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Here's a letter-writing campaign that Fair Food Fight fully endorses. US Working Group on the Food Crisis says your action is needed by Thursday, December 31, 2009. Please act!
From their TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR FOOD campaign:
There are two million farmers and 300 million eaters in the United States. Standing between them are a handful of corporations who control how food gets from one side to the other.
Let’s change the equation. Read more...
The past three months have been very exciting for me. I started out my journey researching organic foods after seeing the movie Food, Inc. followed by the movie FRESH. Every week, I go to two different health food stores and try to buy healthy, organic food that is independently owned. You all already know that I am not buying products from giant agribusinesses. I almost have my grocery shopping down to a science. I buy a lot of dried fruit, nuts, wild salmon, chicken & local vegetables. I actually feel myself getting cranky in the store when I find a brand owned by Heinz or Coca Cola. I usually speak to the manager when there is an overabundance of General Mills....ahem....Muir Glen foods on the shelves. Read more...
You really have to wonder if a confined animal feedlot operation (CAFO) runs the planet. Case in point, what in the world does the owner of Excel Dairy in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, have to do before government officials smack him down?
Fair Food Fight reported on Excel Dairy back in 2008, when the dairy became the first CAFO in Minnesota to be declared a public health hazard -- so noxious and obnxious is Excel, that even the Minnesota Milk Producers Association hung them out to dry.) Read more...
There's a terrific post you should read by Rob B. Smart (who's whole blog Every Kitchen Table is must reading) titled Closing the Farm to Plate Knowledge Gap. In it, Rob addresses a growing tension between conventional farmers and "foodie" consumers in which both sides accuse the other of failing to understand the complexity and consequences of our food/farm system. Read more...
Food, Inc is the elephant, and we're all the proverbial blind folks feeling it up, trying to figure out what it is. Is it a lefty attack, a prophetic message, a gross-out, a commercial for organic food? Read more...
Final changes to H-2A agricultural guestworker program are out. This program, which covers just 2% of the farm workforce as a means to legitimize migrant labor in agriculture, has been in dire need of an overhaul for years, according to both pro-business and pro-migrant groups.
But these current revisions to the H-2A regulations are not pretty, according to Farmworker Justice: Read more...
File this one under Very Dubious Distinctions: Excel Dairy is the first feedlot in Minnesota to be declared a public health hazard.
But, hey. Before you fly off the handle and start casting aspersions on this poor 1000+ "animal unit" Cow City, which has been driving neighbors out of their homes due to a wretched, rotting egg, hydrogen sulfide smell, listen to the Mega Dairy's side of the story, ok? Read more...
