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Fri May 08, 2009 at 17:07:34 PM PDT
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- Tomorrow, May 9 is the National Association of Letter Carriers' annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive, the largest annual single-day food drive in the US. I don't have much myself these days, but I'm going to leave out my little bag with a couple cans of Eden Organic kidney beans by my mailbox for tomorrow morning. You can find out how to help here; and as always, Feeding America can use your donations or help you find a local volunteer opportunity here.
- Over at Civil Eats, Kerry Trueman interviews James Howard Kunstler.
- Deborah Lehmann takes a look at the school food bills currently in the US House and Senate.
- The Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project, a local foods project here in Oregon started up in 2008 by Harry MacCormack, a long-time Corvallis organic farmer and co-founder of Oregon Tilth, is working towards convincing conventional large-scale grass-seed growers to transition towards growing beans and grains organically for local markets.
- Not quite sure what to make of this, but Oprah's KFC promotion didn't quite seem to work out well for anybody involved...
- Wow - the Texas State Legislature has joined New York and California in banning the use of trans fats by restaurants. Also, Minnesota today officially banned the use of BPA in plastic baby bottles and cups.
- Cognitive dissonance reigns in Ken Salazar's Interior Department, at least regarding the now-officially-listed-as-threatened polar bear. The American Petroleum Institute is cheered by today's ruling, however...
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