- let your cows free!

Another reason to drink organic milk: A British report finds that “milk from cows which graze outside on grass and clover contains more antioxidants and vitamins than that from conventional dairy farms,” the UK Independent tell us today.

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- more of us are plowing up our lawns

“This year, 39 percent of people with backyards told the Garden Writers Association they planned to grow vegetables,” the Christian Science Monitor tells us.
Recent spikes in gas and food prices this spring are turning many in the USA to home-food production, it seems.
We welcome that, of course. We’ve been excited about the whole ‘eat [...]

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- contra organic food

It’s always worthwhile having one’s most deeply-held convictions challenged. That must have been the thinking behind the UK Independent’s decision to publish today an article arguing against organic food.
“The great organic myths: Why organic foods are an indulgence the world can’t afford,” is by ‘environmental expert’ Rob Johnston.
Among the ‘myths’ Johnston lists are that [...]

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- wanting to give up on organics

You’d think that as we reap the environmental, health and political consequences of industrial farming techniques that consume vast quantities of fossil fuels, degrade soils and leave us with poor diets, organic produce would become ever more popular.
But two recent New York Times stories reveal a counter-intuitive, but important, reality: that as the problems associated [...]

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