CNN has a great piece about urban farming. The article is a really neat one about how African-Americans can reconnect with their roots and fight poverty via urban farming.
Wow! Check out what the NYT has to say about the National Animal ID System!! They quote farmers and ranchers saying things like:
"My main beef is that these proposed rules were developed by people sitting in their offices with no real knowledge of animal husbandry and small farms...
"I feel these regulations are draconian... and that lobbyists from corporate mega-agribusiness designed this program to destroy traditional small sustainable agriculture."
When Giannini started out, she arrived in the kitchen at 4 am every day to start cooking. She made her own refried beans, her own hamburger meat for tacos and sloppy joes, even her own ranch dressing. She cooked 20 turkeys at a time in an enormous kettle and served the meat with homemade mashed potatoes. A baker in the district made all the breads from scratch as well.
Can you even imagine? And now she serves crap like corn dogs to the kids.
Either my mind isn't dirty enough or... I don't know what. When I saw this Burger King ad, my brain didn't go where everyone else's brains went it seems.
Marion Nestle speaks up about food safety, offering up a fantastic food warning label from Bill Marler:
THE FDA INSPECTION MEANS NOTHING. THIS PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN A PATHOGENIC BACTERIA THAT CAN SEVERELY SICKEN OR KILL YOU AND/OR YOUR CHILD. HANDLE THIS PRODUCT WITH EXTREME CARE.
