Stuffed and Starved | Your daily source for food politics, and updates from the battle for the world's food system

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Posted on 27 November, 2006 - 07:50

Putting the $ in E.Coli.

Joel Bleifuss, investigative journalist extraordinaire, has a fine article up at In These Times dealing with the the real source of the E.Coli contamination. Yes, we know it comes from poo, but quite how did we end up eating so much shit? Bleifuss nails it with customary precision:

where others see a mountain of E-coli 157 contaminated, factory farm cow shit, the sludge industry—which lobbies under the National Biosolids Partnership (a joint venture of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, the Water Environment Federation and EPA)—sees opportunity: Tons upon tons of cattle feces waiting to be processed. ... read more »

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Posted on 27 November, 2006 - 07:29

Get Involved

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Posted on 27 November, 2006 - 00:49

The Book & Events

This website accompanies a book called Stuffed and Starved. Buy your copy at your local independent bookstore or find it online at Bookfinder.com.

This page has details on the book, events, updates and reviews.

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Posted on 27 November, 2006 - 00:48

Resources

In the future, this page will help you to find organisations and activists in your area, no matter where you live. And if you're interested in helping the project along (especially if you're a MySQL whizz) do drop a line!

For the moment, US users can Search by Zipcode and visitors from other countries can search by tagged location - Click on Search , choose "Advanced", and scroll down the categories to find the country, region or city you're interested in. ... read more »

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Posted on 27 November, 2006 - 00:30

Teaching your mother how to suck McEggs

The BBC informs us that among the many services immigrants are offered when they come to the US, is a

state-funded programme to improve the nutrition of refugees who are being re-settled in the land of plenty.

"First we are most concerned about whether they will understand how to eat American food," says Shana Willis, with the non-profit refugee resettlement agency Heartland, one of the project co-ordinators.

"They did not only not understand how to eat American food, but they went immediately to the junk food and it was then that we realised, this is going to have a much more important impact than we anticipated." ... read more »

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Posted on 26 November, 2006 - 21:42

Lake Merrit Farmers Market rocks

Every Saturday, rain or shine, LMFM does the dirty.

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Posted on 13 November, 2006 - 18:21