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Food Safety Meets Organic Farming: Destroying the Conceptual Foundations by Hyper-Technologizing
Farmworkers harvest organically grown lettuce at Lakeside Organic Gardens Farm in Watsonville. Photo: Paul Chinn/The Chronicle.Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safetyBy Carolyn Lochhead / July 13, 2009 Washington — Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro … Continue reading
Organic Alternative and the Whole Foods Fraud
The organic monopoly and the myth of ‘natural’ foods: How industry giants are undermining the organic movement On non-meat products, the term natural is typically pure propaganda. Companies (like Whole Foods Market or UNFI) are simply telling us what we … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Environment, Organic Food, pollution, Sustainability, Whole Foods
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Stevia : Sweet News in Fight Against Diabetes
Natural sweetener Stevia, now approved by the FDA, doesn’t raise blood sugar levels, which is good news in the fight against diabetes, a killer disease affecting millions worldwide. By Kate Braun and Mariann Wizard / The Rag Blog / June … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, FDA, Gardening, Health, Medicine, Organic Food
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Foodie Sunday: Open Season on Alice Waters
Alice Waters. Photograph by Jamie Rose/The New York Times/Redux.The War on Alice WatersBy Laura Shapiro / May 6, 2009 She made sustainable agriculture a rallying cry, but now the activist chef is under attack from food lovers. “It…radically overstates Alice … Continue reading
Austin’s Whole Foods : Union Busting in Hippie Clothing?
Whole Foods Market’s flagship store and corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas.Something Stinks at Whole Foods …something sinister lurks beneath the surface of Whole Foods’ progressive image. Somehow, [founder and CEO John] Mackey has managed to achieve multimillionaire status while his … Continue reading
Foodie Friday: World’s Best Tortilla Soup
Healing BrothsBy Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2009 My old buddy David Hamilton, knowing of my recent foray into healing broths, gave me a large grocery sack of collard greens from his garden. Why it took … Continue reading
Herdshares, Melamine and the Crazed Priorites of the ‘Regulators’
I wonder what sort of regulatory model we have arrived at that finds it commendable to break up small groups of people wanting to raise and consume a natural product with no harmful properties and yet ignores a massive, fraudulent, … Continue reading
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Tagged Farming, FDA, Government Regulation, Health, Melamine, Nutrition, Organic Food
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Fatty Foods : All the Skinny
‘Obesity, though some would prefer to call it eating disorders, is a big growth area, not just for the unwitting sufferers, but also for some food companies which contribute so greatly to the problem.’By Asinus Asinum Fricat / November 18, … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Pharma, Health, Medicine, Nutrition, Obesity, Organic Food, Pharmaceutical Companies
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NUTRITION : The Pros and Cons of "Organic" Food Revisited
Yesterday The Rag Blog posted an article by Roger Baker in which he contended that the types of food you eat can be more important than eating food labeled “organic.” [NUTRITION: Are Organic Foods Just a Marketing Trend? by Roger … Continue reading
NUTRITION : Are ‘Organic’ Foods Just a Marketing Ploy?
Organic apple. Better, or just more expensive?Study shows what you eat is more important than whether the food meets the criteria to be called ‘organic’By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2008 Are “organic” foods really safer … Continue reading
