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Local News & Reports
- A few comments on animal welfare in pork and beef production, FLF, September 2008
- A few short stories on canning your own food, FLF, August 2008
- Comments on High Fructose Corn Syrup, FLF, September 2008.
- Wild Food Summit 2008, June 19-21, White Earth, Minnesota. A summary with pictures.
- Day on the Farm, 2008, personal account of day at the Thomas farm, June 14, 2008.
- Grab and Grow, area farmers' markets. Tammy Swift, Fargo Forum, June 18, 2008.
- Fumes from dairy causes evacuation, MPR, June 10, 2008 .
- Minnesota Health and Sustainable Food, April 29, 2008 news release.
- Concordia Dining Services Feature Local Foods, Concordian, April 16.
- The Soaring Price of Food, Dale Sullivan
- Vegan Group & Vegetarian Restaurant in Fargo, Kathleen Keene
- U of Minnesota Hires Faculty in Sustainable Agriculture, Tuesday, April 22, 2008, by Janet Kubat Willette
- Mexican Grocery Serving Breakfast, High Plains Reader
- WORC launches campaign to fight animal factories
- Local grocer helps support local foods movement. See what Hornbacher's Grocery Stores have been doing.
- Food Panel and Farmer's Market Show Growing Interest in Local Foods
- First Market Trial My Sister's Farm Market, February 29, 2008. Victoria Duncan.
- Saturday Shopping at Small Grocers, February 23, 2008. Dale & Sheryl Sullivan
- Beef Recall, Fargo Forum, February 19, 2008. Another example of the way our industrialized food system fails us.
- Crystal Sugar Plans to Plant GE Sugar Beets, February 15, 2008.
- Report on NPSAS 08, February 8-9, 2008.
- Open forum at Communiversity, building a local food network, January 27, 2008
- My Sister's Farm Morphing into Farmer's Market
- Forum Story on Local Foods in Fargo
- Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign Begins
- Action Call: Stop GM Beets
- Fargo's Green Market Closes. But, good news--the Green Market is now operating out of Cafe Muse in the Plains Art Museum.
- NDSU English class completes food studies
- Communiverstiy offers class on builing local food networks
- Buy Fresh Buy Local, Nov. 27, 2007, meeting
- Moorhead Cashwise pulls milk, (Organic Valley Milk)
- Local Food Touted, Dec. 27, 2005, story on Minnesota Public Radio. Sunny Johnson, Steve Dahlberg and Stephanie Williams say eating local food takes committment, but is easier than they anticipated.
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Articles From Elsewhere
- Roundup Resistant Ragweed Appears in South Dakota, SDSU AgBio, August 2008
- Table showing concentration of pesticides in vegetables and fruit
- The Basics on the Food Irradiation Fight, U.S. News & World Report, Posted September 5, 2008
- FDA report on salmonellosis outbreak & tomatoes, FDA, June 17, 2008
- Zapped! How Irradiation is Threatening Our Food, Alternet, June 13, 2008. Archived copy.
- The real cost of cheap food, AlterNet, June 6, 2008.
- Billions Invested in Farming, NY Times, June 5, 2008.
- GM crops banned in Switzerland until 2012, All About Feed, May, 29, 2008.
- Family seed business takes on Goliath of genetic modification, Edmonton Journal, May 25, 2008. Marian Scott.
- GM foods the problem, not the solution, Inter Press Service. Julio Godoy. May 23, 2008.
- World food prices: predatory agribusiness, Organic Consumers' Association,May 15, 2008. Silvia Ribeiro.
- Inside the Raw Milk Underground, Harpers, April 2008
- Eartheasy Story on Shade Grown Coffee
and songbirds
- Failure to monitor GM food and crops
- Figuring out what's in your food, CBS News
- Change we can stomach, Dan Barber, International Herald Tribune, May 12
- Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis, The Independent, London
- Agriculture Giant Battles Small Farmers, CBS News, April 26, 2008.
- Audio file, .wma: Home Ground Program on Local Foods, interview with Nancy Matheson, representative from Grow Montana. Home Ground is a program on Montana Public Radio. Grow Montana is an independent, Montana-based coalition trying to improve our health and economy with access to locally grown foods.
- Eat Locally, Survie Globally," Toronto Star.
- Agriculture Giant Battles Small Farmers, (pdf). CBS News, April 26, 2008.
- Cycling Nutrition: Organic Foods, Bicycling.
