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by JL Wall One other aspect to the release of that British organic food nutrition study: one of the most maddening ways for conversations to descend to hell involves others accusing me of, essentially, wanting to bankrupt/lower the quality of life for everyone who makes less than $X thousand dollars a year. This doesn’t come [...]
Filed under: agriculture, food
There is still a need for people to contact their representatives concerning HR 2749.
Filed under: agriculture, food, government/law
A friend sends along this notice, from the blog of Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty: URGENT ACTION: Stop the NAIS, Anti-Family Farms Bill HR 2749, the All Industrial Agriculture bill, could be voted on in the House of Representatives Tuesday. Please call your Congressman immediately and request that he or she reject this bill. Normal [...]
Filed under: agriculture, food, government/law
by JL Wall E. coli outbreak requires a beef supplier to recall 420,000 pounds of its product. (Again.) Anyone surprised? And then we get this: The recall underscores the need for “a comprehensive animal identification system” that would allow meat suppliers to trace their products to an individual ranch, she said. No, it underscores the [...]
Filed under: agriculture, food
By H.C. Johns (Cross-posted at The Other Right) Many Wendell Berry fans, or at least those who have read the The Gift of Good Land, will understand why I am seriously pumped to read John Reader’s new book, Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent. Here’s a bit from the WaPo review: The Spanish transplanted the spud to Europe [...]
Filed under: agriculture, food
By H.C. Johns Hello all! As John said yesterday in his extremely generous introduction, I will be guest blogging here (and at own my blog, The Other Right) for the next few weeks while he is on vacation. This is very exciting for me, as I’ve been reading Upturned Earth since quite a ways back [...]
Filed under: agriculture, personal, philosophy
The Dallas Morning News has an interview up that Rod Dreher conducted with Texas State University’s James McWilliams, a self-identified “agrarian” who’s already made a name for himself (see here for an especially angry (and especially profanity-laden) response) as a critic of the excesses of the “locavore” movement. The interview touches on a range of [...]
Filed under: agriculture, environment, food
When I came across this New York Times article about large vegetable growers and other segments of the industrial food industry who are paying out of pocket to hire inspectors and implement production guidelines and safety standards that go beyond the FDA minimums, I figured it would be a great opportunity to crack some jokes [...]
Filed under: agriculture, food, government/law, libertarianism
Today is the 95th birthday of Norman Borlaug, the man who invented modern industrial agriculture and (some say) fed the world. Here is Ron Bailey’s post in honor of the day, which includes these striking remarks from a 2000 interview: Even if you could use all the organic material that you have–the animal manures, the [...]
Filed under: agriculture, food, science/tech
Over the weekend, Tim Carney and Rod Dreher both had very nice columns on the controversy over the push for the implementation of a National Animal Identification System and other food safety measures being pushed in Congress that would likely pose serious burdens for smaller farmers and other producers who are unable to take advantage [...]
Filed under: agriculture, food, government/law, libertarianism