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A Labor of Love: From What’s Fresh. I couldn’t express better myself the philosophy and motivation behind growing and selling local food. Be sure to check out the double chocolate zucchini cake recipe, too.
Jumping on the Healthy Food Bandwagon: from Marketing Profs Daily Fix. Food companies (i.e. Kraft, General Mills, Sara Lee) are answering consumer demands for “Less” everything and the perception of healthier product. Along with this is usually a higher price tag. Is this a good thing?
Ecogeek’s Guide to Saying Thanks to Dad: A green giving guide for Father’s Day. This entry begs the question: Can one buy one’s way to environmental responsibility?
Cloned Meat: A logical next step: From Word of Mouth. An unusually non-emotional discourse on the place of cloning in our selective breeding practices. Here is someone who gets that this is more of a non-issue than one worth “media hand-wringing and deep moral debate about Frankenstein Friesians”.
Food Safety During an Emergency: From Momify. Loss of power during an emergency can endanger the food in your refrigerator or freezer. The USDA has published a Guide that includes tips on what to do in floods, power outages and removing odors from freezers and refrigerators. I wish I had seen that last bit last Thanksgiving, when I forgot to turn my frig back on after cleaning it out and then left for a week out at the ranch!
Safe vs. Organic Personal Care Products: from BlogHer’s Green and Ecoconscious section. We touched on this in last week’s Earthlinks. The author (who also blogs on greenLAgirl) points out there is safety and eco-friendly on both sides of the organic fence in this excellent review.
Celebrating Extinction: From Ethicurean. This is a spoof on bluefin tuna extinction so well written that I took it seriously. After my recent mistaking of the “Obesity Causes Global Warming” for a spoof, I’m convinced that it is hard to tell in today’s world what is outrageous and real and what is outrageous and fictional.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:35am
Hahaha, that IS well written! I read in the paper yesterday about the use of comedic satire in translating issues to the common people (the article is here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103898_pf.html), and this is true in food issues as well. It seems like Americans can’t take anything seriously anymore… laughter heals the soul, and affects the news cycle too. The second it’s on the Colbert Report, people start listening.
Also, thank you, DTE, for teaching me to love Ecogeek! I don’t htink someone can buy their way to responsibility, since Earth Day is the new Christmas (ahem), but people have to be convinced to make the right decisions through all kinds of means. Whatever it takes, I suppose.