Food Tank highlights ten urban agriculture projects in Washington, DC.
Bill Palladino – MLUI‘s insight:
Capital City Farming: 10 Urban Agriculture Projects in Washington, DC
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Are Americans Paying Too Much for Meat?
Christopher Leonard, author of the recently released book The Meat Racket, joins the News Hub with an investigative look at how four companies muscled their way to controlling America’s meat supply. Photo: Getty.
Bill Palladino – MLUI‘s insight:
Where do you get your meat? Well actually, where does your butcher get your meat? That’s the question answered by Christopher Leonard. Is there a monopoly of meat producers controlling our meat supply? Um, yup.
See on live.wsj.com
Farm Confessional: Secrets of a Supermarket Produce Buyer – Modern Farmer
“A lot goes into this business if it’s done right, a lot of psychology. We aren’t just throwing up stuff and hoping you’ll buy it.”
Bill Palladino – MLUI‘s insight:
Fantastic article with real insight from a retail buyer on what it takes to get your product noticed and bought in the produce aisle.
See on modernfarmer.com
Does it Pay to Keep a Cow? – Chelsea Green
Originally published as The Cow Economy in the 1970s, Keeping a Family Cow is the revised and updated Chelsea Green edition of Joann Grohman’s classic homesteader guide to owning a family cow. In this adapted article below, Grohman – who, at 85, still milks her cow daily – walks newcomers through the economics, and the …
Bill Palladino – MLUI‘s insight:
I remember seeing this book many years ago in a “hippie” bookstore in Minneapolis. Good to see it being revived.
See on www.chelseagreen.com
A “Fresh” Perspective
A Review of the Film “Fresh” By Tricia Phelps There are countless documentaries making comments on the current state of our food system. They each differ in varying degrees of tragedy, omission, ho…
Bill Palladino – MLUI‘s insight:
We showed this film at our Food and Farm Summit a couple weeks back. Tricia Phelps has a review for you here.
Organic Dairy Farmers Hit by California Drought
Organic farmers in California face unique issues in this devastating drought, leading some to bow out … or sell cows fo…
Bill Palladino – MLUI‘s insight:
If you’re trying to predict the potential effects of the coming drought, look no further.
See on medium.com
Could this baker solve the gluten mystery?
Plus: a recipe for whole-wheat bread that doesn’t suck.
Bill Palladino – MLUI‘s insight:
As a twice a week sourdough baker, this makes sense to me.
See on www.motherjones.com
New Report: Americans Love Pizza
Like football, pop music, and democracy itself, pizza follows in the long American tradition of things that began overseas before the United States imported, violently altered, and eventually defined the institution.
Bill Palladino – MLUI‘s insight:
I grew up in the Bronx. This is something akin to suggesting we breathe air.
See on www.theatlantic.com
Loss of only grocer hurts rural Vinton County – Columbus Dispatch
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Columbus Dispatch
Loss of only grocer hurts rural Vinton County
Columbus Dispatch
View Slideshow Ashleigh Ferguson Claar The McArthur SuperValu store, Vinton County’s only supermarket, closed on Sept.
Bill Palladino – MLUI‘s insight:
Another food desert in the making?
See on www.dispatch.com
Come Tour the McNugget Factory
element Colored chicks at a market in Amman, Jordan (Ali Jarekji/Reuters)In a popular gesture of transparency-in-advertising this week, McDonald’s gave the world a walking tour of its McNugget creation process.
Bill Palladino – MLUI‘s insight:
You know that plot element in Walking Dead that never comes up? It’s the origins of the plague that started it all. Yeah, well I think I just figured it out.
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