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 […]
It seems the whole world is badgering the Obamas to tear up part of the White House lawn and plant a food garden. Kitchen Gardeners International started a petition called “Eat the View” that calls on the first family to plant a “victory garden” within their first 100 days in office. Michael Pollan, writing in […]
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 […]
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