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Original Technorati articles tagged “food politics”

• in Technorati Women
  Is What You Eat Your Choice?
  Being "force fed" is un-American. Is what we eat no longer a personal choice?
  by sweaterart / on Jun 4, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Quinoa - Does This Trendy Food Have Unintended Consequences?
  Quinoa is only a superfood for those who can afford it.
  by sweaterart / on May 14, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Flavor vs A Fatter You
  Don't let the food industry create your craving. This is not "better living through chemistry".
  by sweaterart / on Nov 29, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “food politics”

 

• Unionizing fast-food workers. :rolling eyes: Yeah, *that’ll* fly.

  
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  I just deleted a eight paragraph post on this account of what will be a doomed attempt to organize fast food workers in Detroit (yeah, I know: the timing was perfect , huh?).  As you might guess, I was not impressed with their chances for success; alas, I was also boring, so I just deleted the whole dang thing.  ...
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• Even in Good-Food-Obsessed Berkeley, High School Students Eat Junk

  
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  Alice, Michelle... thoughts? Despite the nearby influence of Alice Waters and her Edible Schoolyard Project , students at Berkeley High School, by and large, eat like crap. A new piece in the San Francisco Chronicle notes that Berkeley High, like one in three high schools in America, allows students off campus ...
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• Bee Deaths Create Crisis for Crops

  
  Food Renegade — Authority: 466
  Our nations bees are vanishing. Every winter for the last six years, more than a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have simply ... gone. Now the decimated bee population has finally reached critical mass. According to an industry wide survey, there will no longer be enough bees in the U.S. to pollinate our almond, ...
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• Dr. Katz and America’s “Fat” Week

  
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  Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy “If you’re not obsessed with food and, for that matter, sex, you’re not really normal. Because food and sex are about survival and obsession with them is hard-wired into us. Food is about surviving in our own lifetime. Sex ...
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• KQED Quest on GMOs

  
  Biofortified — Authority: 532
  KQED Quest , based in San Francisco, has just posted a half-hour special on GMOs called Next Meal: Engineering your Food , by Gabriela Quirós. In the wake of proposition 37 in California there has been a lot more public awareness of genetically engineered crops, but little public education about it. (Just think ...
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• Food Shaming – Obsessing Over Food, Wondering How Anything Makes it to the Plate

  
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  Food Shaming happens when we become too self-involved with what’s on our plates, that meals must reflect a personal manifesto and as a result, we lose sight of the fact that there’s a much bigger picture to be seen over the role food has in lives outside our own. By Denise Sakaki I took the time to peruse ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hybrid Seeds vs. GMOs

  
  Food Renegade — Authority: 466
  Hybrid Seeds. Genetically-modified (GMO) seeds. Heirloom seeds. The labels often confuse people. Not a single day passes without some well-meaning reader leaving a comment like this one: "GMOs are perfectly safe. Farmers and gardeners have been cross-breeding seeds like this for thousands of years. Take off your ...
  2 weeks ago

• Laugh or Cry? Pollan and Moss Face Up to a Challenge

  
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  The [New York Times] Dining section had brought together Mr. Pollan (whose latest book, “Cooked,” was published last week) and Mr. Moss to make a tasty, reasonably healthy lunch. But there was a stipulation: they had to use ingredients that … Continue reading →
  2 weeks ago

• So you want to document farm abuses?

  
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  Filed under: Business & Technology , Food , Politics
  3 weeks ago

• Two views on ag-gags: The investigator and the farm advocate

  
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  “Farm protection” or “ag-gag” laws aim to outlaw the kinds of undercover investigations that have resulted in massive meat recalls, plant closures, and even criminal charges. Specifically, they’re designed to deter the kind of work done by people like Lindsay. For two years Lindsay (not her real name) has ...
  3 weeks ago

• Michael Pollans Cooked

  
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  The other instant bestseller of interest out yesterday is Michael Pollans Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation [Kindle]. Its his seventh book and, yes, weve been here before with other authors, but as a nature writer Pollan is going to make his usual interesting connections between your kitchen and the...
  3 weeks ago

• The state(s) of the ag-gag

  
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  Over the past few years, farm protection or ag-gag laws have sprouted faster than Monsanto Roundup-Ready corn. Some of the laws are highly restrictive, while others are pretty lax. Roll over the different states for specific info on each law. This embed is invalid ">"> Filed ...
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• Troubled slaughter: Big Ag fights to keep out prying eyes

  
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  There’s a Paul McCartney quote popular with veg-heads: “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” It may not be quite as simple as all that, but he’s definitely got a point. For a little over 10 years, groups such as Mercy for Animals, the Humane Society of the United States, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Yes On 522 Launches Campaign To Label GMO Foods

  
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  Press Release: Today marks the launch of the Yes on 522 – the campaign to label genetically engineered foods. Yes on 522 kicks off with strong and widespread support from around the state and, to date, has raised more than $1 million. Earlier this year a committed group of concerned citizens brought together ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Moms Food Manifesto: Ten Simple Ways We Can Change the Food System

  
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• earth day 2013

  
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  every day should of course be planet earth day.with kindness and compassion.stop this crazy addiction called meat eating, like theres no tomorrow. at this meat eating rate there will be no tomorrow.make kind and healthy everyday choices.say no to specieism.eat your veggies.cuddle a furry friend.have a pastry.happy ...
  4 weeks ago

• [links] Link salad wishes happy birthday to its mother

  
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  Debut author lessons: Hate mail — Mary Robinette Kowal Is Wise. Writers Workshop of Science Fiction & Fantasy Available! — In which I have an essay. Temple of the Autonomous Machine — Okay, this story about the intersection of robotics and archaeology is just fricking cool . Happiness Inc. — ...
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• Beyond Street Food, Dépanneur Cuisine

  
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  Absence, they say, makes the heart grow fonder, and after 65 years of street food prohibition, Montrealers’ fascination with these illicit eats has reached fever-pitch. Like many Montrealers, I was thrilled when I heard that  food trucks will once again hit the streets  as of June 20th. The City’s pilot project ...
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• March Against Monsanto: Saturday, May 25th

  
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  On Saturday, May 25th, people are taking to the streets to express their disgust and outrage for Monsanto, the multinational corporation that is poisoning our planet and ruining our food supply. It’s time to take back our food. It’s time to March Against Monsanto. I will be attending the March Against ...
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• The Senate is Pathertic (2)

  
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  Yet another fine advert underscoring the idiocy of gun rights fundamentalists and their political minions in Congress. And, before critics bellow about the second amendment, lets recall all of the restrictions on first amendment rights - speech and assembly especially - that they willingly tolerate every single day. ...
  4 weeks ago

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