<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Northwest Food News &#187; environmental pollution</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/tag/environmental-pollution/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:01:48 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>B29 Streatery&#8217;s Fat-astic Grilled Cheese</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/08/25/b29-streaterys-fat-astic-grilled-cheese/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/08/25/b29-streaterys-fat-astic-grilled-cheese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Gross</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Restaurant Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Right Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brick 29 Bistro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food truck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nampa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of Idaho Food]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=6402</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine once said that at most, you could add tomato or bacon to a grilled cheese sandwich. Anything further and you&#8217;ve got a different sandwich. The grilled cheese at B29 Streatery, the new food truck from the folks at Brick 29 Bistro in Nampa, is another sandwich altogether. Beyond the cheese and bread, it is also loaded with pulled pork and dressed up in jalapeno aioli. But even the cheese ain&#8217;t yo mama&#8217;s grilled cheese, unless your mother is Czech. The half-inch-thick slice of jack is breaded and fried like smazeny syr, a traditional food available on most street corners in Prague. &#8220;We wanted to have something that was different from a standard grilled cheese,&#8221; Brick 29 chef Greg Lamm said. &#8220;But we also wanted something that could be cooked faster. A standard grilled cheese has to sit on a flat-top for awhile.&#8221; Lamm said they got there by a lot of experimentation. They&#8217;d heard about a food truck in Chicago that used battered cheese, so they decided to give it a shot, going through 10-12 versions before eventually settling on tempura batter. Piled high on white bread just barely too thin to qualify as Texas Toast, the sandwich [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/08/25/b29-streaterys-fat-astic-grilled-cheese/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Right to Farm vs. the Public&#8217;s Right to Know</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/15/right-to-farm-vs-the-publics-right-to-know/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/15/right-to-farm-vs-the-publics-right-to-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edible Idaho Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of Idaho Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal cruelty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm bills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmer's market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedlots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetically modified crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gm controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Right to Farm Bill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=5391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, Alma Hasse walked purposely, head down, toward a red brick building. The Jerome County Courthouse held a mountain of files on the county&#8217;s dairy CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations, and Hasse wanted a look at them. She and her agricultural watchdog group, Idaho Concerned Area Residents for the Environment believed that Idaho&#8217;s factory farms weren&#8217;t being adequately monitored or regulated. That&#8217;s why she and a small group of her members burst into the county offices on that dreary December afternoon, requesting to see the CAFO records. But it soon became clear the group wouldn&#8217;t get what it wanted. The office staff, caught off guard and obviously not prepared to respond to that rare and forceful request for files, complied hesitantly, but within minutes Jerome County Commissioner Charlie Howell and County Planner Nancy Marshall arrived and asked the group to give the records back. Faces reddened, voices rose and soon a Jerome County cop arrived, looking as confused as everyone else. Marshall said the county simply didn&#8217;t have an employee available to sit with the group as they pored over files. Hasse&#8217;s daughter, Shavan, demanded that Marshall cite the county code allowing her to withhold the requested [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/15/right-to-farm-vs-the-publics-right-to-know/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/0415GH_AgLegislation.mp3" length="1680679" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Tale of Two Food Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/11/a-tale-of-two-food-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/11/a-tale-of-two-food-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmer's market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedlots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food movement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=5350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to get all Dickensian when looking at what’s happening across the agriculture landscape. As the spring growing season begins, there are plenty of examples sprouting that suggest that, in terms of food and farming, we are indeed living in the best of times and, if not the worst of times, some pretty disconcerting ones. First the the best of times. This coming weekend some of Idaho’s 55-and-counting farmers’ markets will set up their stands for the season. Here in the Treasure Valley, the Capital City Public Market in Boise and the Eagle Saturday Market in Eagle will both open on Saturday, April 16th. As I’ll report in the April 20th Boise Weekly and the following Friday’s Edible Idaho radio program on KBSX 91.5, Idaho’s farmers’ markets have more than doubled in number in the last five years. And they’ve added all kinds of new, user friendly features like EBT, social networking, interactive online maps, cooking classes and countless other embellishments to make shopping for fresh, local food easier and more fun. The best single feature of the farmers’ market system, though, is also its oldest: Transparency. That one-on-one, face-to-face contact between grower and eater instantly shortens our often [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/11/a-tale-of-two-food-systems/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Water Footprint on Your Plate</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/06/the-water-footprint-on-your-plate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/06/the-water-footprint-on-your-plate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara Arkle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of Idaho Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water quality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=5304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent rains and sunny weather have got me thinking about spring, planting vegetable gardens — and the water footprint of food production. This time of year, as farmer&#8217;s markets open up after a winter hiatus and Idaho starts to offer fruits and vegetable again, I’m reminded that