Food manufacturers. The more I read about America's insane-asylum of a food system, the more I'm convinced that food manufacturers are head honchos at the ol' loony bin. Yes, farmers and consumers each have their role in creating a bizarre food system, but more than any other figures, food manufacturers, as captains of the food industry, are responsible for keeping prices high, driving prices down to farmers in order to steer marketing into absurd, bull-goose bozoland. Read more...
"The "Boycott Whole Foods" Facebook page is up to 20,000+ members and the internet is still buzzing with WFM-shopper furor, pundit punditry, and what this all means for Obama, health care, and no less than the First Amendment. Read more...
(I posted this in comments to Luchadora Felina, but I'm making it its own post since it veers off in a slightly different direction.) Read more...
(This blog post is a reworking of a comment I left on True Mosquito's post on the same subject.)
Cylone Dairy, which has been splashing itself across the internet of late, is obviously the first act of a "slick" internet marketing campaign to get people talking about cloning. For the record, I'm all for having that discussion. Read more...