Is organic food more nutritious than industrial food? This shameful canard proved that it can still light a fire in the food policy realm when a British “study” concluded that organic food has no special merit nutrition-wise. The Washington Post’s new food wonk, Ezra Klein, chirped that the study was probably right. Plus, organic food is too [...]
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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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