Open-market sustainability
Solutions - 2/2/2012.  By Patrick Doherty – America has a pathway for leading a transition to global sustainability marked by widespread economic success and a reduction in strategic threats and friction. Pent-up demand and stranded capital can underwrite the economic engine of open-market sustainability, shifting from sprawl to smart growth, from industrial to regenerative agriculture, and from taxing income to taxing waste. |
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The hub: a promising experiment in food processing for small farms
The Atlantic - 2/2/2012.  By Barry Estabrook – Take pity on male baby goats. Their sisters look forward to long lives providing milk for cheese or fiber for yarn. But for most goatherds in this country, bucklings, as the little fellows are called, are inconvenient byproducts. With no infrastructure for the processing and distribution of their meat, many young bucks are simply euthanized and their carcasses discarded. |
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Isn’t it about time to start labeling genetically modified foods?
The Atlantic - 2/1/2012.  By Marion Nestle – I was fascinated to read Cookson Beecher's Food Safety News' analysis of current campaigns to label genetically modified foods (GMOs). It brought back memories of the time I served as an obviously ignored consumer representative on the Food and Drug Administration's Food Advisory Committee. We learned later that the FDA was using the committee to give it a heads up on decisions that were already made. |
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NYC: protesters come out against Monsanto
Food Republic - 1/31/2012.  By Eleanor West – If you happened to be walking around Lower Manhattan this morning, you might have noticed the anti-Monsanto chants echoing from Foley Square. In a protesting trifecta, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Big Food, and Food Democracy Now joined forces to support family farmers as the first phase of their federal court case against food industry giant Monsanto. The crowd of around 200 people included farmers from as far away as Maine as well as local food activists and chefs. |
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