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New Pasture Rules Issued for Organic Dairy Producers
by By WILLIAM NEUMAN
12 Feb 2010 at 10:00pm
The ruling was cheered by many in the organic industry who said it could force some larger dairies to change how they operate.
For Some, ?Kosher? Equals Pure
by By KIM SEVERSON
12 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm
In an era of heightened concern over food contamination, allergies and the provenance of ingredients, the market for kosher food among non-Jews is setting records.
Reviving New York State?s Grain Belt
by By FLORENCE FABRICANT
5 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm
The grain belt in upstate New York is now being revived and expanded, with specialty grains ground locally into flours and meals.
Farm-to-Table Cuisine in a Homey Package
by By STEPHANIE LYNESS
5 Dec 2009 at 10:00pm
Local produce, prepared in a plain manner that defines ?homemade,? is offered at a place that should not remain undiscovered.
Dutch Cooperative Blurs Food Prejudices
by By FRANK BROWNING
16 Nov 2009 at 10:00pm
In a Europe where conservative attitudes to farming are entrenched and hostility to genetically modified crops is sometimes obsessive, Food Valley is different.
NYT > Local Food
Excerpted from ?If It?s Fresh and Local, Is It Always Greener?? by Andrew Martin, The New York Times, Dec. 9, 2007. The entire article appears below, in the Highlights section.
Unless you have been stuck in the processed-food aisles of your local grocery store for the last couple of years, you have probably noticed that local food is all the rage.
Union Square in Manhattan may offer one of the most popular farmers? markets, but Des Moines isn?t far behind, and top restaurants and college campuses are now demanding local food on the plate.
Books and magazines about local food are selling big, too.
Barbara Kingsolver ate locally produced food on her Virginia farm and wrote a best-selling book about it. So did Michael Pollan, who bagged a wild pig and grubbed for mushrooms in Northern California in a quest for the perfect meal (and readers).
The local food, or locavore, movement has so much momentum that some of the food glitterati have declared that such food is better than organic.
But now comes a team of researchers from the University of California, Davis, who have started asking provocative questions about the carbon footprint of food. Those questions threaten to undermine some of the feel-good locavore story line, not to mention my weekend forays for produce. (A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact of human activities on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced.)
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While the research is not yet complete, Tom Tomich, director of the University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, said the fact that something is local doesn?t necessarily mean that it is better, environmentally speaking.
The distance that food travels from farm to plate is certainly important, he says, but so is how food is packaged, how it is grown, how it is processed and how it is transported to market.
Consider strawberries. If mass producers of strawberries ship their product to Chicago by truck, the fuel cost of transporting each carton of strawberries is relatively small, since it is tucked into the back along with thousands of others.
But if a farmer sells his strawberries at local farmers? markets in California, he ferries a much smaller amount by pickup truck to each individual market. Which one is better for the environment?
Mr. Tomich said a strawberry distributor did the math on the back of an envelope and concluded that the Chicago-bound berries used less energy for transport. Maybe. Regardless, the story raises valid questions.
An Iowa State University study in 2003 found that most produce travels about 1,500 miles before it arrives in Iowa homes. But as the strawberry story suggests, some of it creates higher amounts of greenhouse gases than others. Transporting food by container ship or rail is relatively energy efficient. Shipping it by air or a 25-year-old pickup is not.
Certainly, there are many reasons for eating local food ? from supporting local farmers to a desire for fresher, potentially tastier food. The research in California, however, offers the prospect of a more nuanced debate on eating a low-carbon diet.
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A Balance Between the Factory and the Local Farm
by By DAMON DARLIN
13 Feb 2010 at 10:00pm
Local food sourcing may be desirable, but as a practical matter it is hard for it to feed the who...
Reviving New York State?s Grain Belt
by By FLORENCE FABRICANT
5 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm
The grain belt in upstate New York is now being revived and expanded, with specialty grains groun...
