Archive for the 'Food' Category
One Shot Johnny
April 9th, 2009Great piece about a California slaughterman. What are the effects of the economic depression on his work? He’s booked solid, six days per week. Via: Mother Jones: “Here, piggy piggy,” calls the man peering through the early-morning fog into a livestock trailer, a .22-caliber rifle in his hands. It is 7 a.m. in farm country […]
Detroit: To Urban Hunter, Next Meal Is Scampering By
April 2nd, 2009Via: Detroit News: When selecting the best raccoon carcass for the special holiday roast, both the connoisseur and the curious should remember this simple guideline: Look for the paw. “The paw is old school,” says Glemie Dean Beasley, a Detroit raccoon hunter and meat salesman. “It lets the customers know it’s not a cat or […]
Obamas to Plant Organic Vegetable Garden on White House Lawn
March 20th, 2009Hmm. I don’t remember smoking crack this evening, so I’m at a bit of a loss for words here. Rather than trying to be cynical about this, and looking at it in terms of HR875, I’ll just sit here in stunned silence—for now—taking it all in. Ok, just a few words. Could it be possible […]
Gardening Industry Sees Boom as Families Grow Their Own Veggies to Save on Groceries
March 16th, 2009Path to Freedom is soooo good. Here’s the Journal, in case you get lost in all of the quality information on the main site. The Dervaes family was my inspiration to learn how to garden. They have taken urban homesteading to unthinkable levels; certainly beyond what might have been thought of as “maximum” even a […]
Industrial Pig Farms Breeding MRSA
March 13th, 2009Via: New York Times: The late Tom Anderson, the family doctor in this little farm town in northwestern Indiana, at first was puzzled, then frightened. He began seeing strange rashes on his patients, starting more than a year ago. They began as innocuous bumps — “pimples from hell,” he called them — and quickly became […]
Indiana: Thousands of Families Line Up at Mall to Get Food Handouts
March 11th, 2009Via: MSNBC: In this job-starved city where President Barack Obama last month made a public appeal for his economic stimulus plan, hundreds of volunteers — and an agency that specializes in handing out food — worked together Tuesday to feed 5,200 hungry families. Roughly 300 local volunteers worked with Feed the Children to distribute more […]
California Raw Almonds Must be Treated, Judge Rules
March 10th, 2009Mmm hmm. Oh, just wait for HR 875. Your clone burger with genetically engineered freedom fries and synthetic pHood perfumes—to hide the rancid smells—will be A-OK. But raw, whole foods that haven’t been saturated in carcinogens, cooked or irradiated… to render them “safe”… This is enemy combatant stuff. Via: McClatchy: A federal judge Monday upheld […]
Change We Can Believe In: How About the End of Farmers Markets? Say Hello to H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
March 9th, 2009Update: The Husband of the Bill’s Sponsor Does Work for Monsanto Reader CW tipped me off to this. It checks out. Rosa DeLauro is married to Stanley B. Greenberg. Here’s a bio on Greenberg: Stanley B. Greenberg is Chairman and CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. He has served as polling advisor to President Bill […]
Chavez Orders Expropriation of Cargill Rice Plant
March 5th, 2009Via: AP: President Hugo Chavez ordered the expropriation of a rice-processing plant in Venezuela owned by American food giant Cargill Inc. on Wednesday because the company allegedly was not distributing rice at prices imposed by the government. The socialist leader also threatened to nationalize Venezuela’s largest food producer, Empresas Polar, amid rising tension between his […]
More Seeds for ‘Doomsday Vault’
February 27th, 2009Via: BBC: Almost 90,000 food crop seed samples have arrived at the “doomsday vault” in the Arctic Circle, as part of its first anniversary celebrations. The four-tonne shipment takes the number of seeds stored in the frozen repository to more than 20 million. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built 130m (426ft) inside a mountain, aims […]
