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2008 Salmon Season Cancelled |
April 11, 2008
The Pacific Fisheries Management Council voted yesterday to prohibit Chinook salmon fishing off the coasts of California and most of Oregon this year.
Click here to read the San Francisco Chronicle's 4/10 coverage of this issue
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NY Times Lead Editorial On Rising Food Prices |
April 10, 2008
Today's New York Times lead editorial considers how the rising price of food is leading to new global food crisis - "Last year, the food import bill of developing countries rose by 25 percent as food prices rose to levels not seen in a generation."
Read full article here.
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We'll Reap What We Sow - Update On The Farm Bill |
April 10, 2008
Daniel Imhoff, author of "Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill", wrote a timely update in todays LA Times on the current state of the Farm Bill. In We'll reap what we sow - The farm bill is loaded with pork and environmentally disastrous provisions, Imhoff says "By and large, the farm bill song remains the same: Commodity agribusiness gets the lion's share; reformers get table scraps. Absent a more vocal public outcry, the agribusiness lobby, which spent $80 million in 2007, again holds the winning hand."
Read the full article here.
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San Francisco Foodshed Project |
April 4, 2008
American Farmland Trust has received a grant from the San Francisco Foundation to conduct a feasibility study of the potential of the City of San Francisco to feed itself well and healthily with a minimal impact on the local, regional and global environment by increasing the share of its food consumption produced by sustainable farming methods within the Bay Area itself and the immediately surrounding agricultural areas, including the 15 counties within 100 miles of the Golden Gate.
The study will examine the current amount and sources of food consumed in the city; the potential of the surrounding area to supply additional high-quality, healthy food to the city; current and possible systems for encouraging the production and purchase of more local food by people and institutions, and for assuring that low income consumers can afford it; and the potential conservation of natural resources and energy from greater local food consumption and production.
Read more about the project here.
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Did Your Shopping List Kill a Songbird? |
April 3, 2008
This Op-Ed from the Sunday March 31 New York Times goes into some detail about the far reaching effects of expanding pesticide use in Mexico, Central and South America. As more and more of our food is coming from these countries, their overall (and largely unregulated) pesticide use is exponentially expanding. This overuse of highly toxic chemicals is coming back to us not only in our food - but also in our migratory songbirds.
Songbird populations are showing heavy exposure, and heavy declines. If you appreciate biological diversity - and love swallows (as I do) - you might want to consider buying US grown, locally grown or organically grown foods.
Read the full article here.
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