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Mon May 04, 2009 at 06:00:00 AM PDT
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Here are the tasty morsels on my plate this morning:
- F is for France! The school lunch blog F is for French Fry reports that children in a French school dined on cucumbers with garlic and fine herbs; Basque chicken thigh with herbs, red and green bell peppers and olive oil; couscous; organic yogurt and an apple. You know, real food. This fantastic lunch cost $8.23 to produce, but the students pay less than half the cost (or less if they are from low-income families). THAT is what it looks like to care about the health of your children.
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- This past weekend was the Brooklyn Food Conference. I missed it but some kind person transcribed Dan Barber's speech so that those of us who weren't lucky enough to attend can enjoy it. (H/t The Ethicurean)
- Unilever is reducing sodium in 22,500 food products. Sooo is that a good thing? Does that make the food healthy, or does it make it junk with lower sodium?
- Remember those really incriminating videos of slaughterhouse workers torturing downer cows a while back? Well, the guilty slaughterhouse is now in legal trouble.
- Great find by The Ethicurean: maps showing organic farming by region. According to them, Florida kinda sucks (when compared with the rest of the country).
- When you've got nothing else going for you, try a PR stunt. That's what the National Egg Producers are doing. Civil Eats tells us they are trying to combat their post-Easter sales slump by declaring May National Egg Month. They aren't losing my business because I'm waiting for a special month devoted to eggs, they lose it because they treat the birds like crap and produce an inferior product.
- Last week, the White House Garden had its first harvest.
- Fantastic piece by U.S. Food Policy. You know the U.S. dietary guidelines that you read about on every single nutrition label? Well, they get updated every so often, and they're due up again in 2010. U.S. Food Policy tells us how they are getting ready for it.
- Alternet says that the White House Garden has started a new "farms race." Ha! (And our blog gets a mention in the article!)
- Here's another depressing article about a potential world without fish and how it is closer than we think.
- Consumers Union sent foodborne illness victims to Congress to ask them to improve our food safety.
- The Green Fork treats us to an interview with two young farmers who started farming on the cheap.
- I really enjoyed this article in The Atlantic that tells about the social implications of going vegetarian. It's true. The challenge isn't just coming up with new recipes and fighting meat cravings. You often end up fighting friends and family too. I worked with one particular asshole about a year ago who liked to wave steak in front of my face at business dinners and go "Mmmm! Steak! Don't you want some?" Somehow he never got that it wasn't funny.
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