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Time is maybe not on our side Time magazine, who last year presented a piece on “local vs. organic,” as if the two were mutually exclusive, just printed a piece in response to the “more inclusive” Slow Food unveiled at last weekend’s Slow Food Nation, entitled “Can Slow Food Feed the World?” Sounds like a great question, but in the end, the piece serves to promote the myth that biotech is better for the environment and applauds SF for not “leading a jihad against chemical fertilizers.”

Well, it can feed San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome is working on a food policy that would put local fruits and veggies on every plate served by the city.

BPA bad for your brain We all know those plastic bottles are bad for the environment, but a new study out of Yale reconfirms earlier draft reports that bisphenol A (BPA), the chemical found in plastic bottles, has been linked to brain dysfunction. According to the Washington Post, “the Yale team exposed monkeys to levels of bisphenol A deemed safe for humans by the Environmental Protection Agency and found that the chemical interfered with brain cell connections vital to memory, learning and mood.”

Sarah Palin’s Salmongate In spite of a state law prohibiting her, as Governor, from lobbying for or against the state’s Clean Water Initiative, Palin let reporters know how she stood — against restricting the amount of arsenic and other toxic chemicals that regional mining operations could dump into the state’s waterways. Her stumping worked — the initiative didn’t pass, allowing Pebble Beach mine, located upstream from Bristol Bay, the state’s largest and most sustainable wild salmon fisherie, to dump as much as they want. (Gourmet Magazine)