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Price Volatility Worries Farmers NY Times. Archived.
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GM Crop Myth Exposed, The Independent, April 20, 2008. Achived.
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Life (mostly) Off the Grid. This NY Times video shows a family who have become nearly self-sustainable in an urban setting, Pasadena, CA.
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GM Failures Continue, Institute of Science in Society
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The Real Problem with Genetically-Modified Foods, Revolution Health
- Monsanto's Harvest of Fear, Vanity Fair, May 2008.
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Farms in Poland
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Percy Schmeiser finally wins case against Monsanto. Grain Farmer Claims Moral Victory, globeandmail.com.
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Robert Weisman, Heads Monsanto Wins, Tails We Lose; The Genetically Modified Food Gamble, CommonDreams.org, March 19.
- Why Are Sugar Beets Controversial?
In January of this year, the Center for Food Safety filed a suit in federal court challenging the deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets. Find out why and read a copy of the complaint in this Center for Food Safety press release on the lawsuit.
- Splendid Table Features Local Foods.
Public Radio's The Splendid Table has a website, Locavore Nation, consisting of blogs written by several people across the nation.
- Interview with Joel Salatin. Michael Pollan featured Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm in his book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. In an interview conducted by Christie Chisholm, Salatin says,
"We are a grass farm. And I think if you're willing to tackle big issues--our country, our agriculture„we do not honor grass. We honor corn and cotton and soybeans and rice [and] sugarcane. Those are the five subsidized commodities in this country. Grass is like the ugly step-farmer." For more, go to
Alibi's interview with Joel Salatin.
- U. S. Organic Industry fears GMO contamination, Reuters, 3/12/08. Archived copy.
- Monsanto Plays Bully Over Labels, AlterNet, 3/6/08. Archived copy.
- Could We Run Out of Food? MSN Money, 3/6/08. This article suggests we buy stock in the big seed companies. We at FLF suggest that you support a local food system. Archived copy.
- School Makes Shift to Organic Beef, Colorado Springs.
- Biotech Contamination of Seed Stocks Worldwide, Greenpeace, GM Contamniation Register.
- Canadian Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Lawsuit Against Monsanto and Bayer. December 13, 2007. Organic farmers in Saskatchewan are fighting to protect GMO-free seed stocks.
- Iowa Network for Community Agriculture sponsors 13th Annual Local Foods Conference
- Rethinking the Meat Guzzler, New York Times, January 27, 2008. Here is an archived PDF if the link doesn't work.
- Suit Filed to Stop GM Sugar Beets, January 23, 2008
- Costly Fuel Drives Up Food Cost,
New York Times January 18, 2008. Backup PDF version
- US Consumers Oblivious to GM Food Fears, Common Dreams, January 17, 2008. Backup PDF version
- Just Local Foods, Eau Claire, WI, The Chippewa Herald, January 2008. Backup PDF version
- Geez, Issue 8, The Future of Food in an Urbanized World
- Pennsylvania Resticts rBGH Labeling. (Good news--thanks to pressure from across the country, they changed their minds!)
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Podcasts. These don't always stream for me; sometimes I have to "right-click" on them and download them to my computer before I open them. For me they work best played on iTunes.
- February 11, 10:00 News, KVLY, channel 11 in Fargo. Brief spot on local foods about 4 or 5 minutes in.
- Prairie Public Radio interviews with Steve Swinger, John Doran, Fred Kirschenmann, Ron Smith, Dale Sullivan. Friday, February 8, 2008. mms://streamer.prairiepublic.org/audio/hearitnow/2177.mp3.
- Is there a future for beginning farmers? Fred Kirschenmann, keynote address at NPSAS, February 8, 2008.
- Soil, Biodiversity and Imagination, Fred Kirschenmann, keynote address on second day at NPSAS, February 9, 2008.
- Sustaining earth and its people, John Doran, keynote address at NPSAS, February 8, 2008.
- Sierra Club Interview with Michael Pollan, February 2, 2008. Here is an archived copy in case the one on the Sierra Club website disappears.
- Winona LaDuke's Talk at NPSAS, February 10, 2006, Fargo, ND. This page has her talk linked as an mp3 and WMA formats.
- McNeil News Hour Broadcast on Local Foods, November 22, 2007. Transcript.
- NPR Science Friday Interview with Michael Pollan in Defense of Natural Food, January 4, 2008 (I need to open this with iTunes to hear it). News Story.
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