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		<title>Seeking Genetic Diversity in Abandoned Apple Orchards</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we roared downstream through the River of No Return Wilderness via jet boat, skipping off rapids and dodging just-submerged boulders, I decided my imaginary movie version of this adventure should be titled Indiana Appleseed in the Canyon of Lost Treasure. Naturally it would be packed with whitewater action, pioneer spirit, hungry black bears and most importantly, a whole lot of strange apples. First, the backstory. Sadie Barrett&#8211;who took me on this Salmon River jet boat expedition&#8211;and project partner Candace Burns decided they needed to save the neglected, sometimes century-old apple trees they saw slowly dying all over Idaho&#8217;s Lemhi County. As a kid growing up in Salmon, the 35-year-old Barrett used to munch on apples from trees planted by Idaho&#8217;s early pioneers. But upon returning to her hometown after a 10-year absence, she was stunned by the number of trees that had disappeared. &#8220;They&#8217;d either been built over or just had perished because they hadn&#8217;t been irrigated,&#8221; Barrett said. Barrett and Burns decided this threatened edible heritage shouldn&#8217;t be left to quietly sink into oblivion, so the two women made plans to catalog, take cuttings and graft as many worthy fruit trees as they could find. As we skittered [...]]]></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>Meet the Sugar Beet</title>
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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>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>Pollan calls for farmer incentives to fix crises</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GH) As mentioned in a previous post, Michael Pollan, author of &#8220;The Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma,&#8221; spoke at Washinton State University on Wednesday, January 13th.  Here, from the agricultural weekly Capital Press, is an article on what Pollan had to say. By MATTHEW WEAVER Capital Press PULLMAN, Wash. &#8212; Michael Pollan believes farmers may eventually solve three of the world&#8217;s biggest problems &#8212; the crises centered on energy, health care and climate change. The author of &#8220;The Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma&#8221; outlined his &#8220;sun food agenda,&#8221; advocating a return to a diversified agricultural system, during his lecture at Washington State University on Wednesday, Jan. 13. &#8220;It might be possible to once again harness the power of the sun to feed ourselves and wean ourselves off this diet of fossil fuel,&#8221; he said, referring to the oil and natural gas required to make fertilizer, fuel and pesticides. Today&#8217;s food system more closely resembles a factory model, Pollan said. &#8220;This food chain from which most of us now eat is deeply implicated in three of the most serious problems we face as a society: the energy crisis, the health-care crisis and the climate change crisis,&#8221; he said. Before World War II, the food system was ecologically efficient, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Call to Arms for &#8220;Contemporary Agriculture&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/01/11/a-call-to-arms-for-contemporary-agriculture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE &#8212; Steve Brown of Capital Press quotes president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Bob Stallman as issuing a call to arms to counter criticism of conventional agriculture: &#8220;It is up to us to share the strength of our character and the tradition of our values with our fellow citizens,&#8221; Stallman said at the annual meeting Jan. 10 in Seattle. &#8220;But a line must be drawn between our polite and respectful engagement with consumers and the way we must aggressively respond to extremists who want to drag agriculture back to the days of 40 acres and a mule.&#8221; Stallman described how the media, through films, magazine articles and undercover videos have turned public opinion against what he calls &#8220;contemporary agriculture.&#8221; The Capital Press article says Stallman wants farmers and ranchers to adopt a new attitude, to resist the &#8220;self-appointed and self-promoting food experts&#8221; who seek to damage the reputation of traditional agricultural values. &#8220;To those who expect to just roll over America&#8217;s farm and ranch families,&#8221; Stallman said, &#8220;my only message is this: The circumstances have changed.&#8221; The Capital Press article doesn&#8217;t elaborate on what Stallman suggests farmers and ranchers actually do. Tom Laskawy of the Grist website gives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Book Banning, Michael Pollan to Speak at WSU</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2010/01/07/after-book-banning-michael-pollan-to-speak-at-wsu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma, a critique of modern food systems that was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, will speak January 13th at Washington State University in Pullman as part of its annual common reading program. What&#8217;s noteworthy about Pollan&#8217;s visit is that only last May the university banned Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma from freshman reading lists.  After already buying 4000 copies, the President and Provost cited financial constraints.  Critics of the ban said political pressure from agricultural interests was the real reason for pulling the book.  The Spokesman Review, in an article written last May, quoted Patricia Ericsson, an assistant English professor who recommended Pollan&#8217;s best seller as saying “A substantial part of the reason was because of political pressure growing from the book choice.”  The Spokesman article went on to say: &#8220;That political pressure apparently was brought to bear by a member of the board of regents, Harold Cochran, who disapproved of the author’s characterization of agribusiness. Cochran owns and operates a 5,500-acre farm near Walla Walla, is a founding stockholder in the Bank of the West in Walla Walla and is a member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial Thanksgiving: Wired.com looks at the assembly line version of turkey day</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2009/11/29/industrial-thanksgiving-wired-com-looks-at-the-assembly-line-version-of-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GH: An amazing if slightly unsettling look at the technology involved in getting Thanksgiving dinner to the majority of Americans — from Wired.com): Thanksgiving is about eating, and though local, organic food might be what the cool kids are eating, most people are still eating products of the industrial food system. Whether you’re talking turkey, cranberries or potatoes, industrial-scale processes have been developed to drive down food costs, drive up corporate profits and feed America’s incredible hunger for novel food items. But most consumers of these manufactured meals have little or no knowledge of the machines and methods used to freeze turkeys, turn potatoes into fake potatoes, and cranberries into TV-dinner cranberry sauce. It’s not always pretty, but food scientists’ epic battle to scale up your mom’s recipes without making them taste nasty is worth examining, if not giving thanks for. Turkey is the most iconic component of any Thanksgiving meal. Extensive breeding programs have seriously genetically altered the birds that millions of Americans eat. The birds have more than doubled in size since 1930 to an average of 28 pounds today. Even though we generally eat them whole, and therefore less processed than other meals, food technologists have developed new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetically Modified Potatoes Hit the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little cosmic convergence of potato news: Last night, PBS ran it&#8217;s ambitious 2 hour program &#8220;Botany of Desire,&#8221; based on Michael Pollan&#8217;s popular book about the evolutionary relationship of plants and humans. In the section of the show profiling potatoes (all shot in Idaho), Pollan &#8220;points up the peril of trying to control nature.&#8221; &#8220;More than most other foods,&#8221; the show says &#8220;the easily cultivated, immensely nourishing potato appeals to our desire to control the messy, fickle business of farming and feeding ourselves.&#8221; One attempt at control was Monsanto&#8217;s genetically modified NewLeaf potato. The show says &#8220;The NewLeaf potato ultimately failed, largely due to the public outcry against genetically engineered foods.&#8221; This morning, Capital Press, an excellent source of Western agribusiness news, published a story stating &#8220;The U.S. potato industry is working to make the reintroduction of genetically modified spuds into the American marketplace a success.  Four or five companies are working on genetically modified varieties, said John Keeling, executive vice president of the National Potato Council.&#8221; The potato industry is understandably sensitive to the fact that the public is wary of GM products, so, according to Capital Press &#8220;The potato council will put together a task force this [...]]]></description>
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