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Chem-clouds, Pregnancy, & The Organic Ah Ha
Why do YOU buy organic food? Why do people buy organic food? I don’t mean “what reasons do they have?” – there are plenty of articles covering the whys and wherefores of buying organic. I’m talking...
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Corn Garden
Via Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI). Compare the White House’s Spring 2011 Kitchen Garden with what KGI calls the “subsidy garden,” and you can see (from the graphic), What the White House garden...
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Grocery Co-op Preserves 865 Acres Farmland
Via PCC (Puget Sound Consumer Co-op in Washington): Today, PCC Farmland Trust and USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) finalized a deal to permanently preserve a 300 acre portion of the...
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Raw Milk = Raw Deal?
You may have heard that a raw-milk seller called Rawesome in Venice, California, was the target of a police raid yesterday. The story got huge traction when, on the Forbes blog American Times, E. D....
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Farming: YOU CANNOT LOSE
Get Rich Quick with Farming This one goes out to all my farmer friends out there, slaving away in the lucrative August heat…just remember what you’re in it for, amigos. “Farming” sketch from the UK’s...
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NYT vs Bourdain vs Deen
Anthony Bourdain, Fair Food Fighter The Anthony Bourdain vs Paula Deen “food fight” has gotten so loud and fun that even the normally staid NYT wants to join the fray (which means the fight’s probably...
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TAKE THE FAIR FOOD FIGHT OATH!
Feliz Navidad, luchadores! Wrestling Mask? Yes. Steroids? Injected… Boots? Standing tall on the throats of tyranny. Mic? Lowering to the announcer [MIC CHECK!]… Fair Food Fight is back and the ring is...
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Cork That Wine!
Red wine is heart healthy, as everyone knows. After all, scientists at the cardiovascular research center in the University of Connecticut proved wine’s cardio benefits years ago. From CBS News: UConn...
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Re-enter the Dragon
2012: The Year of the Dragon 2011 was a rough year for Your Humble Blogger El Dragón. Posting has been sparse here, because Fair Food Fight had to be put on hold as sponsor and good pals at Equal...
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GREEN MOUNTAIN? PLEASE LEAVE FAIR TRADE USA
Make like a baby... Open Letter to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters From Equal Exchange: “Please Leave Fair Trade USA” WEST BRIDGEWATER, MA―May 20, 2012―In a rare business-to-business plea Equal...
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Smithfield: Let’s Cannibalize Paula Deen
Slavery is funny! Remember the ending of Jurassic Park? When the velociraptors take down the T Rex in a feeding frenzy of dino-cannibalism. Well, check this out: Smithfield Foods severs ties with Paula...
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SNAP GOES THE FARM BILL
Most people don’t understand the Farm Bill. Why? Because they are sane, well-adjusted people who have social lives. Anyone who understands the Farm Bill AND can explain it, is insane, maladjusted, and...
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Know Your Farmworker
Can you name a local farmworker? I’m going to devote more time to farmworker issues on Fair Food Fight. Serious question coming at you: Am I wasting my time? On one hand, farmworkers are at the front...
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