Daily Essentials | 24 August 2016
. The ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION reports that Delta Airlines is testing out cashews as inflight snacks. Somewhere in Mozambique, farmers are smiling. 101 Cookbooks: Coconut […]
Articles by Marc Brazeau
Daily Essentials | 22 August 2016
JACOBIN looks at the exploitation of farm workers on the type of local farms that the Pollan wing of the Food Movement has been holding […]
Daily Essentials – 18 August 2016
WAPO: Half of Australia’s baby formula is being “smuggled” into China. THOMPSON REUTERS: A local prosecutor in Brazil aims to clean up the countries land […]
Daily Essentials | 16 August 2016
SMITTEN KITCHEN | Chile-Lime Melon Salad If you go to Mexico City and leave without a pressing, relentless craving for melon, or really just about […]
Daily Essentials | 15 August 2016
Featured image of red chili peppers in Sanliurfa, Turkey (Halil Fidan / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images) via Big Picture Agriculture: Global Food and Agriculture […]
Chipotle, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
When Chipotle announced they were not extending paid sick days to hourly employees last year, there were some who suggested that they might pay a price in food safety. As they post big losses following a series of disease outbreaks, that strategy does indeed look penny wise and pound foolish.
The Organic Consumer’s Union War on Syllables
Derek Lowe has an excellent post on his blog on Science: Translational Medicine that unpacks the illiterate fear mongering in the Organic Consumer Union’s filing […]
Another not so sweet victory for the Anti-GMO movement
It’s nearly impossible to argue that switching from the GMO sugar beets that currently make up the bulk of the US sugar supply to sugarcane is in any way a net benefit to the environment. Sugarcane is an environmentally intensive crop. It requires large amounts of water and often threatens local aquifers. It is a tropical crop which requires the deforestation of vital, biodiverse habitat to allow for new production.
On the History of the Impact of Family Farm on Families
Gabriel Rosenberg, a women’s studies professor at Duke, has a lays out some intriguing history of agricultural America that challenges on central idyll of American […]
Eating Bugs at Home Has Never Been Easier!!!
If you are trying to come up with gift ideas your favorite food wonk, look no further than the Livin Farm. The Web Urbanist explains […]
Thanksgiving Soup
As a follow up to the last post on Thanksgiving leftovers, I thought I’d share my backstop for mopping up Thanksgiving leftovers and minimizing waste. […]
Not All Thanksgiving Leftovers Are Created Equal
I spent this Thanksgiving with a friend’s family. A fine day and a wonderful evening. As we were pushing the last bits of stuffing around […]
Ask a Farmer: Katie Olthoff, Squaw Creek Farm
[This QA is a reprint from May 6, 2014 and was drawn from a conversation that originally took place in the Food and Farm Discussion […]
FAFDL Thanksgiving Reader
Behind Your Holiday Sweet Potato Dish, Hard Work In The Fields Dan Charles | NPR This year, Burch Farms has a monster crop, the biggest […]
Toshiba turns a building into a pesticide … sort of.
Quartz reports: One of the first things you notice is the Toshiba logo everywhere. That’s because indoor farming isn’t just a fluke industry that someone […]
Space … the final frontier.
Strapping back in after a nice, long summer break and the biggest news in the food system today? First food grown in space that has […]
Learn about CRISPR, the revolutionary gene editing technology that’s sweeping the globe!
CRISPR is a gene editing technique that has fairly recently come into it’s own. It’s a technique that comes from nature, allows scientists to edited […]
Let’s Be Honest. It’s an Acre.
[Please consider supporting GMO Building Blocks with ongoing contribution of $1, $2, $3, $5 or $10 a month on Patreon.] If I were to boil […]
Pests in the City and the Junkfood Diet of Ants
It may seem only tangentially related, but this episode of Science for the People will yield many fascinating insights to anyone interested in agriculture and […]
Chipotle Does Right by Hourly Employees. So Many Questions.
Welcome news from Chipotle. “We just made an announcement internally that we are now going to be offering sick pay and paid vacation time for […]