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Pig Business Exposes the Grisly Inner Workings of the Pork Industry

| Published March 11, 2010

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Image credit: Grist

Pig business is not an easy documentary to watch. First of all, the images of the inner workings of pig farms and slaughterhouses can turn the stomach of even the most steadfast meat-eater. Second, and more significantly, the film has not been—and likely never will be—released in the United States. This means that American viewers are relegated to ingesting the film in 10-minute segments via YouTube….Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Business & Politics, Culture & Celebrity, Food & Health, agriculture | Tagged american viewers, minute segments, pig business, pig farms, pork industry | Leave a comment

Young Farmers are Combining Politics with Pitchforks

| Published March 11, 2010

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Image credit: Good

The life of a farmer is a difficult one—meaning, for most, years of hard work, little money, and even less appreciation. Maybe it is this reason that passing down the family farm has become an increasingly difficult proposition….Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Business & Politics, Food & Health, agriculture | Tagged Combining, Credit, image credit, money, young farmers | Leave a comment

Arctic Doomsday Vault Now Has Half Million Samples – Becomes World’s Most Diverse Collection of Saved Seeds

| Published March 11, 2010

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photo: Mari Tefre/Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The doomsday Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway–begun as protection against any potential future calamity that threatens global food production–just turned two years old and has also just passed the half million mark in terms of seed varieties saved. This makes it the most diverse collection of crop diversity anywhere in the world. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Food & Health, agriculture, biodiversity, farming, global climate change | Tagged crop diversity, doomsday vault, future calamity, global food production, seed varieties | Leave a comment

EU Says It Will Back Bluefin Tuna Trade Ban – And Then There Was Japan…

| Published March 11, 2010

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photo: Yusuke Kawasaki via flickr.

The US has agreed to back an international ban on trade in critically endangered bluefin tuna, and now the European Union nations will do so as well, with Malta being the only dissenting vote. That still leaves us with Japan, which consumes about 80% of the world’s bluefin tuna, saying it won’t participate when <a href="http://www.cites.org/…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Business & Politics, Food & Health, endangered species, european union, fish, fishing, japan | Tagged bluefin tuna, dissenting vote, international ban, kawasaki, yusuke | Leave a comment

Starbucks’ Farmers Discuss the Impact of Fairtrade

| Published March 11, 2010

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Images by B. Alter

It’s been Fairtrade Fortnight, and in celebration Starbucks has released a special new Fairtrade coffee from Rwanda. It’s part of their complete switch-over last year to selling only 100% Fairtrade espresso-based coffees in the UK and Ireland. This makes Starbucks the largest buyer of Fairtrade Certified Coffee in the world which is pretty impressive, no matter what you think of them.

This TreeHugger was invited to a Starbucks tasting and informal discussion with coffee farmers and producers from Costa Rica and Tanzania. As a long-time anything-but-Starbucks coffee drinker, I att…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in FairTrade, Food & Health, community development, conservation, water consumption | Tagged coffee drinker, coffee farmers, fairtrade coffee, starbucks, treehugger | Leave a comment

Freakonomics Watch: “The Primitive Food Movement”

| Published March 10, 2010

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The first Freakonomics book was a lot of fun; the second less so, as it sort of devolved into “if the scientific consensus and/or coast-hugging liberal elite are for it, we are against it” type of thing. Hence Freakonomics Watch; or perhaps it should be called James McWilliams Watch, since he appears to be the contributor to their blog with the most attitude about anything green. Now he is on about The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement, where “Bicycles are losing gears, runners are afoot in shoes designed to create a barefoot sensation (some are even running barefoot), and m…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Food & Health, food, local food, michael pollan | Tagged devolved, food movement, freakonomics book, liberal elite, treehugger | Leave a comment

Can Fish Stay on Restaurant Menus? Chef Dan Barber Explores Revolutionary Approach to Fish Farming (Video)

| Published March 10, 2010

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Photo via casers jean

How do we keep fish on the menu? Chef Dan Barber asked this question at the recent TED 2010 event. Farmed fish is a problematic issue – sustainable fish farming is even more so. What’s sustainable, and is farmed fish ever really sustainable? Are there any fish that we can keep on the menu and feel confident that we aren’t eating our way towards a filthy ocean devoid of life? Barber gives a hilarious talk as he describes is journey to find out exactly how we can keep fish on restaurant menus, and cites a particularly perfect fish being raised through a …Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Food & Health, farming, fishing, food security, pollution | Tagged casers, fish farming, problematic issue, restaurant menus, revolutionary approach | Leave a comment

Cathy Erway on The Art of Eating In: The TreeHugger Interview

| Published March 10, 2010

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Photo via Goodlifer

Cathy Erway is an acclaimed food writer and sustainability activist based in New York City. Two or so years ago, she renounced the consumptive culinary culture of the big apple, and set out to eat in–for every meal. An ambitious undertaking in a city practically built on dining out. Erway documented the ordeal on her blog Not Eating Out in New York, where she shared her trials and tribulations, insights on the sustainable benefits of cooking at home, and her favorite new recipes. We caught up with Erway to discuss her n…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Food & Health, agriculture, food, health | Tagged ambitious undertaking, cooking at home, culinary culture, food writer, sustainable benefits | Leave a comment

Should Cell Phone Towers Be Put on Residential Buildings?

| Published March 10, 2010

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Image: Lloyd Alter

Between the upgrading of existing systems and the licencing of new carriers, the rooftop landscape of Toronto, Canada is changing rapidly as new antennae are added daily. While TreeHugger has discussed the question of cell phone safety many times, we are usually talking about the phone itself, where users have some control, rather than the base stations, where residents in apartment buildings with base stations on the roof do not. Is this exposure dangerous? A recent installation raises some questions….Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Food & Health | Tagged apartment buildings, cell phone safety, cell phone towers, residential buildings, toronto canada | Leave a comment

Nitrogen’s Impact on Public Health

| Published March 9, 2010

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Image credit: Grist

Imagine a hot summer day in a town surrounded by glistening pools of water. Now imagine that no one is swimming—that they can’t because the water has been contaminated with a potentially dangerous, yet common, pollutant. For many, this terrible thought is a reality and the culprit is nitrate….Read the full story on TreeHugger

Posted in Food & Health, agriculture, pollution | Tagged grist, hot summer day, image credit, pools of water, terrible thought | Leave a comment
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