My idea for boosting local agriculture is to create indoor markets where local farmers can sell their products year-round and on a daily basis. I’m not sure if that would constitute a co-op arrangement, or just a facility where farmers could set up shop. It certainly would create a comfortable atmosphere for shoppers, greatly expand […]
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Michael Pollan’s seminal book on the U.S. food chain is called The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I think it would more properly be called “The Food Paradox,” wherein the corporatization of what we eat–arising from the capitalist maxim that greed is good–has brought us to a place where the most abundant and least expensive food makes us […]
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First it was the food banks that were running out of food. Now, as Christmas approaches, we learn that the entire planet is being squeezed. Yes, using food plants to make ethanol and other biofuels is partly behind it. But the economic booms in India and China are also to blame, creating new wealthy classes […]
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