Industrial Agriculture:
I don't make it a point to keep up with the goings on at Lower Blakemere Farm, Blakemere, Herefordshire (UK). But they have a very well-developed series of podcasts that let me do so anyhow. Here then, with a great...
Posted on August 13, 2008 8:00 AM • 0 Comments •
MIT Press publishes a series called Urban and Industrial Environments. Several of the "author-meets-blogger" books were from that series. The main editor is Robert Gottlieb of Occidental College out in California. I was just made aware of a blog for...
Posted on August 12, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
"But it's delicious." Here's a link worthy of linking to, eminently linkable: "Carnivores, Capitalists, and the Meat We Eat", by Jon Mooallem, in The Believer some time back (October 2005). It's all about popular meat writing. I take that to...
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Posted on August 8, 2008 9:00 AM • 3 Comments •
Go grab a burger with a slice of tomato, put your Swiftlik safety raft on, take a swig of that Nestle Purified Water, keep a bottle of your oldest antipsychotic drugs on hand, send an HP fax to your friend to tell them all about it, and call it a day well recalled.
Posted on July 10, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
With localism, the same conversations going on, over and over again. This week Salon.com joined in.
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Posted on June 27, 2008 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Summarizing some points on local food, community supported agriculture (CSAs), and energy, here's a Youtube catch....
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Posted on May 18, 2008 9:15 AM • 4 Comments •
"Big claims. Not too much support. Mostly unconvincing."
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Posted on May 9, 2008 10:15 AM • 3 Comments •
PETA and the seduction of meat; moral and pragmatic questions center on the future of the fake chicken.
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Posted on April 28, 2008 8:00 AM • 10 Comments •
As much energy to run the farmer's market for a day as running a household for a year...but so?
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Posted on March 24, 2008 9:30 AM • 4 Comments •
So says Princess Lettuce, heading the Organic Rebellion with Cuke Skywalker...and May the Farm Be With You
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Posted on February 13, 2008 4:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Come for October's alternative sponsor; stay to see what an "eight-way gene stack" is
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Posted on October 5, 2007 9:18 AM • 0 Comments •
Industrial agriculture didn't 'save' anyone work, it only shifted us to other forms of food service...
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Posted on October 1, 2007 7:59 AM • 9 Comments •
The role of sugar & candy & junk food industries in the crafting of the 2007 Bill
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Posted on September 7, 2007 8:02 AM • 1 Comments •
When it comes to food choices, Yogurt and dairy seem easiest. Plus, aesthetics matter too.
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Posted on August 22, 2007 8:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Money, taste, nutrition, time, convenience, source...a discussion about food philosophies.
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Posted on August 21, 2007 8:07 AM • 9 Comments •
What reasons beyond fuel use/CO2 emissions when making better food choices?
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Posted on August 10, 2007 9:30 AM • 6 Comments •
Getting leading-edge scientific work to small farms or undermining knowledge transfer models
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Posted on August 9, 2007 12:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Talk about both, today at noon
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Posted on August 9, 2007 8:35 AM • 0 Comments •
People seem generally interested in books and discussions about food, but less interested in books and discussions about how food is made. Of course, this is changing in recent years, perhaps because the visibility of sustainable practices, GMOs, and other...
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Posted on August 4, 2007 2:07 PM • 2 Comments •
A remarkable story from the Public Patent Foundation about harassing, intimidating, suing American farmers.
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Posted on July 26, 2007 6:10 PM • 0 Comments •
Just how competitive is organic farming compared to petroleum-based farming?
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Posted on July 24, 2007 12:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Making the right choice for health, taste, bio-security, and ecological harmony.
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Posted on June 5, 2007 4:43 PM • 1 Comments •
More on green campuses and environmental responsibility from higher education. This one's "a high-visibility effort to address global warming by garnering institutional commitments to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions, and to accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to...
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Posted on February 19, 2007 5:07 PM • 0 Comments •
"...nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science...takes the nutrient out of the context of food, the food out of the context of diet and the diet out of the context of lifestyle."
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Posted on January 30, 2007 3:32 PM • 5 Comments •
"2009: Genetically Modified Chicken Eggs that will save the world, says Monsanto"
Posted on October 19, 2006 9:59 AM • 0 Comments •
Amy Bentley, a Profesor of Public Health at NYU, has this well-done* review of Food, Politics, Food Politics, Morality of Food Production, the Ethics of Foopd Systems, and what not, at the Chronicle. The books reviewed in her essay are:...
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Posted on October 12, 2006 8:57 AM • 1 Comments •
But most of it isn't. You've eatin it, this food they speak of, good or bad or middling. I bet. No no, think again. I'm sure of it. I think later today I'll do it again. Mmmm, foody. I'll be...
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Posted on September 8, 2006 9:55 AM • 3 Comments •
David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher. 
Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff. 
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