February 2011
1 post
December 2009
3 posts
reduce your food miles!
80% of the energy used in the U.S. food system is spent on processing, transporting, storing and preparing food.
http://attra.ncat.org/farm_energy/food_miles.html
YAY! the USDA is subsidizing something useful!
hoop houses! the beginnings of the USDA supporting small scale farmers and the local food movement????!!!
i can totally get behind baby steps…
http://www.rocfund.org/panels/panels/using-the-white-house-garden-to-promote-farmer-production-of-year-round-local-and-regional-food
sexiest damn bowl of greens i ever did see...
or maybe it was the farmer waxing poetic about how much of a joke USDA certified organic is. i couldn’t have said it better myself.
2x radish sprouts, micro mesclun, buckwheat sprouts, kabu, cilantro.
November 2009
6 posts
Say NO to GMO...
Wondering if your food is genetically modified? Here are your statistics:
Soy 91% Corn 85% Cotton 85% Canola 80-85% (Canada)
If you think your food is in it's natural, raw...
It was probably irradiated.
Irradiating food involves exposing it to ionizing radiation to kill off things like bacteria and bugs. It also kills the food, ie stopping it from sprouting and ripening, and you can say goodbye to the enzymes.
Foods that are irradiated include fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, sprout seeds, flour, potatoes.
Oh, but don’t worry, all irradiated foods are required...
i would rather have a cockroach in my ear than eat...
yeah, apparently monsanto is slated to release GMO legumes embedded with cholesterol and diabetes drugs… also they are patenting pigs. they are going to own our whole food supply soon. the WORLD’S food supply. so scary. more scary than having a cockroach in your ear.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_19665.cfm
do you want to be able to light your tap water on...
the correct answer to that question is NO.
so very much NO. hydrofracking is not precise! the process wastes oodles of fresh water and risks oodles more when it doesn’t go as planned. all this for a few more years of gas?
watch tap water in Pennsylvania ignite
read more about this HORRIBLE practice and sign the petition to keep it out of ny state
Is our need for oil more important than our need...
watch this
and this.
October 2009
4 posts
NYC is made of dead rainforests
that’s right people, NYC is the largest consumer of tropical hardwood in north america, and possibly the world (outside of the tropics)
http://www.rainforestrelief.org/Campaigns/New_York_City_s_Rainforest_Wood.html
HFCS may be part of colony collapse...
http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/jf9014526
Holistic management could save the world, one...
Contrary to popular belief, meat is NOT the number one cause of global warming, feed lots are. Carbon farming takes it back to the old OLD frontier, before the invention of barbed wire and privatization of land. The idea is to use grazing, large hoofed animals to sequester carbon… grass takes in the carbon, animals trample the grass, soil absorbs the carbon from the trampled plant life, new...
Your right to food
Affordable access to good, healthy food is a right, not a privilege!
http://fooddeclaration.org/
September 2009
15 posts
very interesting, to say the least
monsanto’s pledge.
http://www.monsanto.com/who_we_are/our_pledge/monsanto_pledge.asp
yeah. right.
(the fact that i am increasing monsanto’s searchability on the interwebz by posting this is sickening)
disappointing
while this is not to say it’s satisfying to me, because people being deceived and unknowingly being exposed to potentially harmful chemicals is not something i revel in, i always said there was something suspect about the sigg liners and for that reason, avoided their bottles. anything that can be accidentally scratched and, as a result, reveal it’s toxic innards is not something i...
well, thank god
a lifetime of healthy eating could really start with better school lunches…
http://healthyschoolscampaign.typepad.com/healthy_schools_campaign/2009/09/vilsack-connects-healthy-eating-and-reduce-health-care-costs.html
first pumpkin ale of the season
as a lover of everything fall and winter, when i saw that pumpkin ale had made it’s debut of the season, i was more than ecstatic. i snatched up a dogfish head punkin and it just might dethrone the running favorite, post road. no joke, i tasted real pumpkin in there people!
on a side note, steer clear of shipyard’s pumpkinhead… i am pretty sure it’s bottled pbr.
there's that word again... NATURAL
this makes me want to vomit
http://www.bevreview.com/2009/03/05/pepsi-natural/
'certified naturally grown'
when i saw this on a sign attached to a stall at the union square greenmarket today, i was immediately turned off. in general, i am very skeptical of the word NATURAL. it’s plastered all over everything, everywhere and has come to mean absolutely nothing. an empty buzz word. but after talking to the farmer at the evolutionary organics stand, i walked away with pea shoots, garlic and three...
up at 7:03...
i woke up this morning at 7:03 with my head all a flutter about reverend billy’s talk at conflux yesterday. he works a lot with how much the idea and useage of public space has changed. he made a very poignant comment about how times square should really just be attached to jfk airport because it has basically been turned into an extension of the airplane terminal. this got me thinking about...
art not ads →
IMO, most of the time, advertisements are really quite hideous. now you can see art instead, which could potentially also suck. but at least you don’t have to stare at those repeating gifs on weather.com any longer.
wait, i actually kind of like those.
kimchi!
today i received cabbage and daikon radishes in my csa share. i think the food gods are telling me to make…KIMCHI!! i’m searching for a good vegan recipe. check back for documentation of the process and outcome.
