AltWeeklies Wire
Shelves Stocked With Fakersnew
Thanks to a flood of cheap Chinese ingredients, "local" food is like local cars assembled from foreign parts.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
01-11-2008 |
Food+Drink
Why a Hike in Food Prices is a Good Thingnew
Cheap food has been one of the leading causes of global poverty, hunger, disease and pollution -- that's why one of the biggest stories of 2007 is also one of the best: food prices are shooting up.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
01-04-2008 |
Food+Drink
World of Wasted Timenew
Climate change has stopped being human-created and in our control. Now what?
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-30-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Big Food's Local Distastenew
If supermarket giants get their way, local foods will never get out of special interest section.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-26-2007 |
Food+Drink
World Bank Prophetsnew
After years of starving poor nations, the World Bank now wants to pay farmers to protect ecosystem.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-05-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Fattening the Coloniesnew
No point preaching nutrition to poor countries when U.S. dumps cheap pop on them.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
10-05-2007 |
Food+Drink
Green Divide That Isn'tnew
From terrific Greenbelt to terrible ethanol subsidies, there's an odd consensus among Canadian political parties heading into elections.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-28-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Tadesse Meskela is No Ordinary Joe ... Nor is His Coffeenew
The Ethiopian coffee co-op founder aims for hearts and mugs of those who like a little justice with their java.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-21-2007 |
Food+Drink
CARE Goes Against the (U.S.) Grainnew
The major aid agency launches boycott of U.S. crop dumping masquerading as charity.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
09-14-2007 |
Food+Drink
Glossy Mags Distort Image of Food as Much as Womennew
Everyone knows how fashion photographers and their set designers and airbrushers cause bodily harm by distorting the image of women, but few think about how the same people cause similar problems with their framing of food.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
08-31-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Are Organics Worth the Price?new
The question itself is part of our anti-planet narcissism.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
08-24-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Norman Borlaug, the Bad Seednew
Why give father of 60s agro reform a congressional medal when his Green Revolution devastated farming?
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
08-10-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Fate of the Globe's Poor Rests with Organicsnew
Organic food, which has seemed to cater to an exclusive and affluent group in the industrialized world since 1990, is now ranked by two just-released studies as critical to feeding the world's hungry.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
07-27-2007 |
Food+Drink
Growing Nativenew
Indigenous farming is a gift to the world -- accept it and we can end hunger.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
06-29-2007 |
Food+Drink
Don't Believe the Food Technew
Enviros choke on pseudo-natural foods aimed at time-starved eco-consumers.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
06-04-2007 |
Food+Drink
