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Vote For Better Food
This isn’t an animal rights blog, it’s not a health blog, and it’s not a political blog. It’s a good food blog. That’s why I’m taking my first public stand on an issue here on the blog; because there’s an issue on the ballot in Ohio tomorrow that can mean a lot to the quality [...]
Why You Can’t Cook Like Your Grandmother
I don’t write much about the politics of food, but this issue really shows why it’s so hard for people to cook the way their grandparents did.
In the past century, world agriculture has lost 75% of its genetic diversity to globalization, standardization and monoculture farming; 95% of the tomato varieties that existed in 1909 have [...]
Help remove fake food from the food supply
When Chinese companies were caught putting melamine into dog food people were outraged. No matter what the protein tests may have said (that’s why melamine was added, it made the protein content look higher) it isn’t food. Seems pretty straightforward.
But most people eating the “Western diet” — heavy on processed foods and factory-farmed meat — [...]
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