Farm/Garden Politics

My Rant On Garden Rant

August 30, 2010 Environment

Occasionally I guest blog on other blogs or sites. Today on GardenRant.com, the four gardening women orchestrating the Rant started a two week vacation/hiatus and will be running guest posts each day. I really appreciate they ran mine since Garden Rant is one of the premier sites about gardening. My post can be found here… [...]

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Alaskan Gardeners Recycle Plastic Pots

August 30, 2010 Environment

Once again, Alaskan gardeners have proven themselves to be above reproach, no matter what their former Governor does. Last weekend, they broke their own record at the Fourth Annual Nursery Pot Recycling event sponsored by The Alaska Botanical Garden and Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling, along with Anchorage waste hauler, Smurfit Stone. Over 4,600 [...]

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Greenwashing Biotech

August 30, 2010 Environment

If you are a regular reader of The Growing Edge, you know how I feel about genetically modified crops and that I don’t buy the public relations spin of “feeding the world.” Now the GM companies are introducing a new pr spin, “fueling the world” as Lucy Sharratt reports in CommonGround.ca,
Ten years ago, Monsanto tried [...]

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Illegal Front Yard Veggie Garden

August 28, 2010 Environment

As more and more people convert their lawns around their homes into food producing vegetable gardens, some cities haven’t changed their zoning codes to legally allow them as Graydon Megan reports for the Chicago Tribune,
A Northbrook, Illinois woman has found a better use for her front yard than a manicured lawn. She turned it into [...]

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Wishful Thinking: Frankenwheat To Feed The World

August 28, 2010 Environment

I have ranted before of my opinion on world hunger. I will say it again: It is not a problem of production or yield. It is a problem of industrialized, corporate for profit food companies controlling from seed to harvest the food that the world needs to feed the hungry. We throw away enough food [...]

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From Farm To Food Desert

August 26, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Topher Grey reports for ChicagoReader.com,
The sun beat down on the vegetable stand on 115th Street, across from St. John Missionary Baptist Church in far south Roseland. Fresh cantaloupes, yams, and tomatoes baked in the 90-degree heat. Three volunteers, organized by church leader Donnell Williams, waited patiently for customers behind the table, sipping ice water. Sweat [...]

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Bad Eggs Could Be Just The Beginning

August 26, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics
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Largest Egg Recall In US History Brings Renewed Attention To Dangers Of Industrial Farming

August 24, 2010 Environment

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! reports,
The largest egg recall in US history is bringing renewed attention to the dangers of factory farming and to growing consolidation in the industries responsible for the food many Americans eat. Over half a billion eggs have been ordered off US shelves in the past two weeks following an outbreak [...]

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All Hat, No Cattle… Biotech Crops Increasing Without Slowdown

August 23, 2010 Environment

This cattle raising bozo informs us he hasn’t met a chemical that he doesn’t love and to shut up, open our mouths while he force feeds us to consume those shitty GMOs…
Keep trying to stop progress you anti-biotech fanatics. It won’t work! Those of us who support biotech and believe in its ability to improve [...]

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Industrial Agriculture

August 23, 2010 Environment

We hear it all the time; industrial agriculture flacks on the teevee boasting about “feeding the world.” Well, as we are seeing with the 550 million egg recall, and previous recalls on beef and other fresh produce items, what good is it producing all the food that they boast about if nobody can eat it? [...]

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