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		<title>Northwest Lawmakers Crack Open Egg Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/05/26/northwest-lawmakers-crack-open-egg-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 13:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 SALEM, Ore. &#8211; The Northwest egg industry is changing the way it houses chickens. But animal rights activists in Oregon and Washington say the change isn&#8217;t going far enough. Lawmakers in both Olympia and Salem debated the welfare of egg-laying hens this year. Washington Governor Chris Gregoire has already signed one bill and Oregon lawmakers may vote on another as soon as today. Regardless, opponents in both states are launching ballot initiatives aimed at giving hens even more space. Chris Lehman: &#8220;I&#8217;m standing in a long corridor, surrounded by chickens, 65,000 of them. They&#8217;re stacked four levels high, and their job is to lay eggs.&#8221; Greg Satrum: &#8220;Most people walk into a house like this and they&#8217;re just shocked.&#8221; Greg Satrum is a third-generation chicken farmer near Canby, Oregon, so he&#8217;s used to the sight of chickens crammed into small cages. His family&#8217;s business, Willamette Egg Farms, is the largest egg producer in Oregon. The 65,000 hens in this building are just a fraction of the 1.2 million birds here. The vast majority of the chickens here spend their lives in cages just two feet by two feet. And they&#8217;re not in there by themselves, [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Food Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/11/a-tale-of-two-food-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>“Eating Local: Elitist Fad or Road to Recovery?”</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/04/01/%e2%80%9ceating-local-elitist-fad-or-road-to-recovery%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 18, food writer Ian Brown published the piece “Foodies: Are food crazies getting their just desserts?” in The Globe and Mail. In it, he used the story of a snobby dinner companion sending back an under-salted dish as an example of epicurean elitism. A friend of mine sent back the duck confit we ordered the other night in a restaurant in Toronto. He told the maitre d’ it wasn’t salty enough. He’s a serious and discerning foodie, and I admired his send-back cojones even as I cringed with embarrassment … I understand his right as a paying customer to return the brine-challenged duck. But it felt like too much privilege by half, and one more glaring example of self-indulgent foodism. Brown’s piece was, at its core, a response to two recent articles that have been heralded as a long-overdue backlash against foodies, locavores and others of their ilk: B. R. Myers’ recent ramble, “The Moral Case Against Foodies,” published in The Atlantic and The Economist’s special report on feeding the world, which argues that organic farming is incapable of sustaining the world’s projected 2050 population of 9 billion people. On March 25, recent BW profilee Mark Schatzker—author of Steak: One Man&#8217;s Search for the World&#8217;s Tastiest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Superbug” Book – How Agriculture Helped Create Drug Resistant MRSA</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/24/superbug-book-how-agriculture-helped-create-drug-resistant-mrsa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Goodwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In conversations about agriculture and health, I think the issues raised in the book, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA by Maryn Mckenna, need to be front and center, especially as it relates to CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) and the use of antibiotics as a growth enhancer in animals. The book explains: Food animals get many drugs for many reasons. They get them for disease treatment. They get them for disease prevention&#8230;.Food animals also get antibiotics for &#8220;growth promotion,&#8221; a metabolic mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of industrial-scale farming&#8230;.The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that, of those 29.5 million pounds of antimicrobials given to animals every year, only 2 million of them are actually intended to treat disease. The rest, almost 80% of all antibiotics used in the United States every year, are &#8220;non-therapeutic.&#8221; The process makes human-medicine experts furious. From their point of view, farmers are routinely practicing antibiotic misuse: giving drugs in the absence of disease, and giving them in such small doses that they kill off only vulnerable bacteria and leave the Darwinian battleground clear for the tough ones. Making it worse, many of the animal drugs are identical, or closely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Beef Better: The Search for Great Steak</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/03/18/making-beef-better-the-search-for-great-steak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The flavor of great steak, like the flavor of fine coffee, chocolate or cabernet sauvignon is one of life&#8217;s deep, delicious and darkly subterranean flavors, a taste that can rock you to the bone like the bass line at a blues club. That&#8217;s no doubt why beef is Idaho&#8217;s No. 2 agricultural commodity (behind dairy)&#8211;bringing in nearly a billion dollars in 2009&#8211;and why waiters so frequently recommend steak. There&#8217;s nothing like the way meat eaters hunger for a deliciously primal, often bloody hunk of beef. And there&#8217;s nothing like the sense of betrayal that comes with bad steak. It seems to dishonor the West&#8217;s cowpoke past and fails to consummate that perfect union between beef and Idaho spud&#8211;bad steak happens way too often. After suffering a string of insipid, beef-lite slabs, I begin to wonder if I&#8217;ve just been chasing char-grilled ghosts or some misbegotten memory of an archetypal steak I actually never ate. Then I sink my teeth into a great T-bone, and all that tasteless-steak frustration fades away. At least until next time. Author and food writer Mark Schatzker had the same experience. &#8220;Every time I&#8217;d go out and buy steak,&#8221; he says, &#8220;it seemed to let me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Shoot That Farm!: Making farm photos illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Goodwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Florida legislation Craig Goodwin discusses here—which would make the unauthorized filming or photographing of a farm illegal—has similarities to an Idaho bill designed to protect farming operations from lawsuits and local ordinances. Both suggest that certain segments of the agricultural community are attempting to insulate themselves from public scrutiny at a time when the public is increasingly more interested in the way its food is produced. Update: According to Grist &#8220;industrial farmers have convinced Iowa state lawmakers to move an anti-whistle-blower bill through their state legislature.&#8221; There is a proposed law working its way through the Florida legislature, that would make it illegal to photograph or film farms without the permission of the farmer. The proposed law, that would take effect in July, reads: &#8220;A person who enters onto a farm or other property where legitimate agriculture operations are being conducted without the written consent of the owner, or an authorized representative of the owner, commits a felony of the first degree&#8230; A person who photographs, video records, or otherwise produces images or pictorial records, digital or otherwise, at or of a farm or other property where legitimate agriculture operations are being conducted without the written consent of the owner, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Sugar Beet</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/02/18/meet-the-sugar-beet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Making Milk Real: The trend toward small dairies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This was formerly the Smith&#8217;s Dairy,&#8221; says Bill Stoltzfus of the building he bought in 2007, just a block south of Buhl&#8217;s town square. &#8220;The place had been in the Smith family for 70-some years.&#8221; This modest cream-colored bottling plant and the soft-spoken man who now runs it hardly look like players in a new, national agricultural movement. But they are. Stoltzfus, a lifelong dairyman, moved to Idaho in 1992 from Pennsylvania&#8217;s once pastoral dairy country. He still carries a hint of the rural East in his voice and a lasting love of the small dairy farms that dot his home state. &#8220;We do a non-homogenized whole milk, a 2 percent and a low-fat milk,&#8221; Stoltzfus says as he shows me around the pleasantly old-fashioned retail space that fronts his bottling plant. Behind the counter are 24 flavors of homemade ice cream. &#8220;We also are planning on trying to get into some cottage cheese and possibly some yogurt and do our own artisan cheese.&#8221; Most modern dairymen have gone a very different route than Stoltzfus. The Idaho dairy industry has grown explosively in the last decade. Fed in part by factory dairies fleeing more tightly regulated places like California, dairy [...]]]></description>
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