As recently as nine months or so ago, we used to talk about “the true cost of food,” hoping that Americans could begin to understand that the ultra-cheap food as fuel they were eating was priced un-naturally low, that farmers and farmworkers were paying the price, and hoping that people could/would learn how to pay […]

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Riots in Haiti, in response to the inflation of food prices, have brought this issue of rising food prices around the world to the front page. Riots such as these have taken place in Egypt, Cameroon, Senegal etc. and are at risk of occurring in 33 more countries, The Wall Street Journal reported today. […]

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Although Congress passed an extension on 2002’s Farm Bill until April 18, requiems are already being said for the hopes and dreams everyone had for radical change.
“A little more than a year ago,” The Wall Street Journal said yesterday in this excellent article, “the stars appeared to be aligned for significant changes to the […]

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by Membership Assistant, Julia De Martini Day 
“Sin maíz, no hay país!” “Without corn, there is no country!” were the words chanted by the Independent Women’s Movement on International Women’s Day March 8th in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico as they protested against free trade agreements devastating local agricultural communities and affordable access […]

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Does Thursday count as mid-week? Let’s say it does.
Movie #1: GMO corn ruins a perfectly good party.
Movie #2: Taste Education.

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The documentary film King Corn is now playing at a theatre near you, mostly to raucous approval, but one fellah in  Indiana  isn’t  as enthusiastic:
In 2003, the two men moved to Iowa and grew an acre of corn. They then followed that corn as it made its way through the food supply. What follows is […]

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Grist magazine, if you haven’t checked it out already, is a constant source of excellent writing, especially when it comes to food and agriculture. In the past week, they’ve produced a great piece by our own Slow Food leader and blog contributor Chef Kurt Friese, as well as an interview of Slow Food advisory […]

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There’s a new, worthy addition to the social action documentary genre, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis’ “King Corn.” This is no fist-waving, rage-filled exposé; it quietly investigates what Michael Pollan made famous in The Omnivore’s Dilemma (and what Francis Moore Lappé also discussed years ago in Diet for a Small Planet): corn dominates our […]

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