Slow food lessons in the fast food midwest
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Model for Calculating area needed to grow your own food.
Thoughts on much area it takes to grow on’s food.
What the World Eats
Back to the future
H.O.P.E.S. Conference
Dan Barber’s Parable
Vertical Farming: A solution to food insecurity?
http://www.unitedyam.com/golb/urban-greenhouse/
This might be especially of interest to the Technoregon group, but I thought this was an interesting look at a proposed vertical farming project in Europe. Although I believe innovative solutions to growing food insecurity are essential, I have to worries about vertical farming:
1) Energy inputs. How much energy does it take to build and maintain a facility like this?
2) Does this still distance consumer from where our food comes from, the ground?? I feel like seeing food grown in these giant buildings still causes a disconnect in the food production cycle, and it will leave consumers, especially kids, not realizing how dependent they are on the soil/air/nutrients that are what truly grows food.
Blueberries… or Blue #2?
This video by FoodInvestigations.com shows the extremely deceptive marketing ploys many companies use when selling foods that are contain “blueberries”. Next time you’rr out at the store picking up a box of something with scrumptious looking blueberries on the cover, it’s imperative you look at the ingredients to make sure that you’re really getting blueberries and not the ‘ol switcheroo of Blue #’s 1 & 2, Red #40, various sweeteners and blueberry “puree” (if you’re lucky). These sort of deceptive marketing practices are disgusting; they make it hard for those who may want to eat a bit healthier by tricking them into thinking they are, when in reality the food they buy is anything but.
http://tv.naturalnews.com/e-video.asp?v=7EC06D27B1A945BE85E7DA8483025962&s=1
Civic Agriculture 