Supper Roundup: Touch of Honey

categories: Biodiversity, Food Safety, Recommended Reading, Urban Agriculture

Published June 25, 2009 @ 06:03PM PT

- Rabbi Mark Hurvitz talks about fasting for Darfur and other meaningful ways to raise awareness.

- "The End of the Line", a documentary about the rapid disappearance of the world's fish due to overconsumption is good, says Twilight Greenaway, but never really calls on us to take the obvious step of eating less seafood.

- I really enjoyed this informative tribute to feminist and organic gardener, Eleanor Perenyi, by regina.

- Jill Richardson alerts us to the fact that 41,000 lbs of ground beef has been recalled. The beef was produced in late April, which, as you may realize, was about two months ago.

- Ali S continues following the very bad situation of US dairy producers.

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This will be of interest of everyone who cares about sustainable agriculture.

The Unexplored Potential of Organic-Biotech Production

Report Categories: Organic Products

Approved By: Jim Dever

Prepared By: Cyndi Barmore

Report Highlights: The organic movement rejects biotechnology as inherently contradictory to its fundamental goal of promoting environmental protection in agriculture. European organic promoters in particular stress respect for nature over yield maximization, campaigning for a return to traditional production methods and inputs. [1] In reality, the divide between organics and biotechnology is an artificial construction maintained by ideology rather than science. A governmental decision to change organic regulations to permit the use of biotechnology could have far-reaching policy implications for global agriculture. Allowing producers to gain organic certification for biotech crops could encourage the development of a new type of environmentally sustainable agricultural production with greater benefits for the consumer.

http://gain.fas.usda.gov/Recent%20GAIN%20Publications/The%20Unexplored%20Potential%20of%20Organic-Biotech%20Production_Rome_Italy_5-26-2009.pdf

Posted by Robert Wager on 06/25/2009 @ 06:15PM PT
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And from the founder of the Whole earth catalog;

http://www.technologyreview.com/BizTech/wtr_14406,296,p1.html

Posted by Robert Wager on 06/26/2009 @ 10:59AM PT
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Natasha is an amateur eater with severe snarkolepsy and a c. 2002 blogging habit. She had a fabulous time studying ecological agriculture and policy at The Evergreen State College, and even did her homework while writing at various times for pacificviews.org, boomantribune.com, and mydd.com.