Eaters must become more political – we can’t just vote with our forks
Alternet - 2/14/2011. By Wenonah Hauter – As the popular face of the Obama administration’s advocacy for healthy, nutritious food, Michelle Obama has side-stepped several critical consumer food issues like organics, genetically engineered food, fair markets for farmers and ranchers, and local and regional food economies. |
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Kid-Safe law under attack
Bangor Daily News - 2/14/2011.By Hannah Pingree – In the spring of 2009, The Washington Post uncovered details of a brainstorming meeting of “industry insiders” at a Washington, D.C., club about how to best tamp down public concern over the chemical bisphenol-A, known as BPA. The insiders were particularly concerned about mothers, who were becoming more and more aware of the dangers of BPA. |
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Animal welfare debate fires up in Germany
TreeHugger - 2/13/2011. By Christine Lepisto – The question of animal welfare shot straight into consumer awareness with the recent dioxin-contaminated egg scandal in Germany. Now, Germany's Agricultural Minister, Ilse Aigner, has proposed no less than an end to practices such as caging of laying chickens, branding of horses and cattle, and castration of piglets without anesthesia. |
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Looking for a new blueberry? Think pink
Maine Sunday Telegram - 2/13/2011. By Tom Atwell – Nancy and I have been putting together our orders for spring planting this year. Some of the items we are trying are just for curiosity. One of the big curiosity plants is "Pink Lemonade" blueberry, which showed up for the first time in a number of catalogs. |
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