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Restoring Heritage Cuisines and Indigenous Agroecosystems to Address Obesity, Malnutrition and Trauma – ICTMN.com
One of the consequences of the conquest and settlement of North and South America by Europeans was the displacement and destruction of native biological and cultural diversity. The environmental historian Alfred Crosby has called the European invasion of the Americas [sic] a biological conquest and a form of “ecological imperialism.”
How Monsanto Is Sabotaging Efforts to Label Genetically Modified Food | Food | AlterNet
As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to take shape in the halls of the United States Congress, the immense influence of corporate interests is on display.
Coming Soon: Behind the Kitchen Door & The Hands That Feed Us | IMAGINE 2050
We’ve heard an awful lot in the last few years about what’s happening to our food before it arrives on our plate. But little focus has been paid to what’s happening to the people who put the food on the plate. Thanks to a number of organizations, that’s about to change.
Big Agriculture’s Big Secrets: 9 Things You Need to Know About the Food You Eat | Personal Health | AlterNet
hanks to factory farming’s massive economies of scale, a lot of food today is disgusting or cruel or disgusting and cruel. Just when people stopped talking about cantaloupes with deadly listeria, “pink slime” hit the news. And just when people stopped talking about pink slime, ground beef treated with ammonia to kill germs, mad cow … Continue reading