Rare Breeds, Frozen in Time
by By BARRY ESTABROOK
5 Jan 2010 at 10:00pm
A group in Rhode Island has created a fertility bank for heritage livestock, freezing embryos in ...
To Feed the Hungry, Keep the Can, Open a Wallet
by By SUSAN DOMINUS
11 Dec 2009 at 10:00pm
As uncharitable as it may sound, the annual holiday food drives, and the canned goods they bring ...
In Birthplace of Local Food, Fish Imports Take Over the Menu
by By KATHERINE ELLISON
10 Dec 2009 at 10:00pm
Tadich Grill, San Francisco?s oldest seafood restaurant, now serves farmed salmon flown in from S...
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Workout Winner: Chad Clauser, 30, of Bethlehem (The Morning Call)
8 Mar 2010 at 7:16am
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Walk Kansas begins Sunday (The Hays Daily News)
3 Mar 2010 at 11:29am
A successful program in the past, Walk Kansas will kick off in Ellis County again Sunday. The sta...
County could move to four days a week (Austin Daily Herald)
3 Mar 2010 at 6:17am
Mower County may become a pilot project to have county buildings open four days a week instead of...
What Would Make Immigration Reform Real Reform? (New America Media)
3 Mar 2010 at 1:13am
NAM interviews the movers and shakers of the immigration movement on what they want to see as par...
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Americans want US help on food shopping - St. Louis Globe-Democrat
10 Mar 2010 at 10:06pm
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Herpes Infects One in Six in US - Ethiopian Review
10 Mar 2010 at 10:03pm
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Survey: Consumers Favor More Info On Labels - PerishableNews (press release)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:02pm
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Shark groomers in high demand on Great Barrier Reef - Global Surf News
10 Mar 2010 at 10:01pm
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Put CSA fruits and veggies to good use (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:33am
New to community-supported agriculture? Here are tips to make sure your local bounty doesn't go t...
Justice: Baylor's Griner deserves a second chance (Houston Chronicle)
4 Mar 2010 at 11:44pm
19-year-old Brittney Griner did what a lot of other competitive people would have done. She got t...
Deer Consumer Products, Inc. Announces Record 2009 Financial Results, Anticip...
2 Mar 2010 at 5:36am
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2 Mar 2010 at 4:00am
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1 Mar 2010 at 4:55am
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Staying power: Former bodybuilder now has fitness studio in Stillwater (Still...
10 Mar 2010 at 10:52pm
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Aussie Analysis: Have Joel Griffiths And Sasa Ognenovski Caught Pim Verbeek's...
10 Mar 2010 at 10:52pm
A World Cup appearance is unrealistic for the talented duo but do they have a Socceroo future bey...
Outdoors calendar (Asheville Citizen-Times)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:52pm
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Clijsters trying to juggle tennis, motherhood (Slam! Sports)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:50pm
Kim Clijsters' first full season back on the tennis tour is presenting new challenges: figuring o...
CCC president to step down in 2011 (The Corning Leader)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:48pm
Corning Community College President Dr. Floyd ?Bud? Amann announces his retirement at a press con...
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10 Mar 2010 at 10:50pm
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Mexico's Slim Named 'World's Richest' Person - KXLY Spokane
10 Mar 2010 at 10:48pm
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10 Mar 2010 at 10:48pm
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House soiling deserves attention - Tampa Bay Newspapers
10 Mar 2010 at 10:43pm
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5 Signs Of A Fake Value Investor (The Motley Fool)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:14pm
Real value investors don't check their porfolios every few minutes...
Japan?s Five-Year Yields Match Lowest This Year Before Auction (Bloomberg)
10 Mar 2010 at 9:52pm
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Japan?s five-year bond yields matched the lowest this year before the Min...
KIDNEY: WE MUST GUARD AGAINST WELSH SPIRIT (Sporting Life)
10 Mar 2010 at 9:48pm
Ireland coach Declan Kidney admires the never-say-die attitude that he believes makes Wales formi...
