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Crop Subsidies = dinner?

Imagine if we had to live only on the foods that our government subsidizes for the crops from the Food and Farm Bill?
The “subsidy garden” reflects the $11 billion per year spent on BIG AG.
The subsidy garden consists of:

corn
wheat
rice
cotton
soybeans
tobacco
sorghum
canola
sunflower

Which would you prefer for your dinner?
Imagine if that $11 billion went to the smaller crops and [...]

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Four Fish

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg discusses the relationship that humans have with domestic and wild fish and the problems that arise from the urge to control the ocean.
Farmed Fish!
I have never considered eating them as an option, but (perhaps!) Greenburg is forcing me to reconsider this. [...]

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Organic Food Industry

The organic industry has grown 20% per year in the last 10 years, hitting $20 billion last year in sales. By and large, the increase of supply is coming from the imported industry. Despite the increase, our food is not any safer or better because of this increase – this according to Mischa Popoff, IOIA [...]

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Organic, pastured, or certified humanely-raised?

I have just returned from the Berkshires where I was assisting John Bagnulo in a “bootcamp”  cleanse called Deep Spring Clean.  Last week, in one of the classes, we were reviewing organic practices by the industry.
While many of us believe we are offering our families the best by buying organic, I caution against blindly purchasing [...]

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