I’ll have the great fortune of spending a week this summer with Gary Nabhan, Director of the Center for Sustainable Environments, and wanted to share his manifesto for eating with you. Gary is the author of many books, including Coming…

Earlier, the New York Times reported that 100 people had died in Panama after taking medicine containing diethylene glycol that had been produced in China and exported as the harmless syrup glycerine. Due to international pressure and thousands of pet…

As I type I am watching one of my favorite movies of all time, The Milagro Beanfield War. This tale of a local farmer who diverts water to irrigate his beanfield gains support of the townspeople because they resent the…

Got five minutes and change? Watch this video from OxFam, enjoy some fine Amos Lee music, and learn some important stats about the U.S. commodity subsidy program. Then join us in reforming the farm bill and “Shout Out Loud”.

Black farmers call for boycott of Monsanto: The National Association of Black Farmers has asked its 60,000 members to boycott Monsanto products. The action is in protest of Monsanto’s $1.5 billion bid to acquire Delta & Pine Land Company. Dr….

The food and farm bill is big this year. And we need the help of each person that eats. There are many ways to plug in. The first step is to sign up for updates and alerts from the Religious…

Caption: Burning GMO Cotton in India In January 10, Jamuna Ramdas Ade decided she couldn’t take it any more. The cotton farmer from the Indian state of Maharashtra was so deep in debt that she swallowed a mouthful of monocrotophos,…

posted by Fritz Gutwein ” ‘They who do not give to another what belongs to the other are not eating their own bread, but are eating both their bread and the other’s.’ (Meister Eckhart) “The thousands of hungry persons in…

Hi-C Blast. Junk food or not? Check out this interactive online quiz that demonstrates how arbitrary and obsolete the USDA’s current national school food standards are. Knowing this, you may choose the non-intuitive answer. But in any case, you will…

Brian Halweil, author of the excellent book Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket can make complex issues digestable. Here are a couple video clips of him talking about local foods and sustainable seafood: In this first one,…