EVANS EXCITED BY CALCUTTA CHALLENGE (Sporting Life)
10 Mar 2010 at 9:48pm
Max Evans "just can't wait" for his first taste of a Murrayfield Calcutta Cup clash as he tries t...
WALES PUT IT ON THE LINE AGAINST IRELAND (Sporting Life)
10 Mar 2010 at 9:33pm
Wales coach Warren Gatland believes the lineout battle will be "a massive part" of Saturday's RBS...
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Personalized Medicine Spurred by Medco?s Cost-Saving Gene Tests (BusinessWeek)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:52pm
Medco Health Solutions Inc., the second-biggest U.S. manager of drug benefits, is encouraging doc...
Cellzome Announces Second Major Strategic Drug Discovery Alliance With GlaxoS...
10 Mar 2010 at 10:47pm
Cellzome today announced that it has formed a second strategic alliance with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK...
US farmers worry in run-up to NZ trade deal (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:42pm
New Zealand will open trade talks on Monday for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with the United...
Corvallis emerging as Oregon leader in green waste recycling (The Daily Barom...
10 Mar 2010 at 10:38pm
By Michelle Ofelt The Daily Barometer Green food waste recycling has significantly increased sinc...
Food Recalls From Salmonella May Increase to 10,000 Products (Bloomberg)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:30pm
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Salmonella contamination at a Nevada food-flavoring plant may trigger the...
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Pierce: Five foods you should eat every day (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:08pm
I love the feedback I've received from readers since I started this weight-loss column for The Sh...
McAttack ? critics of Weight Watchers deal wrong, says health consultant (Cri...
10 Mar 2010 at 7:27pm
It's too simplistic to say that sales data from McDonald's would reveal the impact of the deal be...
Supervisors questions newsletter accuracy (Perry County Times)
10 Mar 2010 at 1:24pm
Nancy Valdez of the Penn Twp. Citizens Group addressed township supervisors at their recent meeti...
Calendar of events (The Russellville Courier)
10 Mar 2010 at 1:24pm
Today Fit Girlz workshop, 5:30 a.m., Back 2 Basics Fitness Center. Beth Moore Bible Study, 9 a.m....
What's Cooking (Wilmington Town Crier)
10 Mar 2010 at 11:58am
From Laurie Gullotto?s Wilmington kitchen. (Laurie?s 9 year old wanted to try Tilapia but she is ...
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Pierce: Five foods you should eat every day (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:08pm
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Caracortado, Sidney?s Candy showdown on for San Felipe (Thoroughbred Times)
10 Mar 2010 at 6:09pm
A pair of three-year-olds who delivered eye-opening victories during President?s Day weekend in F...
La Jolla Country Day's Torreys win girls basketball title (La Jolla Light)
10 Mar 2010 at 5:15pm
Ariana Elegado advances the ball against Bishop's. Photo: Andy Hayt D-IV crown is LJCD's ninth ti...
Streak ends for La Jolla High in boys basketball (La Jolla Light)
10 Mar 2010 at 5:00pm
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10 Mar 2010 at 10:52pm
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Central grad Kuntz brings DII swim meet to Canton (The Canton Repository)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:47pm
A Canton Central Catholic swimmer now coaching in Pennsylvania is thrilled to have helped Canton ...
Camping to be first in line for Sloper (The New Britain Herald)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:47pm
SOUTHINGTON ? David Mozelik and his mother Ann spent a recent night camped out a parking lot. But...
Mill Creek YMCA now has twice the room to play (Everett Herald)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:40pm
The renovated and renamed Mill Creek Family YMCA is open, with a new pool, lobby, locker rooms an...
More Regional Sports: (WJFW Rhinelander)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:38pm
PEORIA, AZ - Sean Gallagher and Mat Latos are going to make the battle for the fifth spot in the ...
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Sushi chef charged with serving illegal whale (WXOW 19 La Crosse)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:20pm
Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant on...
