Farm to Table
SOS: Save Our Salmon June 17th, 2008
Our Wild Salmon Are In Trouble
Along with gas and food, salmon is going for record high prices this year, $40 a pound for a filet. The reason: the commercial season for Chinook salmon in California and Oregon was canceled because...more
Saving The World One Plate At A Time June 10th, 2008
Reduce Carbon Emissions At Every Meal
Choosing climate-healthy foods at the grocery store, with never-ending aisles of packaged foods, overflowing bins of produce from around the world, and walls of stocked freezer cases, presents an obvious challenge. But, a new study,...more
Compliments of the Farmer: Local Cuisine at Blue Hill Restaurant in Manhattan June 6th, 2008
Sitting down to dine at Blue Hill Restaurant, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, you'll have the chance to meet all the people who make your meal happen: the host, your waiter, perhaps the chef... and your...more
Greener Eating: Look for Grass-Fed Meat May 26th, 2008
Be A Compassionate Carnivore
The chickens at Kris Hirth’s Old Pine Farm in Manchester, MI spend their time strutting around the farm, happily ruffling their feathers and ignoring barn cats. Instead of being cooped up in a huge CAFO...more
Something's Killing the Bees -- and Your Diet Will Suffer May 16th, 2008
New Film Looks at Vanishing Bees and the Threat to the Food SUpply
A work-in-progress documentary The Vanishing of the Bees is following the current collapse of bee colonies around the world. In short, bee colonies are being plagued by Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) when adult bees leave...more
Book Review: Trespassing May 8th, 2008
A Glimpse Into Life Near A Southeast Michigan CAFO
Recently, Wayne State University Press published “Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes” by Janet Kaufman, a professor of English at Eastern Michigan University. It’s a combination of short stories and essays inspired by Kaufman’s experience...more
The Whole Hog May 6th, 2008
More Pig News
The blog post about Pigs As Pesticides has gotten quite a response. So, in the spirit of Porky, Babe, Wilbur, here’s more news in the world of pigs. Handel’s Hog Heaven Pigs, it seems, are...more
Want to Feed the World? April 24th, 2008
Become a Vegetarian
While we’re all scrambling to figure out how to deal with the rising cost of food, there’s one statistic that may be a solution: according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 2.13 billion tons...more
PCBs To GM Seeds To rBGH April 18th, 2008
The "Seed Police" Expands Into Milk
Imagine that you’re a farmer. You’re working the land in rural America, dutifully planting the corn seeds that you think are best (those you’ve saved generation after generation, without genetic modifications). Only one day, you...more
