Don’t look now but the Obama adminstration is making good on our worst fears, ramping up the pressure for NOT less but MORE ethanol. Obama’s agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack this week announced that he is all in favor a proposal from Midwestern aggies to raise the amount of ethanol that can be blended into a […]
Here is what we know is true about food in the United States of America: Everything bad about it–the demise of family farms, the pollution, the unhealthy products–flows from decades of our government working hand-in-glove with huge corporations to build an industrial algriculture system based on fossil fuels that produces a glut of corn and […]
The movie “My Cousin Vinny” gave us a classic laugh line when actor Joe Pesci, playing a New Jersey lawyer confronting breakfast in the Deep South, asks: “What’s a grit?” There’s still some confusion over whether “grits” should be treated in the singular or the plural. But there’s no mistaking where grits come from. They […]
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