Food
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FUGMO says: “F U, GMOs!”
More on why you too should say F U to GMOs:
From Grist: The… Read the rest
More on unsustainable fishing practices and Tuna
From Greenpeace: The Tuna Industry’s Got a Dirty Little Secret
From PlanetSave: Annual Quota of Bluefin Tuna Caught in 1 Week
GreenPeace again: The harsh reality of longline fishing
From SeafoodWatch: Seafood Watch Pocket Guide
Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and StumbleUpon page…… Read the rest
More on the school lunches
From Grist: Down with healthy school lunches, says House GOP
From GOOD: Infographic: School Cafeteria Food vs. Prison Food
More on Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA)
From Daily Kos: GOP congressman repeatedly denies evolution on Real Time with Bill Maher
More on Kellogs (Tony the Tiger’s… Read the rest
For those unfamiliar with the work of Wendell Berry (and for those familiar who may need a little refresher), he is David to the agribusiness Goliath. Berry works tirelessly to promote proper land stewardship, sustainability, and conservation and uses every opportunity to point out the drastic short-sightedness of our current… Read the rest
Wendell Berry is a personal hero of mine. He is one of the leading voices in the world for proper land stewardship and conservation. As readers of Wend… Read the rest magazine (print and online) we cannot, in good conscience, travel the land without being stewards of the land. Therefore, we should take
Commercials piss me off, fast food commercials especially.
Most notably those that prey on the dimwitted fatties who get chubby little erections when they learn (from a commercial) that Taco Bell is promoting $2 Meal Deals!!! (Insert excitement here—followed by heart attack.)
Charles Barkley (Referring to the $2 meal deal):… Read the rest
For Charlie Preston-Townsend, Spela Bertoncelj and Andrew Boslett, three college graduates in their mid-20s, life after college has taken an unexpected–and sustainable–route. The trio plan to pedal from Bozeman, Montana on a mission to cross the country on bicycle. Getting away from a daily reliance on planes and automobiles is… Read the rest
Lightweight and nutritious, energy bars may be the perfect trail food, but does the luxury of having the ideal snack warrant contributing to landfill waste? It’s the ultimate leave-no-trace hiker’s dilemma. Back in March of 2009 we ran a story titled The Energy Bar Wrapper Dilemma, which discusses the frustrating… Read the rest
The health-food focused New York eatery Pump recently launched this video ad, which satirically presents common “crap” foods and fads. Wonderfully witty and fun to watch.
[Via: Huffington Post]
Follow me on Twitter @SustainablYours… Read the rest
Cruelty-free meat may soon be a reality, as science continues to get closer to creating pork from pig stem cells. Growing lab pork since 2006, Dutch scientists have yet to get the texture quite right, but are positive that the technology will have a huge impact on our food supply.… Read the rest
