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[If you missed Part 1, go here.] The Organic Movement Most people are vaguely familiar with the counterculture roots of the organic movement. It’s a success story (perhaps too much of one for those who believe that small is beautiful). A couple of decades ago, the organic section of the average grocery store consisted of a bin [...] October 7th, 2009 | Tags: Agriculture, food, local, locavore, organic, pollan, profood, slowfood, sustainability | Category: Food Movement | Leave a comment
Norman Borlaug If you haven’t read about Norman Borlaug you can get quickly caught up here and here and here. I’ll extract a key bit from the article in The Age: ”Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the Earth, but many of them are elitists,” [Borlaug] told the [...] September 15th, 2009 | Tags: Agriculture, borlaug, gmo, sustainability | Category: Agriculture, GMOs | One comment - Add yours
So you’re not a fan of genetically engineered food. What can you do about it besides buying organic? Well, recently I bloggified the results of several weeks worth of research on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In the course of doing all that research I got a pretty good sense of what would most annoy GMO-peddling [...] August 4th, 2009 | Tags: Agriculture, food, gm, gmo, monsanto, slowfood | Category: GMOs | Leave a comment
The air was warm and stagnant. Flies bounced lazily off the windowpanes. Attorneys wiped sweat from their brow. Canada farmer Percy Schmeizer stood nervously as the judge entered the courtroom and prepared to deliver the verdict. Okay, that’s not what actually happened. I wasn’t there. That’s just how I imagine it. In 2004 the Supreme Court [...] |
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