Thursday Brunch: Rare Bacon

Published May 21, 2009 @ 05:26AM PT

Spinach, eggs, bacon; by inuyaki Raiding the internet fridge for your intellectual delectation ...

- @tracingpaper Of 649 known pig breeds, 151 are extinct, 58 critical, 106 endangered: Atlas of Food again http://tr.im/lKbK Eat rare pigs http://tr.im/lY14

- How to farm in all climates and build a solar box cooker.

- ConAgra and Sara Lee <3 sustainability, too! Ahem.

- The Green Revolution has failed Africa.

- The climate change map you have to see, particularly because it's going to be twice as bad as was thought 2 years ago.

- India's great hopes for jatropha may have been overblown. It's the same problem as genetically modified crops engineered with drought resistance: maybe they *can* grow in areas where the soil is poor or there isn't much water and fertilizer, but they don't yield enough to make it worthwhile to bother.

(Photo credit: inuyaki on Flickr.)

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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.