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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>“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>Making Milk Real: The trend toward small dairies</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/21/making-milk-real/</link>
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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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		<title>As Agribusiness Grows, Farmers Get Less and Consumers Pay More</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/01/10/as-agribusiness-grows-farmers-get-less-and-consumers-pay-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Goodwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPOKANE: The Globe and Mail had a story last week that caught my attention titled, &#8220;The Fat Cats of Agribusiness.&#8221; The article references growing concerns about large corporations muscling their way into the food chain, but observes that not much is being said among effected nations because they have become so dependent on these mega-corps. There is one report from Siva Makki at the World Bank in 2008 that sounds the alarm. The market share of the biggies is on the rise, leading to questions about the potential abuse of economic power. In 2004, the top four suppliers of agrochemicals had a 60% share of their market, up from 47% in 1997. In the seed market, the four biggest players had a 33% share in 2004, up from 23%. In some specialized sectors, concentration is much higher. Monsanto’s worldwide share of the market for transgenic soybean seeds, which are easy to protect against weeds, was 91% in 2004&#8230; Is the concentration harming or helping farmers? Makki’s research suggests that farmers are getting ripped off. As sales and prices rise, agribusiness giants are capturing a disproportionate share of the profits. Take coffee. The proportion of the retail price received by the main coffee-producing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let The Year of Idaho Food Begin!</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/12/30/a-year-of-idaho-food-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janie Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone, Here it is the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, the Year of Idaho Food.  This is just an update on what’s happening as we start this campaign. History of the idea. In 2010, the Idaho Legislature passed a resolution, HCR59 IDAHO GROWN FOOD PRODUCTION &#8211; Stating the findings of the Legislature encouraging healthy, Idaho grown food production, distribution and consumption in the state of Idaho; encouraging support of Idaho farming, the consumption of Idaho grown foods and the promotion of greater food self-sufficiency within the state; and further encouraging Idahoans and Idaho businesses to celebrate and get to know their growers and to purchase and consume more food produced in or near Idaho.  http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2010/HCR059.htm Amy Hutchinson and I took the phrase about celebration to heart and were determined to breathe life into the resolution.  Since March of 2010, we have been planning a grassroots, statewide campaign to raise public awareness about the food we eat and to spark discussions about our food future. Intent of the Year of Idaho Food.  Today, most of us give little thought to the role food plays in our lives. Beyond the weekly trip to the grocery store, very few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Food and Farmers</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/11/08/local-food-and-farmers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[HOST INTRO] A just released Zagat survey found that 68 percent of restaurant goers say they prefer locally grown food.  Sixty percent of those would pay more for that food.  That’s good news for the small, but increasing number of farmers and ranchers who grow products for local markets. In this month’s installment of Edible Idaho, producer Guy Hand finds out why Idaho farmers and ranchers are joining the local food movement. (Sounds at farmers’ market) Hand: Today, farmer Janie Burns is selling lamb, chicken and eggs at Boise’s farmers’ market.   She’s the first in her farming-family to become an outspoken advocate of the local food movement.  For Burns, the reasons are obvious. Burns: I think you only have to drive through rural Idaho to see the kind of hollowed out towns, the lack of wealth and you don’t have to be a genius to see that there’s just no money in rural Idaho.  Those rural economies that once depended on agriculture, their money is somewhere else. Hand: Burns says the local food movement not only offers consumers fresh food; it offers struggling farmers and ranchers a way off a poorly-paid, commodity-driven tread mill. Burns: The farmers are captive [...]]]></description>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Update: Massive E. Washington Feedlot Given Go Ahead By Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Northwest News Network</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GH: Northwest News Network correspondent Anna King reports for Northwest Public Radio.) RICHLAND, WA – A massive feedlot north of Pasco, Washington can draw as much water as it needs from a deep well according to a decision by a Franklin County Superior judge today. Dryland wheat farmers who have been fighting the 35,000 cow feedlot were stunned and worried after the ruling. Correspondent Anna King was there. The plaintiffs, including dryland wheat farmers and the environmental group Earthjustice, say Washington State’s water laws were meant for small family operations and didn’t intend industrial farms to pump as much as they want from wells. The defendants were Washington’s Attorney General’s Office and the feedlot’s owners Easterday Ranches. They say there is no clear proof that drawing large amounts of water will dry up neighbors’ wells. After a heated debate over grammar and how the law should be read, the judge ruled in favor of the cattle feedlot. Afterwards, third-generation wheat farmer Blain Dougherty stepped outside. Blain Dougherty: “If my well goes dry I’m done. So what do I do? Haul water or that or pack up and leave the farm.” The owner of Easterday Ranches declined to comment. The cattle [...]]]></description>
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