producing food in much of Idaho requires one scarce thing — water. Whether from my vegetable garden or the grocery store, the food we purchase and enjoy has a water footprint. Depending on what food is grown and the size of the farming operation, the footprint can be a large one or a small one. It’s a question of scale. Agriculture and food production is obviously a major piece of Idaho’s heritage and current economy. We raise beef, produce enough milk to rank 3rd in the nation, grow alfalfa, potatoes, onions, sugar beets, hops, and much, much more. Both water consumption and quality are part of the total water footprint of food production. Whether diverted from rivers through irrigation canals to a farm or pumped up from underground, it’s surprising how much water is needed to irrigate Idaho’s crops. Worldwide, agriculture accounts for 70% of water use. In Idaho, where agriculture is [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/06/the-water-footprint-on-your-plate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Meet the Sugar Beet</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/02/18/meet-the-sugar-beet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/02/18/meet-the-sugar-beet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edible Idaho Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slide Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of Idaho Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amalgamated Sugar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foodways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE sugar beets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetically modified crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM sugar beets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Hand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monsanto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sugar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sugar beets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sugar cane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sugar history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tradition]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=4869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember seeing them along the roadside. As a kid growing up in rural Idaho, those orphaned gray lumps were a common sight. I even kicked one once, then picked it up, dusted it off and bit into it. That was a mistake. I hadn&#8217;t thought much about sugar beets since, at least until they hit the news as one more of Monsanto&#8217;s contested, genetically modified crops. Like GM alfalfa, GM sugar beets are thought to pose a threat to organic farming by potentially spreading their tinkered-with genetic code via pollen to other crops. Because of that risk, a federal judge banned this spring&#8217;s planting of so-called Roundup Ready sugar beets, a biotech beet modified to withstand Roundup, a Monsanto herbicide that kills weeds but not the genetically immune beet itself. But then,two weeks ago, the United States Department of Agriculture partially lifted that ban prompting environmental groups to file suit and the sugar beet industry to file counter suit. This not-so-sweet courthouse controversy got me thinking. Too often the only time the average eater hears about commodities like sugar beets or alfalfa is when they get tangled in the courts. The botanical fundamentals get lost. Just what the heck is [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/02/18/meet-the-sugar-beet/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/0218GH_SugarBeet.mp3" length="1911611" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/" length="0" type="Array" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>GM Alfalfa Creeps Back into the News</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/28/gm-alfalfa-creeps-back-into-the-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/28/gm-alfalfa-creeps-back-into-the-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edible Idaho Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Left Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year of Idaho Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alfalfa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetically modified crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM foods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monsanto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable agriculture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=4663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This from Barry Estabrook, former contributing editor at Gourmet magazine and now regular contributor to the the New York Times, the Washington Post, and TheAtlantic.com: &#8220;On Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) had approved the unrestricted planting of genetically modified alfalfa sold by Monsanto Co. and Forge Genetics, despite protests from organic groups and public health advocates and comments from nearly 250,000 citizens asking the department to keep this GMO genie in its bottle. With this announcement, the Obama administration showed whose side it is on in the battle between proponents of sustainable, organic agriculture and the big businesses that profit from conventional, chemical agriculture. Big Ag won. It wasn&#8217;t even close.&#8221; Idaho is at the center of this issue.  Here&#8217;s an Edible Idaho interview I did back in 2007 with writer Matt Jenkins, who had recently written a story on the controversy over genetically modified alfalfa for High Country News.  As you&#8217;ll see, genetically modified crops are as contentious today as they were back then. There&#8217;s a drama playing out in an unlikely place: the alfalfa fields of southern Idaho.  It pits farmer against farmer in a struggle that could shape the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/28/gm-alfalfa-creeps-back-into-the-news/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/edibleidaho_ep013_gmalfalfa.mp3" length="5740503" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Locavore or Globavore?: The Debate Over Local Food</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/10/04/locavore-vs-globavore-the-debate-over-local-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/10/04/locavore-vs-globavore-the-debate-over-local-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edible Idaho Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm to table]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmer's market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedlots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetically modified crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gm controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Hand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idaho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food backlash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local food movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[locavore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=3473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[HOST INTRO] The local food movement is growing in popularity.  Back in 2007, the Oxford English Dictionary declared “locavore” the word of the year.  In 2009 and 10, the National Restaurant Association called local food “America’s No.1 restaurant trend.” But popularity breeds polarization.  