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Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Ecologist Guide to Food - a major new book lifting the lid on the food industry''s secrets Ecologist Guide to Food by Andrew Wasley, with a foreword from Zac Goldsmith Published February 10th 2014 by Leaping Hare Press Price £9.99 MORE
On just a tenth of an acre (6000 square feet) in Berkeley, California, the owners of an average home in an average neighborhood are doing something most of us have never tried: they grow nearly all their own food. My grandparents generation they raised a significant portion of their own food. MORE
America''s leading natural foods grocery, Whole Foods Market, debuts Whole Journeys—tours that offer foodies "exclusive interaction" with farmers, chefs, wineries, cheesemakers, as well as excursions to indigenous food festivals. MORE
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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Aside from seed control in the European Union it would appear that attempts are made in other places around the world too to control the foods we eat, such as outlawing foraging for wild edibles, aka edible weeds. It was Henry Kissinger in the 1970s who said, just before the supposed “oil crisis” that if you want to control nations you have to control fuel and if you want to control people you have to control food. food from parks food control food MORE
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We have all done it many times, thrown perfectly good food into the trash. According to the Food Waste Reduction Alliance 25 to 40% of food grown, processed, and transported in the United States will never be consumed. Food waste is also terrible for the environment. MORE
Learn the simple wisdom of putting food by to keep your household stocked with fresh, nutritious fare year-round. One of the best ways to eat a local, seasonal diet year-round is to preserve some foods during their most abundant time (just look at what’s piled up at the farmer’s market). MORE
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