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by: ojodeltigre

I am a tiger.......son of Tony

 
 

 

My signature wrestling move: 
Tiger Stripe Skull Cracker (whole wheat)
My Motto: 
and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
Favorite movies: 
28 Days Later
Fight Club
All Kevin Costner Post-Apocalyptic films
Rocky III
Inspirational reading: 

The interests of the working class require democracy no less than Socialism. Labor can attain to the former sooner than to the latter, for other laboring classes, such as artisans and peasants, as well as many intellectuals, are equally interested in the development of democracy.

In the struggle for democracy and its immediate class interests, necessitating social reforms, the working class is lifted from primitive barbarism to higher forms. The consequences of this struggle creates a more fertile ground upon which the enlightened working classes, acting in organized masses, continues to develop its powers by means of free action and movement, thus lifting its development to the highest possible degree and rendering itself capable of pursuing successfully the struggle for the final aims of Socialism.

----Karl Kautsky on socialist democracy

Where I buy groceries: 
Seward Co-op
Groups I belong to: 
Interests: 
fair trade
Cooperative Economies
Socialist Democracy
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Chiquita-financed murder update.
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So - looks like Chiquita isn't out of the forest yet on being held accountable for financing, aiding, and abetting the intimidation, ...
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Chiquita-financed murder update.
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Well looks like this dude will still get to keep his shirt afteral...
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Buckle Up Banana Lovers - Wal-Mart is starting a Price War
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This is really playing out well for Wal-Mart. They have Transfair in their mits - using Paul Rice as a mouthpiece for Sam's Club...then on the other end they are building the most threatening WMD the banana world has ever ...
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BANANAS: how many social injustices does it take to break a world record?
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Let me get this right. Can Dole really tout themselves as both a fair trade banana importer  while simultaneously breaking the world record for the ...
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A Banana Republic Revolt is Turning a Stage 3
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So the linkage of Chiquita to the recent coup in Honduras maybe old news to folks, perhaps not even surprising for anyone that's aware of the term "Banana Republic" ...
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I gained ten pounds
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Minnesota's Own Makes It Big....Microwave Style?
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INDIANA: Small Farmer Jobs Increase as Industry Takes a Nose Dive
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So, the buy local-buy organic movement is offering up a boon in the number of small farmers in Indiana. But what does the future hold when the state has one of the
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King Korn's Iron Fist
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Alright, I've come to accept the fact that throughout my formative years my developing body was doused in high fructose corn syrup, refined sugars, pesticides, and a plethora of other food toxins I can't spell and my computer's thesaurus won't have any suggestions for - I have moved on. ...
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Masked coffee drinkers unite!.....just not in Stillwater
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Thought I'd add this light-hearted "kitty stuck in the tree" story for the end of the week. It is a good reminder that your fighter masks (or even ...
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What a Crock.....pot
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you forgot Crockpot Cooking! While I asked for one as a graduation gift back in 1995 - I really think this is going to be the era of the crock pot comeback (70s...60s? not sure what it's coming back from). People will want to start ...
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Glorious Food Predictions for 2009
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to my ol' drinking buddy el dragon
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Fair Food Fight Recipe: Bourbon Old Fashioned with Satsuma
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preach on brother
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it's amazing it hasn't happened yet. Ill bring the organic popcorn for the front row seat for that bout.
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GMO vs Organic: Big Fight Coming
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goodnight dole
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I figure I've made things too complex...we need to go back to picture book format to really get to the heart of this topic...and I'm too tired for creative writing tonight: here's this rich
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Buckle Up Banana Lovers - Wal-Mart is starting a Price War
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oh yeah...and the Walton's
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family photo is another favorite to sling around on blogs.
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Buckle Up Banana Lovers - Wal-Mart is starting a Price War
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Elementary my dear Dragon
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"Fair Trade is virtually doomed, if not irrelevent already." My initial reason for the post was in reference to the problematic allowance of companies to offer fair trade, but even for a nominal amount of their product offerings - it's just a niche product to ...
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Buckle Up Banana Lovers - Wal-Mart is starting a Price War
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ditto. what "anonymous" said
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No really, Anonymous has all the points laid out, but it goes even deeper than that Look at what's happening in Europe with Asda supermarkets, bananas, and the implications for fair trade, Interestingly enough.......
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Buckle Up Banana Lovers - Wal-Mart is starting a Price War
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Laser etching my friend.....
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it's the latest in produce technology. gone are the days of tiny PLU stickers. Perhaps Kellog could just brand the actual corn
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Kellogg Co. Thinks You're a Total Moron
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New Dole - now packed with a conscience
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it's probably because they are fair trade now and the "new" Dole wants the world to see how truly horrible the "old" Dole was. The "new" Dole recognizes "old" Dole as persona non grata and ...
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Dole drops suit against "Bananas" documentary
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interesting strategy Mr. Mackey
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First he alienates new shoppers and the fence-riders by saying he sells a bunch of junk. Then he turns his guns on the core constituents that helped him dismantle the coop movement and monopolize the natural ...
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Whole Foods Hates Obama Health Care Plan
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Dole drops suit against "Bananas" documentary
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This just in from indieWIRE: "Dole Food Company, Inc. has announced that it is dismissing its defamation lawsuit against filmmakers Fredrik Gertten, Margarete Jangard and WG Film AB in the Los Angeles Superior ...
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Obama looking at restricting antibiotics in livestock as health policy
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Here's an interesting way to attack the mess created by containment feedlots (CAFOs) - skip the Ag Committee and address it as a health concern.  Specifically, "ban many routine uses of antibiotics in farm animals in hopes of reducing the spread of dangerous bacteria in humans."  That's ...
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Neighbor, Can You Spare a Plum?
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There's an interesting article in the NY Times today about sharing and foraging fruit in residential neighborhoods.  It reminded me of reading about
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The Co-op Takes on Film Distribution with "The Vanishing of the Bees"
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Fair Trade was created by farmers co-ops and facilitated by consumer co-ops, include The Co-op, owned by 3 million workers and members in the UK.  Operating many businesses, including conventional convenience stores, they have been a part of ...
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DailyKos takes cash from Master Race of Cows
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"...we combine DNA with TLC." I'm a big fan of the political blog DailyKos, the most popular blog of its type on the Net.  It's not only because their writers share a lot of my political perspectives, but because they have a lot ...
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Wall Street Sucks: The Fair Food Foundation is Dead
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In 2007, a lot of people in the fair food world were encouraged to hear that Oran B. Hesterman, who handled food policy granting for the Kellogg Foundation, was in the process of starting the Fair Food Foundation, dedicated to encouraging ...
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The Real Food Challenge Focuses Student Food Fighters
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Through my work, I've had the good fortune of speaking with the new generation of food activists on college campuses.  Student groups focused on food issues and fighting to change food purchasing policies on their campuses are exploding around the country.  Recently, I spoke at Carleton College in Northfield, ...
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LIVEBLOGGING FROM THE DOMESTIC FAIR TRADE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, Part II
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 No issue in agriculture is more controversial or more timely than immigration policy.  Immigrants do the largest amount of work in most areas of our food system, from the fields to the slaughterhouses, from the canneries to restaurants. The recent campaign of mega-raids by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE),
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LIVEBLOGGING FROM THE DOMESTIC FAIR TRADE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING
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Hello from Organic Valley HQ in La Farge, Wis. in the snowy hills of the Driftless Region.  I'm at the second official annual meeting of the Domestic Fair Trade Association, the ...
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Liveblogging from Provender II: The Man Behind the Charts
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Professor Phil Howard gets the third degree from Ojo del Tigre Ever seen one of those
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Chiquita-financed murder update.
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Chiquita BananaSo - looks like Chiquita isn't out of the forest yet on being held accountable for financing, aiding, and abetting the intimidation, kidnapping and murder in Columbia.

