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Freestone Fermentation Festival: Joining Culture with Agriculture

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Calling all fermentation fanciers: Check out the Freestone Fermentation Festival. It's happening on May 21 in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco. Ninth-degree fermentation black belt Sandor Katz will be there (as will I). I'm looking forward to[...]

Fourfold Path To Healing Conference, post 1

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This past weekend, I attended the Fourfold Path To Healing Conference near San Francisco. Sally Fallon Morell quoted Schopenhauer: All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is[...]

_Meat: A Benign Extravagance_, by Simon Fairlie

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Food miles may not be over-extravagant in their energy use, but they are thickly implicated in a centralized distribution system which multiplies our energy expenditure at every opportunity and whose impacts include excessive packaging and[...]

Queen Elizabeth Drinks Raw Milk

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Did you know that Queen Elizabeth drinks raw milk? Here's what I say: If it's good enough for her, it's good enough for me. Ironically, selling raw milk is illegal in at least one of the countries over which Queen Elizabeth reigns (Canada). For[...]

Food Safety Bill Passes Senate (Again). Not A Good Thing.

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Last night, the US Senate unexpectedly passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, a bill granting the FDA broad new powers to regulate food. It is expected to cost $1.4 billion over the next four years, and require the hiring of thousands of new[...]

Our Food System Is Broken. Buying Local Food Can Help.

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For many of us, the fact that our food system is broken is not news. The US government subsidizes crops we don't need more of (like "number 2 field corn"), which get processed into foods that are bad for us (high-fructose corn syrup), and are fed to[...]

Veal

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If you drink milk or eat butter, you should be willing to eat veal. Or at the very least you should be okay with the idea that someone, somewhere is eating veal. Here's why: Dairy cows, in order to give milk, must have calves. Half the calves are[...]

Organic Eggs Are Not All Good

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Organic, "free-range" eggs from the grocery store are all pretty good, right? Wrong. The word "organic" on the package does not guarantee that the hens had humane treatment, space to move around, or access to the outdoors. And it doesn't guarantee[...]

Forbes Magazine Still Doesn't Get It: Monsanto Is Still Evil

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At the beginning of 2010, Forbes Magazine named Monsanto "Company of the Year", and wrote a long paean to them. I responded here. It's worth reading the comments posted to the Forbes website in response to their article, here. I looked through[...]

Voracious Vegan Starts Eating Meat

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Tasha, author of the top-ten vegan blog The Voracious Vegan, has started eating meat, and has renamed her blog VoraciousEats.com. This has stirred up quite a controversy. She posted here, ten days ago, about the medical and spiritual journey[...]