The Low Fruit Has Been Picked. High Impact Crop Breeding is Hard, Arduous Work.
Here’s a big snippet from what I think is the most interesting part of my column today about a Center for Food Safety article on […]
Month: September 2014
Do Food Hubs warrant a federal subsidy?
Andrea Fonesco CC 3.0 The New York Times reports that the USDA is getting under way with funding for a raft of programs relating to […]
Asymmetry of Misinformation
Karl Frankowski | Flickr | cc A recent Paul Krugman post describes how critics of Obamacare stay misinformed, not always through incorrect information, but rather […]
Krugman, $15 Fast Food Wages and Anti-Wishful Thinking
Paul Krugman explains why a $15 an hour wage for fast food workers could work and why we need a phrase that means the opposite […]
Chefs, Breeders, and Dogtown and Z-Boys.
Sarah Laskow has an article in the Atlantic about a chef-led plant breeding movement that setting its eyes on the next horizon: flavor. In the […]
Surprising News on Lobbying Spending by Industry in Labeling Fight
It’s not how much they are spending. It’s how little. Coca-Cola spent $4.8 million through the second quarter of this year; PepsiCo spent $2.34 million; […]
Ferguson to NYC: A Fast Food Worker’s Journey for Justice
Local McDonald’s workers felt that it would distract from the focus in their community on the Michael Brown tragedy if they held a strike right […]
Q: What Do Non-pollinating Organic Corn and Arctic Apples Have In Common?
image: slappytheseal | flickr | cc A: It’s easier to change the damn crop than to change people’s thinking. Civil Eats has a story on […]