Chiquita paid the FARC to intimidate labor unions and sabotage rival growers as a means of “squashing competition and assuring defendants of an accommodating labor force,” the families said.

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Chiquita-financed murder update.
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Well looks like this dude will still get to keep his shirt afterall, another tragedy in all of this is that the real news is on the pages of produce rags.

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Buckle Up Banana Lovers - Wal-Mart is starting a Price War
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This is really playing out well for Wal-Mart. They have Transfair in their mits - using Paul Rice as a mouthpiece for Sam's Club...then on the other end they are building the most threatening WMD the banana world has ever known....the 39 cent/lb. banana.

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BANANAS: how many social injustices does it take to break a world record?
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Let me get this right. Can Dole really tout themselves as both a fair trade banana importer  while simultaneously breaking the world record for the largest banana display?

Seriously, it's worth watching the video - and check out the price on the heap of over 1,650 cases of bananas. Remember, this transpired in August 2009 NOT 1959.

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A Banana Republic Revolt is Turning a Stage 3
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So the linkage of Chiquita to the recent coup in Honduras maybe old news to folks, perhaps not even surprising for anyone that's aware of the term "Banana Republic" outside of a shopping mall setting.

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I gained ten pounds
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No kidding. Just looking at this site made me sick. Reminds me of an Onion headline a while back, something about meat being the number one condiment.

My brain isn't funtioning....those pictures are reminiscent of old B-horror/gore movies.

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Minnesota's Own Makes It Big....Microwave Style?
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Sno-Pac of Caledonia,MN has started producing microwaveble items for Ahold, Inc., a multi-national company based in Amsterdam.

Microwaveable frozen veggies....I guess, whatever keeps this locally-owned company running strong.

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INDIANA: Small Farmer Jobs Increase as Industry Takes a Nose Dive
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So, the buy local-buy organic movement is offering up a boon in the number of small farmers in Indiana. But what does the future hold when the state has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country? Could be further testemant to my ongoing theory that as times get tougher, community grows stronger? Buckle up Industrialized food system, the agrarian revolution is nigh.

 

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King Korn's Iron Fist
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Alright, I've come to accept the fact that throughout my formative years my developing body was doused in high fructose corn syrup, refined sugars, pesticides, and a plethora of other food toxins I can't spell and my computer's thesaurus won't have any suggestions for - I have moved on. But while this may be due to the early morning, pre-coffee mindset - I simply can't comprehend the amount of mercury that King Korn has wrought on my body.