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Sat May 23, 2009 at 15:42:28 PM PDT
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- New York is trying to bring grocery stores to food deserts. Yay! If they find a successful method of doing this, let's hope other cities steal their ideas.
- Interested in what Americans ate during the first Great Depression? Apparently beavers and squirrels were on the menu (hat tip to GastroNomalies)
- Vilsack plays dumb. Swine flu? Never heard of it. He only knows about the H1N1 flu. Riiight.
- Meanwhile, while the swine flu story is over for most of us, it's not over at the implicated Mexican Smithfield operation, which is still very invested in proving its innocence. Especially because its being sued.
- Why a school farm? The Atlantic has some ideas.
- Ever tried Mongolian cuisine? Most of us have probably never even thought about it. I had the opportunity to try some - once - and oh my god, I turned that opportunity down. When I lived in China I had 2 friends from Inner Mongolia. After a trip home, they returned to Beijing with a "treat" for me - some "Mongolian dairy snacks" as they put it. And that was NOT something I was interested in eating. The "snacks" were approximately the size and shape of Cheetos but they were white and looked moist. And there was no freaking way I was putting them in my mouth. I ate dog and testicles in China, but I had to draw the line somewhere. My friends wanted to see me taste them but I awkwardly explained that I wanted to share them with other Americans so I'd taste them later. Fortunately, the food described in this article sounds a bit more appetizing.
- BlogHer is having a foodie conference.
- Yay to the Center for Food Safety, who says that reliance on biotech in a food aid bill is a step in the wrong direction.
- IATP cleverly writes about "seeing the forest through the corn." With a title like that, you KNOW they are talking about Iowa - and a forest in Iowa that is home to many endangered and threatened species.
- In Israel, owls are replacing chemicals to do the job of pest control. Very cool!
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Sun Apr 26, 2009 at 10:32:48 AM PDT
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From the land of the counterfeiters and melamine-tainted foodstuffs we have another doozy: a fake Israeli orange made in China! I have been following this story for a couple of days and I have to say that it was like reading a bad James Bond plot: Israeli citrus fruit has reportedly been sold in Iran in defiance of a ban on commercial dealings between the two enemy states (this is when Iranian policy regarding Israel becomes farcical!)
Cross-posted on the Big Orange!
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Tue Dec 30, 2008 at 12:20:34 PM PST
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This is my last Water News diary for the year and I'd like to take the opportunity to remind all the fighting I/P posters that the Middle East, where a few great waterways are the major source of water for a large area of dry lands spanning a number of national borders, the scarcity of water has played a central role in defining the political relationships in the region for thousands of years. Its ideological, religious, and geographical disputes go hand in hand with water-related tensions and it is becoming abundantly clear that the incoming administration of Barack Obama will have to deal swiftly with the powers of the region as the water crisis is not limited to the Jordan basin, but extends throughout the Middle East, encompassing also the watersheds of the Nile and the Tigris-Euphrates. Because of water's preeminent role in survival (Israel depends on fresh water resources originating in the occupied territories for about one-third of its total supply) the parched and volatile Middle East must be dealt with because the fact is that the region is running out of water. The people who have built their lives on what was once a reliable source of fresh water are now seeing a shortage of this vital resource impinge on all aspects of their increasingly fragile relations.
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