Author: Daniela
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Cornucopia Institute Supports Ecological Principles Underlying Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
If you are interested in abating the cruelty perpetrated on animals by industrial agriculture, I highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the Cornucopia Institute, which audits and rates dairy and egg producers on a wide range of ethical standards. They go far beyond “free range” or “organic” labeling and identify producers that really do avoid some…
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How Our Food Choices Impact Our Health, Our Environment, and the Economic Vitality of Our Communities
Mark Kastel is co-founder of The Cornucopia Institute, a progressive farm policy research group based in Wisconsin and director of its Organic Integrity Project. For almost 20 years prior to its launch he was president of M. A. Kastel and Associates, Inc. His professional practice included political consulting, lobbying work on behalf of family farm groups,…
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For Your Enjoyment
Jason Woodbury reviews Pure Bathing Culture’s new album Moon Tide. As members of Vetiver, Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille explored the gauzy textures of Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac (occasionally recalling the hazy mysticism of the Peter Green era, too). The duo recorded at his National Freedom studio in Cottage Grove, Oregon, shortly after moving to the Pacific Northwest from…
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Kintaro The Golden Boy
Lee Jay Walker brings us the art and folklore of Japan’s Kintaro the Golden Boy: Toshidama Gallery comments about the depiction of Kintaro by the artist Utagawa Yoshikazu (pitcure above)by stating that “Yoshikazu portrays Kintaro (the Golden Boy) wrestling one of Yorimitsu’s retainers. Kintaro, as with so many Japanese heroes, is the subject of legend and possibly…
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State Confers Award to Navara Eco Farm for Saving Rare Rice Variety
Mr. Narayanan Unny and his Navara Eco farm are featured in N.J. Prabu’s article in The Hindu. “Navara is a medicinal rice variety and its cultivation is almost extinct. Many reasons such as non-availability of pure seeds, low yield and high production cost are attributed for this. The speciality is that this is the only…
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For Your Entertainment
Tinariwen has a pretty unique sound, making use of traditional West African instruments in addition to rock instrumentation. This has resulted in a unique sound that has recently brought them much attention in the Western world. Artists from the U.S. such as Nels Cline of Wilco and Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio. Lovers…
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The Abatement of Cruelty
Originally posted on The Dish: Matthew Scully has written a powerful, emotional and, to my mind, largely persuasive piece about the moral necessity of changing our collective treatment of farm animals. It is framed – somewhat relentlessly – as an argument designed to make pro-life conservatives look afresh at the moral question of animal cruelty,…
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Ditch the Low Fat Diet and Eat Like an Early Victorian for Better Health
Reposted from “to your Health.” One of the biggest mistakes I see in nutrition is that we that we look at life in these narrow “slices” of time, and think this is how things always have been. We might think that nutritionally, we’re a little worse than a while ago (or not), but we don’t…
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Monsanto Drawing Opposition Across Globe
Increasingly Monsanto is drawing opposition across the globe. In The Times of India Laxmi Prasanna reports on a recent conference held in Thiruvananthapuram that attracted green activists and scientists from around the world. As part of the global call against Monsanto, participants including green activists from 400 cities across the world including Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram will organise…
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Folklore Mondays: Halloween Meltdown ’13 Edition (#1)
Originally posted on The Angry Scholar: To kick off everyone’s favorite month of the year, here’s a short piece on the origins of the Halloween holiday by folklorist Jack Santino, of Bowling Green State University. (I know it’s a week late–you can blame the government shutdown for the delay, as the text I cite here…
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