Let me make sure I have my facts straight: In the heart of New York City, a husband and wife, and their very young daughter, embark on a year long journey to transition into a lifestyle that leaves behind a zero carbon footprint? That means: no plastic bottles, no restaurant food, no coffee shops, no [...]
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MRSA: Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, Pigs, and Human Illness
March 27, 2009
The Use of antibiotics in livestock and the possible connections to the emergence of a super bug?
You may have read, that in 2005, there were 18,000 known deaths in the US that resulted from a type of Staph bacteria, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), pronounced mer-sa. MRSA (Staph) is resistant to broad-spectrum antibiotics, [...]
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High Fructose Corn Syrup Pronounced Innocent!
Yesterday evening on NPR’s ALL Things Considered, I listened to a report summarizing a recent series of scientific studies that concluded High Fructose Corn Syrup, and table sugar are indistinguishable in effect when it comes to their association with the development of obesity: “…earlier this month, several scientific papers concluded that high-fructose [...]
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Michael Pollan on Tom Vilsack Appointment to Head Agriculture Department
There was an old commercial on television once (does anyone remember it?), “when E.F. Hutton talks, people listen” and a noisy room would instantly go quiet as the wise investment advisor spoke. Boy, has that pendulum shifted!
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A City Looks Toward Defining Its Future
Damascus, Oregon (population: 10,000) ponders how to integrate existing urban agriculture into its future urban fabric.
Damascus, Oregon is located about 20 miles southeast of Portland, incorporating the surrounding communities of Damascus and Carver to become a city in 2004. It occupies roughly 10,000 acres (16 miles); now designated inside the Portland Metropolitan urban growth [...]
Sky Vegetables: A Brilliant Notion
One of the big challenges facing our modern industrial food system is the heavy reliance upon fossil fuels for the growing of crops, and the transporting of them long distances to market. An average head of lettuce travels 1500 miles before reaching the supermarket shelf, a longer distance than many of us travel on [...]
