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The Origins of Biodynamic Wine Are Steeped in the Occult and Bad Sciencenew

Biodynamic wines' sign is ascending -- even if no one involved in making or selling them wants to volunteer information about the severed cows' heads or a bevy of other animal and vegetable preparations that read like a shopping list for Shakespeare's three weird sisters.
SF Weekly  |  Joe Eskenazi  |  11-19-2008  |  Food+Drink

Alt Farmers Share in the Farm Bill's Bounty, but at What Cost?new

Even if the same law shovels tons of subsidies to rich farmers and agribusiness giants, the little guys growing organic food are at least catching some of the crumbs.
Isthmus  |  Marc Eisen  |  07-08-2008  |  Food+Drink

Holistic Vineyards: Biodynamic Wine is Greenernew

Critics call it "vineyard voodoo"; others refer to it as "supercharged organic." In fact, biodynamic agriculture dates back to 1924, when Austrian philosopher-scientist Rudolf Steiner gave a series of lectures in which he argued that modern farming had lost its spiritual connection to nature.
Isthmus  |  Anne Strainchamps  |  05-19-2008  |  Food+Drink

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