Slow Food News Day

Slow Food for Thought by Eric Schlosser, on the social movement of slow food.

You can fool some of the people some of the time...what do we really know about what we eat anyway?

That's right; it's another article on Meat Production and World Hunger:

Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, DC, states it succinctly: “People go hungry because much of arable land is used to grow feed grain for animals rather than people.” He offers as one example the Ethiopian famine of 1984, which was fueled by the meat industry. “While people starved, Ethiopia was growing linseed cake, cottonseed cake and rapeseed meal for European livestock,” he says. “Millions of acres of land in the developing world are used for this purpose. Tragically, 80 percent of the world’s hungry children live in countries with food surpluses which are fed to animals for consumption by the affluent.”

Dining with Dionysus, about a cooking school in Greece: "Even bad stuffed grape leaves are good, but these were better than any I’d had, for the vivid and cooling flavors."

A solution to the food crisis:  A kitchen garden in every home.

An interview with the author of Stuffed and Starved, Raj Patel.

Another reason to fear factory farms: Superbugs.

Six guilt-free reasons to love carbs. You mean I needed a reason?

Forget carbs; eat broccoli. Especially if you have diabetic heart damage.

Next time I'm in France, I'm going here.

Are there bovine growth hormones in your fish? 

Not to frighten you, but check out this: green tea Kit Kats.

Comments

[Anke]

wow, gotta try those risotto-stuffed chard leaves...

[KathyF]

Yeah, I thought that one looked pretty easy to veganize. Also some of the Greek ones give me ideas.

Just cooked spelt risotto...yum!