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A Critical Mass for Real Food

Here, you will see the logic of the modern industrial food system in its rawest form — a logic of prioritizing profit over human and environmental welfare.  Alot has changed in the 400 years since the Elmina Fort was built, but this principle has not gone away. The logic of the plantation is the logic [...]

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Advancing Eco-Agriculture Field Day – Oct 9th in Middlefield, OH

Advancing Eco-Agriculture is an agricultural and horticultural consulting and manufacturing company providing information, consulting services and specialty nutritional materials for use in irrigation systems and foliar applications. The Farm to Consumer Foundation will be at Advancing Eco-Agriculture’s upcoming Field Day on Oct. 9th. To receive information about Advancing Eco-Agriculture, visit their website or check out their [...]

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Career Agribusiness Commentator Says What?

It’s no secret agribusiness tout that the solution to world hunger is to increase GMO food production. Yet 17.2 million households – or 14.5 percent of households (approximately one in seven) – were food insecure in 2010, the highest number ever recorded in the United States (Coleman-Jensen 2011, p. v.). Is big ag really the [...]

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Raw Milk Illnesses and What We Can Do to Curb Them

Our culture teaches us that everything can be worked out by well-meaning people. The emphasis is on “well-meaning.” So, the same tired cycle of verbal and regulatory recrimination repeats itself each time illnesses associated with raw milk occur, neither side really listening to the other, and instead engaged in a propaganda war to convince the [...]

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