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Entries from February 2009

Dispatch from Canada: On the “Beeten” Path?

February 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment

At a time of year when many of us are thinking about giving fancy sweets to loved ones, there’s a lot going on with beet sugar. Emily Fudakowski fills us in on what’s happening up north.
Montreal based sugar processing giant Rogers/Lantic will soon decide if it will accept GM sugar beet from Alberta farmers [...]

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More Bad News about BPA

February 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Bree Shirvell graduated in May 2008 from George Washington University with a degree in political science in journalism. She is currently a freelance writer in New York, and has wrote for La Cucina Italiana, OZOlife, ToTheCenter, and PG Media.
As if eating right wasn’t hard enough, a new study has found that anyone who was [...]

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Get out your Nets, Your Food is Swimming: The Water Footprint of Food

February 9th, 2009 · No Comments

This post comes to us from Kai Olson-Sawyer, the Water Program Manager at H2O Conserve. For more information on water conservation, water education, and to check your “water footprint,” go to www.h2oconserve.org.
When you think about food, do you think about water? As more people question where their food comes from, how is it grown, [...]

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The Vegetarian Chronicles: 28 Days

February 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Here’s another one from Joe Baker, who has yet to fall off the veggie wagon (except for that lard biscuit early on).
A few days ago, I was stressed out and was carried some negative energy to work. Luckily, a coworker called me out on it and taught me a few helpful techniques for calming [...]

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News Feed

February 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Today’s News Feed comes to you from the PASA conference, where we’re excited to be rubbing elbows with so many sustainable farmers. We’ll be soaking up sustainable ag info, and hope to report back on it soon.
Well, yeah. According to CNN, lack of oversight is to blame for the salmonella outbreak. President Obama [...]

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Meet your Meat Label

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

An invaluable “extern” addition to the Eat Well team, Lewis Seton is an environmental policy and international studies double major at Colby College in Maine. After graduating in May, he plans to spend most of his free time playing Frisbee and frantically searching for a job.
In supermarkets across the country, meats with labels like “organic” [...]

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Slow Food for Fast People: An Interview with Amanda West

February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Finally some food news that involves neither mercury nor salmonella! Originally posted on Garden of Eatin’ by Eve Fox, who was kind enough to share with us and is lucky enough to work upstairs from Amanda’s brilliant new green, healthy fast food restaurant (you heard me!) in Berkeley. You can bet we’re checking this [...]

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