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Closed Doors, Closed Minds
Chile dealt with its raging epidemic of infectious salmon anemia, a highly contagious disease often called aquaculture's answer to foot-and-mouth.
11.27.07
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Talk About Slipping on a Banana Peel
A jury found that Dole Food Co. and Dow Chemical Co. must pay $3.29 million for causing the sterility of six Nicaraguan banana plantation workers.
11.12.07
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- farms + fish,
- agriculture,
- fruit,
- politics of the plate,
- barry estabrook
food politics
Politics of the Plate: Turnabout is Fair Play, Monsanto
Percy and Louise Schmeiser, a pair of 76-year-old Saskatchewan farmers, received a Right Livelihood Award—commonly called the "Alternative Nobel Prize."
10.15.07
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- farms + fish,
- agriculture,
- politics of the plate,
- barry estabrook
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Skillet Set
A soul-food staple finds its highest—and widest—expression at these Music City restaurants.
October 2007
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- roadfood,
- restaurants,
- seafood,
- fish,
- poultry
food politics
Politics of the Plate: No Joy for These Almonds
The USDA has mandated that almonds grown in this country be either fumigated with chemicals or exposed to high-temperature sterilization against the remote possibility of salmonella contamination.
08.13.07
food politics
Politics of the Plate: Is There Life After Death?
U. S. Government Accountability Office auditors found that, in part because of lax oversight, the USDA doles out more than $1 billion a year to farmers who are dead.
07.30.07
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- barry estabook,
- politics of the plate,
- farms + fish,
- agriculture,
- farming
food politics
Knucklehead Farmer, Act 2 ...
A perfect ear of unsprayed sweet corn is one of the great rewards of farming the way I do.
07.17.07
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- farms + fish,
- produce,
- tim stark,
- corn
magazine
Against the Grain
Civilization was built on an annual wheat crop. But a few visionary thinkers say it’s time to break the habit.
July 2007
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- farms + fish,
- farming,
- agriculture
food politics
Let Them Eat Cake
Cake, cookies, candy bars and even Tater Tots are the high-calorie human foods that are fattening hogs and cattle.
06.04.07
magazine
A View to a Kill
Americans eat almost 9 billion chickens a year, which requires megafarms and giant processing plants. Is there a better way for the birds to meet their end?
June 2007
- Keywords
- daniel zwerdling,
- farms + fish,
- food policy,
- agriculture
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