Corn: feed, food, fuel. But, in which order? About a year ago I was unpacking some porcelain dolls I inherited from my grandma. It was neat to look at the newspaper from when they were packed up 16 years ago. I thought this children’s section was pretty interesting, given all the discussion about the role [...]
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Corn: feed, food, fuel
Posted in Big Food, Random on August 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An Economy of Scale
Posted in Big Food, In the News, Meat, Status Quo on May 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Did the term “factory farm” exist 50 years ago? Ranching typically means raising cows, horses, or sheep (right?), but ranching can not describe our “concentrated animal feeding operations,” where we grow cows. So, in that regard, “farming” is apt. Methods have certainly devolved over the last 50 years; now corporations dictate the what, when, where, [...]
Food for Thought
Posted in Big Food, Eating Out, Events, In the News on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night was Green Drinks at Trattoria il Centro (beware of the music on the Trattoria site). This time we learned a bit about permaculture and organic gardening in Oklahoma. There was also a seed exchange; I traded purple coneflower seeds for an awesome book on off-grid living and some cucumber, cherry tomato, and cinnamon [...]
The Corn Man
Posted in Big Food, Media on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Michael Pollan is probably known as the (anti-) corn man, but he is much more than that. I think I have a little crush on him. He’s eloquent and precise, he’s thorough, and a good disseminator of scientific information. I just finished In Defense of Food, which explores the shift from focusing on whole foods [...]
Excerpt
Posted in Big Food, Market, Media on October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Just finished reading an interview of Michael Pollan by Tom Philpott. The entire discussion is great, but here’s a particularly interesting excerpt: TP: The advice to “eat food, not much, mostly plants” is deceptively simple—how do you apply that in a society that’s become addicted to convenience food? MP: I think that there’s some brainwashing [...]
Delusions
Posted in Big Food, Local, Market, Meat, Status Quo on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Every day I pass a meat market on my way to and from work. Matt and I had the morning off to take the dogs to the vet, so we made a point to stop in and buy some meat. We parked in front of the windowless building. The back/side has a corral that I [...]
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