| Feb 20, 2013 | Food / FarmingDo you have a right to know where that steak on your plate came from? Should it be legal to photograph chicken farms and dairy cows? Big Agriculture says you don’t and it shouldn’t. Armies of Big Ag lobbyists are pushing for new state-level laws across the...
| | Food / FarmingHave you taken your hounds fox hunting lately? You haven’t? Well, maybe you’ve gone to visit a friend’s estate in a horse and carriage? You haven’t done that either, have you? Most of the popular trends of 19th century British aristocracy are not the norm in 21st...
| Feb 13, 2013 | Food / FarmingUntil a few years ago, Rosa Acosta had never even seen a flush toilet. She raised her 12 children in a tiny adobe home in rural Jalisco, Mexico. Several of her kids left it to work in the United States. One son, who left at age 12 to earn money as a farmworker in...
| Feb 6, 2013 | Food / Farming“Why do American companies sell pesticides that are banned in the U.S. to my country?” my Colombian friend Luz asked me. I had no good answer. Yet, this question lies at the core of the bouquet of roses you might give or receive this Valentine’s Day....
| | Food / FarmingFour years ago, Michelle Obama picked up a shovel to make a powerful symbolic statement about America’s food and farm future: She turned a patch of White House lawn into a working organic garden. I’m guessing that now, as she begins another four years in...
| Jan 30, 2013 | Food / Farming|RoundupThis week in OtherWords, we’re mixing food and politics. Wenonah Hauter skewers the government’s lackadaisical regulation of genetically engineered salmon, Jill Richardson calls for a fresh outlook on the relationship between weight and health, Jim...