Permit required (The East Liverpool Review)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:20pm
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10 Mar 2010 at 10:19pm
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Friends' Central alumni continue to make waves (Main Line Times)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:13pm
WYNNEWOOD ? As the Friends? Central Middle School swim team completed an undefeated season, and t...
Schools, borough mull prof's water test plan (The Patriot-News)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:13pm
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Waratahs on attack for Waugh's record (Brisbane Times)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:54pm
The Waratahs will go on the attack against the Lions on Friday in an attempt to mark inspirationa...
Cougar spotted in Stillwater (Stillwater Gazette)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:54pm
Stillwater is the latest stop on one cougar's journey across the metro area, officials believe.
Landfill odors rise; search on for source (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:54pm
Complaints of foul odors around Findlay's Imperial Landfill have spiked recently, but landfill of...
Tales from old time rock'n'roll (Brisbane Times)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:54pm
LEE Simon wondered whether the rock star he was interviewing was high - a hunch that was confirme...
Cam Inman: Patty Mills revels in Saint Mary's success (San Jose Mercury News)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:54pm
Patty Mills had two tough questions to answer once pleasantries were exchanged over the phone Wed...
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Visit our website (Orangeville Citizen)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:51pm
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10 Mar 2010 at 10:50pm
When the Sewickley Academy boys' basketball team started practice for the season, Carrington Motl...
Bloomingdale: Police Blotter, March 10 (The Record and Herald News)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:43pm
On Saturday, March 6, at 7:16 p.m., Sgt. Michael Boffa stopped a vehicle on Glenwild Avenue.
China inflation accelerates in February (AP via Yahoo! News)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:41pm
China's inflation spiked higher in February, adding to pressure on Beijing to prevent overheating...
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Baylinks: Mid-Market Trouble, Tibet, & Rainbows (SF Weekly Blogs)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:46pm
Is more biking an unintended outcome of poor Muni service and high fares? [Streetsblog]Susie Cagl...
Last Night's Action: A Healthy Rotation (DCist)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:26pm
Tomas Fleischmann (R): What, me worry? (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Capitals 4, Hurricanes 3 (OT): For ...
Your mission: Relaxation, adventure along lush Georgia shoreline (Boston Herald)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:21pm
DARIEN, Ga. - Coastal Georgia is wild, verdant and very not-Florida. It is so not-Florida that 42...
RTC helps Google map bike trails (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
10 Mar 2010 at 10:16pm
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Fashions from the Heart hits runway - Wilton Villager
10 Mar 2010 at 10:30pm
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10 Mar 2010 at 10:15pm
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Sweat it out - Ithaca College The Ithacan
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Henin cruises into second round at Indian Wells - Macon Telegraph
10 Mar 2010 at 10:52pm
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Henin cruises into second round at Indian Wells
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Seyferth's excellence as true scholar-athlete is recognized - Bennington Banner
10 Mar 2010 at 10:52pm
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Seyferth's excellence as true scholar-athlete is recognized
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No word from NBISD, UIL on Unicorn appeal - Herald Zeitung
10 Mar 2010 at 10:51pm
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No word from NBISD, UIL on Unicorn appeal
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Eagle Tennis Compete in Spring Smash Invitational - Johnson City Record Couri...
10 Mar 2010 at 10:51pm
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The Storyteller~~~~ - Johnson City Record Courier, TX
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Creighton's Neuvirth, Schuett earn Valley honors - Omaha World-Herald
10 Mar 2010 at 10:53pm
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Creighton's Neuvirth, Schuett earn Valley honors
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Vaughn leads Cincy over Louisville in Big East - KMPH Fox 26
10 Mar 2010 at 10:52pm
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Vaughn leads Cincy over Louisville in Big East
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Cal State Fullerton turns back Northridge 84-76 - Marin Independent-Journal
10 Mar 2010 at 10:52pm
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Cal State Fullerton turns back Northridge 84-76
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College Basketball Betting Free Picks For Thursday: SEC Tournament
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