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Mon Jul 02, 2012 at 00:58:23 AM PDT
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Now that my book's written, I don't even know what to do with myself during all of the extra time I've got! I turned the whole thing into the editor on Thursday, and I won't hear a peep from her about edits for something like a month. So how about a Sampler Platter?
- Fooducate has a really awesome four part series on buying bread. My favorite is the last installment, which tells five ingredients you should always avoid.
- Hey, have you heard of that awesome Master Cleanse thing where you just drink lemonade for like two weeks? Yeah, well - it's bogus. THANK YOU FOODUCATE.
- A calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Not. Here's a really smart post from Civil Eats telling why all calories are not equal when it comes to weight loss. The controversy isn't all sorted out yet, but it's probably safe to say that the jury isn't out about whether 500 calories from a Big Mac affect your body the same as 500 calories of whole grains, veggies, fruit, nuts, and legumes.
- Also from Civil Eats: a great piece on using Social Networking for Farm to School.
- Marion Nestle provides her own list of helpful links - to the PLoS series on Big Food. And there's more to come.
- The last of the GMO pigs (the "Enviropig" that poops less) are now gone for good... but now there are all kinds of GMO cows to think about. For example, cows that produce human breast milk, low lactose milk, or high omega-3 milk.
- Oops. Actually telling Americans which country their meat comes from is an unnecessary trade barrier that is a no-no under the WTO.
- Maine's the latest battleground in the raw milk fight.
- The headline says it all: 'Monsanto Protection Act' would keep GMO crops in the ground during legal battles.
- A reminder from Monsanto to use extra pesticides this year. Theoretically, you wouldn't need them if you planted Monsanto's Bt corn... but now scientists are finding Bt resistant pests so Bt corn alone won't take care of them. (Here is one article out of many recent ones written on this.)
- Also from Monsanto? A post about teaching farmers in Kenya to use hybrid seeds, fertilizer, and drip irrigation and to stop intercropping. By the way, I am pretty certain that the area where they did this was the part of the country with the best rainfall. Monsanto's also got a shiny new Corporate Sustainability Report.
- One more reason I love California: lindane shampoos have been banned here since 2002, whereas the rest of the country is still talking about banning them but not yet doing it. Lindane is a cousin of DDT and it's banned for most uses around the world and set for phasing out entirely. It's still occasionally used in head lice shampoos.
- We've got Farm to School - so how about Farm to Child Care?
- And... in honor of the Rio +20 summit that took place a little over a week ago, here's a Top 10 list for international negotiation terms for [in]action.
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| Jill Richardson :: Sampler Platter |
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