¡Join the fight!
617
Hi, Fair Food Fighters! I'm a film nerd who's been invited to talk about movies: movies about food, movies featuring food, and movies featuring people as food (what? We taste like chicken!).
Despite the sensory loss, movies are still suited to gastronomy; food's so symbolic it's easy to plot around it. Some food movies manage more plot than others, and some do food more justice than others, but even in movies where food isn't crucial, there's meaning behind the meal.
Take the mother of all food films: Babette's Feast. Read more...
The raw milk fight has been heating up over the last year, with various states moving to legalize sales of raw milk. Raw milk dairy farmer Michael Schmidt's fight and win in Canada has certainly been encouraging to raw milk enthusiasts, and the publication of David Gumpert's Raw Milk Revolution, seems to have turned up the heat under the raw milk story, too.
But if I were looking for bigger watershed moments that mightactually change national opinion (or spark a deeper conversation), I'd watch the raw milk legalization debate in Wisconsin right now. Read more...
This Monday, your faithful blogger El Dragón (a.k.a Barth Anderson) will appear on Eco Chicago's Eco Chat at 8:00 PM Central. The featured guest is Jim Slama of Family Farmed, a powerhouse non-profit connecting farmers to solid markets. And I'll be there to, oh, I don't know, provide comic relief. Read more...
Chris Blanchard's report on the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference in la Crosse Wisconsin, held last weekend. Via his blog, Eat Better News Read more...
I was reading this Introduction to a new book by journalist David Kirby called Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment," over at Firedoglake, a book that the author says has three years of research and writing behind it. The Introduction is offered as a blog post and I highly recommend checking it out. Read more...
