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Tue May 05, 2009 at 08:00:00 AM PDT
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- Gene Logsdon, author of Small-Scale Grain Raising (an absolutely delightful book that I will review soon), says it's time to start growing your own bread. (H/t Natasha)
- The Gates Foundation is funding GM pharma tomatoes. Blah. I hate them.
- Is it really Michelle Obama who deserves credit for an increase in seed sales for the second year in a row, or is it high food prices and a shitty economy? I don't know about you but now that I've got no job, I've got a lot more time for gardening and a lot less money for food!
- "What will party-hopping Arlen Specter do about food/ag policy?" asks Obama Foodorama. My hunch is that we will see no change in his positions, which tend to be middle of the road according to conventional wisdom and very frustrating according to me (now why won't he support EFCA???).
- LOL, the legislators of West Virginia (a.k.a. the 5th fattest state in the U.S.) killed a menu labeling bill while eating junk food and got caught on video. Sometimes YouTube is a really great thing.
- After the peanut disaster, Georgia has a new food safety law.
- Get Fooducated about salad dressing and then learn to make your own. Even simple olive oil and lemon juice or balsamic vinegar will do the job. Apparently most store-bought salad dressings are kind of a scam when you actually look at the ingredients.
- California's school lunch funding is in trouble. Although, to be fair, so is everything else in the CA state budget. Our state is just f*ing broke. Why can't we tax all the movie stars, or something?
- Black farmers rallied in DC last week, asking the USDA to shed its nickname "the last plantation" and finally compensate them fairly.
- According to research by ConAgra, ConAgra's Healthy Choice brand products are very healthy! Mmm hmm. And last week I heard from Coca-Cola's researchers that sodas are excellent at hydrating you and you need more than 9 cups a day. So why don't you wash down your Healthy Choice meal with a Coke?
- The food industry wants to monitor itself for ethical behavior. But Marion Nestle disagrees that industry self-regulation is the way to go. How about some independent oversight?
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