A series of articles and at least one upcoming book have called the local food movement “a marketing fad and a dangerous distraction from the true impact of modern food production.”  In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand listens to the growing debate over local food. Tan: We first met in August of 2009 and it was a huge success. Hand: Television producer and reporter Thanh Tan remembers when she started a local food dinner group here in Boise. Tan: There was I think about 25 of us who actually showed up and my first dish for the group was Julia Child&#8217;s boeuf bourguignon, which was hard work, but I used local wine, local beef, local a lot of things, so it just kind of caught on.  The group decided this is really fun, let&#8217;s try to meet again next month.  So we did. Hand: Tan’s monthly locavore dinner group quickly ballooned to 40 people.  [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/10/04/locavore-vs-globavore-the-debate-over-local-food/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.nwfoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/1004GH_Backlash.mp3" length="2567490" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Northwest Oyster Industry Profitting from Gulf Oil Spill? Nope.</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/06/15/northwest-oyster-industry-profitting-from-gulf-oil-spill-nope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/06/15/northwest-oyster-industry-profitting-from-gulf-oil-spill-nope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Northwest News Network</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aquaculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf Oil Spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oysters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=2941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The gulf oil spill has shut down the oldest oyster shucking operation in the country. You might think that would translate into more business for Northwest oyster growers. But it’s not that simple. Correspondent Austin Jenkins explains. The P&#38;J Oyster Company has been in operation in New Orleans for 134 years. Not any longer. The company has halted operations because oil from the BP spill has made it into its harvesting grounds. Bill Dewey is with Northwest oyster giant Taylor Shellfish. He says the last thing he’s thinking about is whether this is good for his business. He calls the folks at P&#38;J his good friends. Dewey: “We’re sick about what’s happening there in the Gulf. And we’re not out there trying to capture their markets, we’re more interested in trying to figure out ways to help them.” Dewey says oyster prices and demand did go up after Hurricane Katrina. That could happen again. But he notes that Pacific oysters are different from Eastern and Atlantic ones. Plus, oysters from Washington and Oregon are farmed and it takes two to four years to grow them to market size. Dewey says he can’t just ramp up production overnight. Copyright 2010 Northwest [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/06/15/northwest-oyster-industry-profitting-from-gulf-oil-spill-nope/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://indemand.nwpr.wsu.edu/NWPR/HomepageArticles/audio/061110Oysters.mp3" length="501551" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Manure Lagoon Spills Into Snohomish River</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/04/18/manure-lagoon-spills-into-snohomish-river/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/04/18/manure-lagoon-spills-into-snohomish-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Northwest News Network</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manure lagoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manure spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=2469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(GH: From Northwest Public Radio): Posted: Friday, April 16, 2010 Snohomish, WA &#8211; Officials still don&#8217;t know what caused a huge manure lagoon at a dairy farm near the town of Snohomish to fail earlier this week. A breach in the dyke that held the manure caused millions of gallons of liquid waste to run into a nearby river. Some of it then flowed into the Snohomish. Officials are working to determine the impact on water quality in the area. Correspondent Carolyn Beeler has more. Larry Altose: “We&#8217;re right now standing across the creek from where this occurred.&#8221; Larry Altose is with the Washington State Department of Ecology. Altose: &#8220;So just on the other side of the creek you can even see the berm, which is the rise that is covered with vegetation. Had this been a normal day there would have been millions of gallons of dairy waste stored safely behind it. When the dyke failed it collapsed leaving a 30-40 foot gap in this 15-foot high earthen dyke, and through that opening there flowed a torrential flow of water spread out perhaps a thousand feet and from there it flowed into the river.” Like most farms, the Bartelheimer [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/04/18/manure-lagoon-spills-into-snohomish-river/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://indemand.nwpr.wsu.edu/NWPR/HomepageArticles/audio/041610manure.mp3" length="1400999" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Cow Power To Horsepower, making mileage on manure</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/02/13/cow-power-to-horsepower-making-mileage-on-manure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/02/13/cow-power-to-horsepower-making-mileage-on-manure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Northwest News Network</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Hand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[methane digesters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nwfoodnews.com/?p=2127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(GH: Tom Banse of The Northwest News Network reports on converting cow manure to electricity on Northwest Public Radio) BELLINGHAM, WA – When you think of what federal economic stimulus money has paid for, the first things that come to mind might be highway paving, energy retrofits or high-speed trains. Now here’s one of the most unconventional stimulus projects we’ve heard of. An institute at Western Washington University is getting half a million dollars to examine how to convert cow manure into horsepower. From Bellingham, correspondent Tom Banse explains. Five years ago, dairy farmer Darryl Vander Haak flipped the switch on the first poop-to-power generator in Washington State. Officially, the facility near Lynden, Washington is known as a methane digester. Manure from around a 1000 cows goes in one end. Then controlled decomposition yields methane gas. It’s burned like natural gas in an electric generator. The rub is, electricity sales haven’t been very profitable, or profitable at all says dairyman Vander Haak. Darryl Vander Haak: “We’re looking for alternative ways. The Northwest has too much hydropower to compete with. It would be easier to compete with the gas companies, I guess.” That’s why Vander Haak was open minded when the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/02/13/cow-power-to-horsepower-making-mileage-on-manure/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://indemand.nwpr.wsu.edu/NWPR/HomepageArticles/audio/021110Cowpower.mp3" length="1265371" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

