Food policy destinations, from a distance US Food Policy’s Parke Wilde has put together a top 10 list of the country’s “food policy destinations,” complete with real-life visuals (compliments of Google Earth), giving you a real-life view of the land involved in operations like Smithfield’s Tar Heel plant, as opposed to “the pastoral image that an interested party wants you to view.”
All hail the queen’s subsidies Every country in the EU except for Germany has disclosed the beneficiaries of farm subsidies, and the NY Times and the International Herald Tribune have crunched the numbers — turns out that in addition to small farmers, landowners like the Queen of England, (as well as Prince Charles) have received handsome sums, as have multinationals like Cargill.
Small town Aussies take back the tap After voting out a bottled water extradition plant, residents of Bundanoon, Australia have become the first in the world to issue an all-out ban on bottled water.
In the name of food safety Although, as this SF Gate article points out early on, signs point to industrial agriculture as the culprit for many of our food safety woes, industrial producers are “sanitizing” operations by throwing the baby out with the bathwater filling ponds, paving vegetated areas adjacent to fields, and otherwise attempting to “sterilize” the land they grow food on.
Appropriating street art Domino’s Pizza has taken to the sidewalk in NYC, LA and Philadelphia with graffiti-style ads.
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