Posts under ‘politics’

In a Burlington Free Press article, The Price of Fresh: Author questions tradeoffs of ‘fresh’ food and localvore eating, Free Press correspondent Melissa Pasanen describes a talk by Dartmouth College professor and author Susanne Freidberg. Susanne Freidberg has written a book called Fresh, which, this article suggests, implies there are unintended consequences from the local [...]

I went to Meet the Author, David Gumpert at Molten Java in Bethel. Gumpert wrote The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights. Not a bad crowd for 6 PM on a Wednesday—farmers, consumers, raw milk advocates, bloggers, journalists, locavores, children, and avid readers. David Gumpert was warmly introduced by Ed Hertz [...]

Molten Java Coffee Roasters in Bethel, CT is hosting Meet the Author with David Gumpert, author of The Raw Milk Revolution. Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 6 PM. Molten Java is at 102 Greenwood Avenue, Bethel, CT 203-791-9747 The event is co-sponsored by Relay Bookhouse (next door) and the Milkmen USA. There’s also a great [...]

A New York Times article, Push to Eat Local Food Is Hampered by Shortage, points out the shortage of slaughterhouses (more tastefully described as abattoirs). With the demand for local food and the decline of slaughterhouses (nationally, we had 1,211 in 1992 and 809 in 2008), chefs and foodies are feeling the pain. Brian Moyer, [...]

I was poking around the Web and came upon this gem. Enjoy!

I’m always telling folks to know where their food comes from and to ask their farmers. But what can you do when the farmer lies? Like in this case, both the Food Network and the White House Garden fail the transparency test. See what happens when hype and political opportunity get out of hand. Perhaps [...]

In a post the other day about raw milk, I mentioned this small dairy farm in Canada being harassed by Fraser Health on a consistent basis. I wondered why people would take the time to go after small dairies (whose customers deliberately go out of their way to purchase raw milk) and asked, “Qui bono?” [...]

I drink raw milk and it fascinates me that there is so much controversy over this liquid that has been in the human diet for thousands of years. I don’t understand why the people who are against it simply don’t drink it and go on about their business. Why are they so hell-bent on trying [...]

There’s an interesting article over at The Ethicurean: “The Failure of Science”: New paper makes a damning case against genetically modified food crops. In [the paper] Don Lotter, a UC-Davis trained scientist, makes a persuasive case that the transgenic seed industry is built on fundamentally flawed science, and that companies like Monsanto have used their [...]

I can’t wait until this movie comes to a theater near me: According to the Official Food, Inc. Movie Site: In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, [...]