| Welcome to GoodFood World | January 20, 2012
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It's 2012, welcome to your GMOcery! "Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up! Our GMOcery tour is about to begin. That's right, get on board our corn-fueled trolley car; it's a big store, no need to walk. Help yourself to our delicious-nutritious-vitamin-enhanced water drinks found in Aisle 9 and, please, get comfortable and enjoy the tour!"
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Supermarket Baby Food Aisle
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In her biting satire, our Healthy Living correspondent Ina Denburg goes after Big Food swinging. She spent the afternoon - 3 1/2 hours - in her local Stop & Shop superstore combing through the products on the shelves. "When I got to the baby food aisle, I thought I'd need to call 911," says Ina, "for the emotional distress disorder that was coming over me."
Read it! And Ina says "whether it makes you laugh, cry, or get angry, please get involved!"
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Browsing the Co-op
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Now that you've gotten all the dirty details, what can you do? Katie Hilmer, our Good Food on a Budget contributor, says try Conscious Consumption on a Budget.
It's not always easy to keep track of the content of your food; you might not always have time to go to the natural foods store. And if you want to go out to eat, odds are you can't afford to eat at the restaurant that lists the life history of every vegetable on your plate.
At those times, don't worry about whether your food is organic or not, but whether it is fresh, delicious, and preferably local or at least supporting a local business.
There's more, keep reading! Get a cup of coffee and join us at GoodFood World, where we get to the source by talking to the people who produce, process, and deliver good food. Take care, eat well, and be well! |
One Farmer's Delivery Dilemma
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Snow in Seattle
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The snow and ice in the Pacific Northwest this week made national news - and, no, we're not a bunch of wimps here! West of the Cascades we get the kind of snow that makes it nearly impossible to navigate the hills in Puget Sound: wet, sloppy, slippery - and worse when coated with an inch of ice! It especially makes it difficult for small farmers selling into the city.
Farming north of the 48th parallel means short growing seasons and long winters. Raising meat animals rather than produce in the North means at least having products available for delivery almost year round. Yet when your nearest big market is 250 miles away, making winter deliveries can be hazardous.
In Local, Direct, Sustainable, Organic - One Farmer's Delivery Dilemma, read how snow in Seattle cost this small farm a tremendous amount of time, effort, and money. While the show must go on, sometimes the meat just doesn't get delivered. Multiple round trips - at a cost of nearly $200 per trip - and days of driving on snowy roads take their toll physically, mentally, and emotionally.
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Op-Ed: Beyond Specialization to Good Work
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Systems Thinking - Beyond Specialization to Good Work, Ken Kailing
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Bradner Gardens Park and Community Garden
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Some people don't understand the concept of "system." They talk it, but then they become completely focused on only one or another element. That, of course, is partly brought on by the world of industrial specialization in which we have grown up.
Very few of us can really see beyond our departments, cubicles, or front doors and then we have the terrible communication difficulty between interest groups where language itself is confounded.
Have you ever noticed some people seem to connect in cooperative structures almost automatically - like children's natural play - and others remain ego-separate no matter what?
I believe we should concentrate on locations (perhaps like Growing Power has in Chicago or Bradner Gardens Park in Seattle) where people seem to be able to invent ways to get around bureaucracy and corporate dominance... where people are using everything they find to invent new, practical, earth-friendly ways of doing things. Read more here.
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 Food Movements Unite! by Eric Holt-Gimenez
Food Movements Unite! is a collection of essays by food movement leaders from around the world that all seek to answer the perennial political question: What is to be done?
The answers - from the multiple perspectives of community food security activists, peasants and family farm leaders, labor activists, and leading food systems analysts - lay out convergent strategies for the fair, sustainable, and democratic transformation of our food systems. Read more here.
There are more books on GoodFood World and more coming every week.
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 Just Label It: We Have a Right to Know
Did you know 93% of Americans want the FDA to label genetically engineered foods? Watch the new video from Food, Inc. filmmaker Robert Kenner to hear why we have the right to know what's in our food. Click here to watch the video.
There are more videos on GoodFood World and more coming every week.
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 We post a new food-related word or phrase every week. This week's phrase is: Lobster Roll. Find them on the coast of Maine.
The Dictionary of American Regional English is a multi-volume reference that documents words, phrases, and pronunciations as they vary from place to place across the United States.
Read about today's GoodFood Word at DARE.
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