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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>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>After Book Banning, Michael Pollan to Speak at WSU</title>
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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>Genetically Modified Potatoes Hit the News</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2009/10/29/genetically-modified-potatoes-in-the-news/</link>
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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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		<title>Ruling on Sugar Beets not so Sweet</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2009/09/23/ruling-on-sugar-beets-not-so-sweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ruling on Monday could have a dramatic impact on agriculture in Idaho and the Northwest. According to the New York Times: “A federal judge has ruled that the government failed to adequately assess the environmental impacts of genetically engineered sugar beets before approving the crop for cultivation in the United States. The decision could lead to a ban on the planting of the beets, which have been widely adopted by farmers. In a decision issued Monday, Judge Jeffrey S. White of Federal District Court in San Francisco, said that the Agriculture Department should have done an environmental impact statement. He said it should have assessed the consequences from the likely spread of the genetically engineered trait to other sugar beets or to the related crops of Swiss chard and red table beets. The decision echoes another ruling two years ago by a different judge in the same court involving genetically engineered alfalfa. In that case, the judge later ruled that farmers could no longer plant the genetically modified alfalfa until the Agriculture Department wrote the environmental impact statement. Two years later, there is still no such assessment and the alfalfa, with rare exceptions, is not being grown.” In a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetically Modified Alfalfa Creeps into Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There'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 future of American agriculture. ]]></description>
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