Good Food is Everybody's Business
Centuries of colonization and other factors have disrupted indigenous communities’ ability to control their own food systems. Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States explores the meaning and importance of food sovereignty for Native peoples in the United States, and asks whether and how it might be achieved and sustained.
Bob Moore, Founder/CEO of Bob’s Red Mill, talks about partnering with farmers like René Featherstone who grows spelt.
Today I received an email inviting me to subscribe to a program (for $180/year!) where I could get a discount (and $80 shipping credit on each order) for beef “sourced from ethical farms within the world’s best regions for raising beef.” Which are? According to Herd and Grace, those regions are Southern Australia and Tasmania, more than 8700 miles away. What???
Climate change has hit your salad bowl. Weather weirdness In the last few weeks (and expected to continue until Christmas) has drastically reduced the volume …
We have an Organic Industry Watchdog to help us keep an eye on the fox in the hen house!
Keep on top of threats and machinations to weaken organic regulations to the benefit of large industrial organic food producers and processors.
It is high time we confessed: we eat meat. The message we are trying to convey with this particular good food experience (a vegetarian meal prepared for guests in Seattle about ten years ago) is that there is wonderful good taste and variety available in natural, whole food for people who want to be healthy. What is more, for people who choose to stop eating unhealthful processed food full of salt, sugar, fat, and chemicals that enhance taste and extend shelf life, good nutritious food is available and affordable.
Around 2600 years ago, in a Jerusalem threatened by siege, God told Ezekiel he would have to live on only bread and water for 390 days. Ezekiel’s challenge was to survive on a daily ration of just 8 ounces of bread and a little over 2 ½ cups of water. Is it possible to do that? Can you survive on just bread and water?
