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Sun Apr 26, 2009 at 21:38:38 PM PDT
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I've been hibernating the past few days. My internet's still broken and my dad's mailing me my old laptop to see if that will fix the problem. In the meantime, I am writing this post from an internet cafe and I am very (VERY) annoyed. I'm sitting next to a woman with big hair who smells like hair care products and a family with a million small kids just came in. The kids are going crazy. In addition to internet, this place's main business is gelato. Anyway, here's what's on my plate besides mocha rum crunch gelato:
- In a poll, people say yes to subsidies for small farmers, and no to subsidies for large farmers.
- My new favorite school lunch blog gives us an update on school food legislation.
- Bonnie at Ethicurean tells all about the Kellogg Food and Society conference I attended last week.
- Coca-Cola denied human rights abuses in China at its annual stockholders' meeting. But this brings up an interesting point - one I've been meaning to discuss here for a while. Shareholders have power to make companies reform - that's what happened to McDonald's earlier this year when shareholders extracted a promise from the company to cut pesticide use in its potatoes.
- Here's a fantastic interview with Curt Ellis of King Corn fame. I got to meet him last week. I was very impressed.
- Check out this article on planting trees in Anacostia, a poor neighborhood in Washington, D.C. I got all excited when I read the title, and then realized once I read the article that they weren't talking about fruit trees. But that's OK. Any trees at all are better than no trees, even if they don't produce food.
- Another terrific article about chickens by one of my favorite farmers, Carol Ann Sayle. She writes about Austin's Funky Chicken Coop Tour.
- Here's an absolutely fantastic not to miss post about Food Inc, the new documentary coming out in a few months. By the way, the blog that posted the terrific article on the film is a blog for another upcoming documentary on food, The Greenhorns, a film about young farmers. Last week I met the incredible Severine Fleming, the film's directors. I definitely recommend checking out her blog and her film.
- Here are instructions for using coffee grounds as fertilizer.
- Want to see a scary animation showing how quickly animals are killed in a slaughterhouse? Check this out.
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| Jill Richardson :: Sampler Platter |
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