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  • Which is worse?

    Which is worse: malnourishment, starvation, and suicide, or obesity? The author of ''In the Test Fields'' writes in detail about the devestating problems that small farmers face and their inability to deliver food to the population. If the government allows the market to work, large corporations will take over farms, managing them efficiently ...
    Posted to Dispatches by graf.shepherd on August 6, 2008

  • Lack of Migrant Workers Threatens Food Diversity

    I'm glad you referenced the May 27 NYTimes article, With Migrant Workers in Short Supply, A Farmer Looks to Machines, the reporter tells the story of Jim Bittner, a farmer in upstate New York who cut down 25 acres of cherry trees because he was concerned he wouldn’t have enough workers to harvest the fruit. This caught my attention for two reasons ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Bootheel Girl on June 2, 2008

  • So Buy Local

    Higher prices for expensive European fancy food can actually translate into an advantage for hardworking American cheesemakers and grass-fed meat producers, at least in the Northeast. Because these folks farm with fewer petroleum-based inputs and let their animals eat pasture, the price of sunlight is holding steady, their products are not ...
    Posted to Moneybox by LadyAmerican on May 1, 2008

  • "Growing" Fake Meat

    LOL - aren't these the same knuckheads that are protesting against genetically altered crops? (They're all for not killing an animal, but genetically altered crops could save human lives.)
    Posted to Human Nature by LivingLgInSoCal on April 23, 2008