“America’s current system of food production – overly centralized and industrialized, overly controlled by a handful of companies, overly reliant on monocultures, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, chemical additives, genetically modified organisms, factory farms, government subsidies and fossil fuels – is profoundly undemocratic. It is one more sign of how the few now rule the many. And [...]
Why Being a Foodie Isn’t “Elitist”
May 7th, 2011 · Click here to add a comment · FYI
Tags:chemical fertilizer·Eric Schlosser·factory farm·food production·foodie·GMO·monoculture·Washington Post
Alert of the week
May 17th, 2010 · Click here to add a comment · FYI
In this week’s Organic Bytes, we refer you to this article about safeguarding organic standards. Click here to read.
Tags:factory farm·National Organic Standards Board·NOSB·Organic Bytes·USDA
Look for the good ; Polyface Farm
July 6th, 2008 · Click here to add a comment · Erin
The week of July 7, 2008, we got salad greens, lettuce, fresh slicing onions (keep in the fridge), zucchini, cucumber, Swiss chard, beets w/tops, potatoes and TOMATO. Unfortunately, last week at Sandy Spring we were short shares by the end of the evening. At least one person, who showed up late, did not get a [...]