It’s official: the Obama administration is pushing ethanol full bore. Call it welfare for corn farmers. You remember ethanol. That’s the stuff that only recently was driving up food prices worldwide, pushing poor people into starvation mode, spewing pollution into air and water, gobbling up natural gas. And nobody could even say if it was [...]
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 [...]
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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