The vote is coming up in November, and activists in WA are preparing. A similar bill failed passage in California--but barely---after corporate entities in opposition spent about $45 million to stop it.
Read more about Yes right here.
On June 1, the Connecticut Senate passed a compromise labelin…
The Food Foto Gallery allows you to gorge-----on the food pix of others, or your own. Mega masses of food pix. From soup to nuts, as it were. Pictured? Homemade tortillas.
Iowa decently/humanely raised pigs are making an Italian ham delicacy into an American reality, with a little help from their friends, Kathy and Herb Eckhouse.
According to this piece in the NYTimes, “It was a crazy idea, but we didn’t think it was a stupid idea,” says Herb Eckhouse..."
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Yes, this coming weekend, please kiss the organizers of your local farmers/growers market, because their gift to you is immense, no?
And, if you need to find a farmers market for yourself, or a pal/family member, search this list compiled by the USDA.
Photo Portland Farmers Market, Maine
"Tax incentives should be expanded to prompt restaurants, grocery stores and farmers to donate excess food to the hungry and cut into the estimated 70 billion pounds of food that goes to waste each year, U.S. senators including Patrick Leahy say in proposing such an expansion."
According to the AP…
"Coca-Cola’s recently launched global anti-obesity campaign—“global commitments to help fighting obesity”— pledges to expand calorie labelling to all of its products, and to give consumers a broad range of low-calorie soft drink options."
There's a catch, right?
Yes.
"The idea that “a c…
"The world’s first test tube burger will be served at an exclusive London venue this week - with a price tag of £250,000."
( Can't actually buy this to eat, people, for another several years...that's the cost of the prototype.)
"The 5oz burger is made of synthetic meat grown from the stem cel…
Via Yahoo News: "...several California wildlife researchers reported that pot farms are wreaking havoc on wildlife ranging from endangered salmon to black bears..." "...grow ops near just one small tributary of the Eel River were siphoning up to 18 million gallons of water from the river’s water…
You missed Novosyolki's Raspberry Festival, the International Cucumber Festival in Suzdal just finished, but make a note of two more: the Syzran Tomato Fair is August 24, and a week later Lukh celebrates the flat-topped onion bulb, apparently a fave of Ivan the Terrible.
And for more go here.
Yes, it's happening. The first phase of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum's new home, its Culinary Library, will open this October.
But before that, check out President Liz Williams' latest entry in her saga, The Meat of the Matter: Making a Food Museum, exclusive to The FOOD Museum, right h…
Mother Earth News explores how apprenticeships are helping small farms thrive. Photo via Young Farmers.
Via The Guardian: "Calls for the doctors who force-feed hunger-striking prisoners at Guantánamo Bay to refuse to perform the practice on ethical grounds have got nowhere, a spokesman for the prison said on Thursday.
No doctors, nurses or corpsman had balked at feeding the prisoners or even voi…
Really? That's right up there with "Breathe the Air Day," isn't it? Come on, people. Veggies r us. Silly.
( Pictured are okonomiyaki, Japanese veggie pancakes.)
From The Guardian: "The wettest autumn since records began, followed by the coldest spring in 50 years, has devastated British wheat, forcing food manufacturers to import nearly 2.5m tonnes of the crop.
"Normally we export around 2.5m tonnes of wheat but this year we expect to have to impor…
Via National:
"A class action lawsuit was filed this week on behalf of Pacific Northwest wheat farmers and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) after Oregon wheat farmers suffered depressed wheat prices for their crops following the discovery of allegedly illegal genetically engineered, glyphosate-resi…
A Kansas wheat farmer is suing Monsanto in advance of his harvest because when an Oregon farmer found "Roundup Ready" wheat growing in his field, wheat buyers from Japan and South Korea immediately suspended all purchases of US wheat.
Predictably, Monsanto, which stopped development of this wheat…
Oy! Mazeltov, good spellers! And some recipes for the winning word in the National Spelling Bee are right here.
So, yeah, you, too, can create VW Logo toast, if you can get your hands on one of these rarified toasters. Laughing Squid has the story 
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