Tag Archives: food
AFBF: Join the Conversation About the Food You Produce
In her article Join the Conversation About the Food You Produce, Chris Chinn suggests something I hadn’t considered before. Maybe it is time that we focus not so much on the fact that America’s food supply is safer and more abundant … Continue reading
Filed under Automotive, Media
Ceding America’s sovereignty through food policy
American sovereignty is probably in no greater danger than now as Congress moves to cede decisions on agricultural production and policy to the World Trade Organization and labyrinth of unelected government officials within the United States, including the Department of … Continue reading
Filed under Agriculture, Government, Media, News, Politics, Technology
Taxing Californians out of existence
A generation ago consumers thought the best way to help the environment was to rid grocery stores of paper bags in favor of the more convenient plastic bags. The move to rid stores of paper bags was aimed at curbing … Continue reading
Filed under Agriculture, Government, Politics
Growing PR problem related to agricultural use of biosolids
This political and PR nightmare is not what Central Coast growers — or any farmers for that matter — need. But it’s one that farmers have invited upon themselves by agreeing with cities to take toxic water from wastewater treatment plants and use it to irrigate the crops we eat. Continue reading
Filed under Agriculture, Politics
PR: Where farms and consumers meet to eat
Then again in today’s global economy you might not even buy the food produced locally. Check the labels of the fruit and vegetables (if you can find a label) on the fresh produce you buy at the grocery store. Avocados and melons from Mexico might sit a bin or two down from the fruit grown in Chile. What kind of phytosanitary rules governed the production of those fruits and vegetables before being imported into the United States?
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Filed under Agriculture, Media, Technology
Buying politicians or paying protection money: They’re one in the same
Take for example the farm groups that consistently gives money to Democrats thinking that maybe someday these Democratic lawmakers might, kind of, maybe see things their way and stop writing laws that take their water, land and livelihoods. Continue reading
Filed under Agriculture, Politics
Farm water a national security issue
Farmers have long been innovators in many ways. In fact farmers from around the world will gather next week at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA to consider the purchase of new technologies that will further make them more efficient. They’ve had to be more efficient. Continue reading
Filed under Agriculture, Politics
Farmers must better educate the public
While farmers have worked to educate themselves, have made strides in becoming more efficient in their practices, and have even joined forces to lobby their elected representatives, they’ve done little at best to educate their customers — the American public — about just what it is they do, how they do it, and why what they do is so important. Continue reading
Filed under Agriculture, Politics
American chile production cools while consumption increases
American-grown chiles have scored better in taste tests, particularly those from the Hatch, NM area, and in restaurant surveys than foreign-grown chiles. Ironically, the consumption of chile peppers in the United States has increased, according to the New Mexico Chile Association, while we continue to decrease our domestic production. Continue reading
Filed under Agriculture
