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Last night was the preview for Chef Jamie Oliver’s new television show, Food Revolution. I will say from the start as much as I love to cook, and I even opened a coffee house/cafe to fulfill this love of cooking, I rarely watch cooking shows and had never seem Jamie’s TV show. Naturally I have
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Not too long ago Silk products, including their Silk soy milk, switched from using organic soybeans to cheaper commercial or ‘natural’ (as their web site says) soybeans in almost all of their products. This switch took place in a way that most consumers would never have noticed. Initially the packaging remained virtually unchanged except for
michelle victoria 1 Comment Industrial food practices, Sustainable Businesses
This is a great short quiz from Planet Green that will bring to your attention who really owns many of the largest organic food brands…You may be surprised. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing if we think a brand is independently owned and it turns out that a mega-corporation actually owns it, but it
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Here is a great piece from treehugger.com about GMOS’s. The main point of the story is why have Americans accepted the massive inclusion of genetically modified food in our food supply, without much of a fight. And I will add, why has our government been complicit in this. Last week in India the release of genetically
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Global warming, climate change, we can see it happening all around us. Warmer temperatures in some places and colder winters in others. What can each of us do on an individual level and how can we let our leaders know that this matters to us? It is time for action in so many levels. This
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Green jobs, green cars, a green economy, do you ever wonder what exactly qualifies as green and how green is green? It has been said that green is the new black…a trend, a new wave, maybe even a cool way to live. But is that it? There are so many good reasons for this ‘greening’,
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Friends of Slow Money are at it….. Are you fighting to protect the environment? Mitigate climate change? Save the oceans? End oil dependency? Improve health? Improve food systems? Preserve freedom? Imagine if your $5 contribution (coupled with thousands of others) could launch a whole new movement — one that fixes our food system, empowers social
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“Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food” – Hippocrates. We have been saying and hearing for years, you are what you eat, and this is clearly the truth. What are we eating as a society and what are we becoming as a result of it? We are all becoming increasingly
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Recently, an alliance of over a dozen giant food conglomerates and some industry “experts” unveiled the Smart Choices® Program, which puts a shiny green “smart choice” check mark on foods like Froot Loops® and Lucky Charms®. In an age when childhood obesity has become an epidemic, calling sugar cereals “smart choices” is unacceptable. Please join us
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If you want to know more about the food that you are eating, and what you can do to protect our food supplies this is a great web site. It is nice to know that their are a few lobbyists in Washington protecting our interests. This is their Mission Statement: Food & Water Watch protects