From the category archives:

Food Industry

Monsanto: What are we eating?

Why are there so many campaigns against Monsanto? The Organic Consumers Association’s “Millions Against Monsanto” campaign “Occupy Monsanto” The most recent “March Against Monsanto” Monsanto’s first product was the artificial sweetener, saccharin, later found to cause cancer in lab rats, yet is still sold today as Sweet’N Low (Kitchen Porch Catering refuses to serve this [...]

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GMO Breakdown

The most dangerous threat facing our food supply is Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). GMOs are the result when scientists take the DNA of one species and force it into the DNA of another. Food is taken from its most natural whole state and turned into a science experiment. Scientists have created many genes that they [...]

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The Butcher’s Guild

My new friends Marissa Guggina and Tia Harrison, founders of The Butcher’s Guild. The Butcher’s Guild is a loosely organized national fraternity of butchers who are committed to breaking down whole animals — not prepackaged parts — and adhering to a particular moral code.  I am becoming a member of this organization. Only in California [...]

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Heirloom Tomatoes

Finally! We have an abundance of tomatoes and it is time to stock up and get to canning. The heirlooms are the tomatoes that have been passed down from season to season by way of seed saving. 50 years ago folks saved their seeds based on the characteristics they found favorable in the tomatoes that [...]

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