·      Thomas Jefferson’s Vegetable Garden: A Thing of Beauty and Science http://n.pr/K00p9P

·      Study: Biodiversity Loss Impacts as Great as Climate Change Impacts

Ecologist: “These extinctions may well rank as one of the top five drivers of global change.”

·      World Watch Institute: UN Report Calls for a Realignment of Agricultural Reform http://bit.ly/KKKKRm

… The report warns that the growing involvement of private corporations in reforming the food and agriculture system could potentially...

Headlines regarding our food industry and the slow food movement:

·      Copenhagen Consensus 2012: How to Get Food on Every Table http://slate.me/K6hiFi

We have enough food to feed everyone (world wide.) But we need to produce even more. Here’s why.

·      US Beef Industry Shipped Record Amount of Meat Abroad Last Year http://huff.to/Im6MKM

Exports are big business for the US beef industry, which shipped a record $5.4 billion worth of beef abroad last year…

·      The Great Rice Shortage...

The advantages of organic farming and more in this week's update.  Catch up with what's going on with this compilation of news stories:

·      Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After top-Level Struggle http://nyti.ms/I28Ods

Confronted with evidence of widespread corruption in Mexico, top Wal-Mart executives focused more on damage control than on rooting out wrongdoing, an examination by The New York Times found.

o   Walmart’s Criminal Problems – Much Bigger Than NewsCorp’s http://huff.t...

A collection of relevant topics in the news around the world regarding the slow food movement.  Take a moment to read a few and stay informed about our food industry:

Way Beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured “Big Conservation”?

·      The Economics of Happiness Conference and The Rise of The Localization Movement http://bit.ly/HLfMHa

·      Ohio fracking is latest target for anti-Keystone activists http://bit.ly/HHnPjY

·      Guardian UK: Eat less meat to prevent climate disaster, study...

·      The folly of Big Agriculture: Why Nature Always Wins http://bit.ly/HXP2Bk

Instead of urging farmers away from uniformity and toward grater diversity, the USDA is helping them do the same old wrong thing faster

·      What do Walmart, Fiji Water, and The Sustainable Forestry Initiative have in common?  http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/04/8-notorious-greenwasher-contest http://bit.ly/Hjpdz5

·      Saving Heirloom Seeds Through Crowdsourcing http://bit.ly/HoFdcR

·      Is your favorite...

·      The Wonderful World of Dandelions http://bit.ly/GOtaLU

… dandelions aren’t weeds but dynamic accumulators, a type of species that is generally the first to colonize areas otherwise devoid of plants due to fire or other reasons, particularly in poor soil conditions.

·      Food Freedom: Feral Swine or Just Hairy Pigs? http://bit.ly/H0Z3ON

… CAFOs, factory farms are the real issue here. They want a total monopoly on the market for pork products and have found a way to get the government to...

·      Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities All Over America http://bit.ly/GLmeyv and more here http://bit.ly/H3EJvX

·      More on San Francisco Guerilla Grafters http://bit.ly/GQdvtR

·      NG: Grasslands More Diverse Than Rain Forests – In Small Areas http://bit.ly/GD22Qu

But rain forests still have the most plant species on a large scale.

·      Farm renewable energy boost http://bit.ly/GP5iV6

·      Five School Programs Feeding America’s Children (real food) http://bit.ly/zq9odz

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·      Farmers markets are cheaper outlet for some produce http://bit.ly/GRvE5U

·      In Defense of Food Sovereignty: Stop Water Grabbing! http://bit.ly/GJYtqI Declaration of La Via Campesina in the Alternative World Water Forum

·      Escarole, Cinderella of the Chicories http://n.pr/y5sIEj

·      Meatless Monday: Small Sustainable World http://huff.to/xM2KZY

·      Drought in California http://bit.ly/wh...

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·      There’s No Time to Delay: Congress Needs to Pass a Farm Bill in 2012 http://bit.ly/w4mzQP

Our farm and food system is broken, and it's wrecking the lives of family farmers here in the United States and across the globe.

·      How Factory Farms Are Killing Seals http://bit.ly/xj6gqJ

·      Faraway farms: Chronicling urban agriculture around the world http://bit.ly/zcVR3E

·      Indoor farm in...

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·      Access to Good, Healthy Food Should be a Basic Human Right http://bit.ly/yDr2eG

·      Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat http://bit.ly/zLkEhy

·      Spain Wilts in Driest Winter for 7- Years http://bit.ly/w0vIKu

·      Fukashima’s rebel farmers refuse to abandon livestock http://bit.ly/yCy70o

Small band of renegades make regular trips to nuclear evacuation zone to...