Budweiser is experimenting with unwanted additives in a favorite adult (usually) beverage! WASHINGTON – October 8 – Greenpeace released the results of analyses showing the presence…
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