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World Food Day is a sad observance, it could be a celebration

Cross posted on La Vida LocavoreSo, how many people know that October 16th is World Food Day (WFD) and how many people know what WFD is and how many people care?I'm guessing not many could answer yes...

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Obama is good, but---

Cross posted on La Vida LocavoreJohn McCain and Barack Obama need to answer some serious questions.  In a year marked by a world wide food crisis, melamine tainted food, energy shortages, climate...

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Some Will go Hungry, Others Will Get Sick

After reading A Hungry Thanksgiving for Many Americans by OrangeClouds115 http://www.dailykos.com/... I started thinking that in spite of the fact that many will be going hungry on Thanksgiving (like...

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Food Is Different

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, while we eat, hopefully, we will be thinking about the food, where it comes from, who produces it and at what cost.Food Is Different: Why the WTO Should Get Out of...

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A REAL "Change we can believe in" Dumping Industrial Agriculture

With the arrival of 2009, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) notes nearly a billion people a day go hungry worldwide. While India supplies Switzerland with 80% of its wheat, 350...

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Hard Times in Rural America

My family has been farming the same land since 1848, when the potato famine drove them out of Ireland. Over the past 160 years there have been good times and bad, times of prosperity and wars that...

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Worker injustice in Immokalee

cross posted on LaVida LocavoreThe name Immokalee Florida has come up many times, just another place where migrant workers were paid low wages for doing work, very hard work, that "Americans won't do"....

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The Health Insurance Industry Doesn't Deserve Our Trust

Farmers often depend on off farm jobs to provide health insurance, if that wasn't an option they could generally afford an individual plan. Farming is one of the most dangerous occupations in America,...

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'Deathers' One, Obama Zero

Open town meetings were supposed to be a forum for open, civil discussion between citizens and their elected representatives. The 'deathers', who insist a government run health insurance system could,...

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Why Honor Organized Labor?

Cross posted on LaVida LocavoreLabor Day, to most people, is little more than the end of summer. Labor Day commemorates the labor union movement, the demand for an eight hour work day, better working...

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Why are (some) farmers afraid of Michael Pollan?

Author Michael Pollan is no stranger to controversy. He has broadened the discussion of what we eat, where and how it is grown, big vs. small, organic farming vs. conventional. When he  speaks some in...

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Obama's message of "Hope" is dead

Studs Terkel, the eternally optimistic author of Hope Dies Last was always a champion of the little guy. The health care legislation we can expect from Congress still leaves millions of Americans...

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