Food&Drink:
Radiation has its purposes when it comes to mutating the genetic structure of plants. Microwaving orchids has produced quite a few happy accidents. Dr. Pierre Lagoda the head of plant breeding and genetics at the International Atomic Energy Agency, has...
Posted on August 29, 2007 11:32 AM • 0 Comments •
The unintended consequences of factory farming are just beginning to be fully understood. Fattening pigs for market in cramped pens isn't good for the animal and ultimately not for us as consumers or the environment. According to new research from...
Posted on August 28, 2007 11:51 AM • 0 Comments •
China plies its trade, apparently without regard for the things that make commerce not only dependable but possible: respect for intellectual property, food and drug purity, and basic product safety. With each tawdry revelation, China's brand of capitalism looks increasingly...
Posted on August 28, 2007 11:06 AM • 1 Comments •
Stomachs and petrol tanks are for the first time in competition and farmers everywhere are asking themselves a novel question: am I planting food or energy? There is no single source for the revolution sweeping across every continent. But one...
Posted on August 27, 2007 12:15 PM • 1 Comments •
There are few satisfactions in the world that compare with eating a sun-warmed tomato that has turned the perfect red and is just barely pliant to the touch: plucked, wiped on the inside of your shirt, and bitten into right...
Posted on August 27, 2007 12:06 PM • 1 Comments •
Fred Berman has a new found appreciation for eating locally. He's seeing that awareness in his job of the past 16 months as Small Farms Program coordinator for the Washington State Department of Agriculture. As "farmbudsman," he's working to develop...
Posted on August 20, 2007 11:34 AM • 0 Comments •
Odorless, colorless methane - the primary of natural gas - is a powerful greenhouse agent. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, pound for pound methane is about 21 times more effective at warming Earth's atmosphere than carbon dioxide is....
Posted on August 16, 2007 1:25 PM • 3 Comments •
Buffalo meat is undergoing a revival due to diners heightened concerns over factory farming. Earning simultaneous praise from chefs, nutritionists and environmentalists, at last you can have steak, without the guilt. This is good news for buffalo (before they wind...
Posted on August 16, 2007 12:51 PM • 0 Comments •
An oysterman in the nation's top oyster-producing state can make as much, if not more, collecting damage settlements from oil companies as from harvesting the bivalves themselves, according to a recent study by two Louisiana State University economists. Such payments...
Posted on August 15, 2007 12:12 PM • 0 Comments •
For enlightened foodies the connection between lowering food miles and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions is a no-brainer. In Iowa, the typical carrot has traveled 1,600 miles from California, a potato 1,200 miles from Idaho and a chuck roast 600 miles...
Posted on August 10, 2007 11:36 AM • 0 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
