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Part Time Vegetarian

Video: Graham Hill's TED talk on the benefits of being a vegetarian some of the time, via TED.com

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Foie Gras Wars Back On

Foie Gras au Torchon/photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman

I spotted a tiny news item in this morning's Plain Dealer, culled from The San Francisco Chronicle reports, and was thrilled to see people like Thomas Keller, Michael Chiarello, Tyler Florence, and scores of other chefs beginning to protest California’s hypocritical and uninformed ban on foie gras that goes into effect this summer. (Watch news story video from KCRA.) While likely begun as self-aggrandizing soap-boxing by former state Senator John Burton in 2004 (read his LA Times op-ed reasoning), as it was done by Chicago City Council Alderman Joe Moore in 2007, embarrassing the city, which repealed the law in 2008, we’re hoping that California legislators evaluate their actual motives for the ban. If they truly care about the humane treatment of the animals we ...

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Costing Out Our Food

How much does it cost to grow the food we eat? Farmer Ben James answers this question, via The Atlantic.

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Florida Tomatoes Pickers

Video: Perennial Plate visits the Florida to meet the people who pick tomatoes and show us a window into their daily life, via Perennial Plate.

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Buying Local Lamb

A while ago I wrote about Aaron Miller (above, photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman) and his grassfed beef, which I've found to be astonishingly succulent for 100% grassfed (it's all in how you treat the grass, he says; you are what you eat, even if you're a cow). We cooked his turkey at Thanksgiving.  He also raises excellent pigs. And now he's started a lamb program,  available by order from their site.  I cooked some for Jonathon Sawyer, chef at The Greenhouse Tavern, and he took one smell and said, "You can smell it's grass-fed!" Aaron and his wife Melissa are part of growing number of small farmers raising animals on grass. I'd love for more bloggers to post links to livestock farmers in their area raising animals for food, sustainably and well. If ...

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