Earthjustice is taking EPA to court to prevent the Bush administration from sneaking through a last-minute exemption that would allow factory farms to pollute our air without issuing a warning to the government.
One of the biggest changes in the rural landscape over the years has been the explosion in the number of CAFOs - Confined […]

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Jonathan Bloom, author of the Wasted Food blog, offers advice on the website Cooking Up a Story about how we can stop wasting so much food. For those of you particularly interested in the Urban Fruit Gleaning project in Portland, click here.

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Reuters is reporting that King Nut peanut butter, as well as the company’s Parnell’s Pride brand, is the likely source of the salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 400 people since September. Tests on jars of the product from the Ohio-based food distributor confirm the bacteria, and a recall is underway.
Remember that Peter Pan peanut […]

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Change.org has been hosting a crowd-sourcing effort to develop progressive proposals they can take to the in-coming Obama administration. Rob Wheeler’s proposal for a National Strategy for Sustainability has made the first cut, and he is now asking you to click here to vote for it in the finals. Wheeler is part of the Citizens […]

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer warns us that there is a thriving new business in smuggled honey. As bee populations crash worldwide, honey becomes scarce and therefore more valuable, which inevitably leads to a black market.
Truly worrisome is that big shipments from China that have been laundered by transhipping them through other countries are often tainted. Some […]

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