This post is available online here: http://local.farmersmarket.com/blog/chef-jenny-hustons-blog and here http://fertilegroundusa.com/index.php/organic-matter

Twitter: @chefjennyhuston

·      Food as Weapon http://bit.ly/Y0ZNu4

Dr. Vandana Shiva Brings Earth Democracy to Hawai’i

·      Peasant Leaders Stage Hunger Strike Against Genetically Modified Corn http://bit.ly/Wgepa4

Planting of GM corn would be ‘coup de grace to food sovereignty for the Mexican people.’

·      McDonald’s Sustainable Fish:...

·      Fewer bees in US a threat to world’s almond supply http://yhoo.it/Z5MIjM

·      Tuna’s Last Stand http://bit.ly/WiWsI3

In early January, scientists released jaw-dropping data showing that bluefin tuna in the North Pacific to be “functionally extinct.”

·      US Food Industry Battles Against Regulation http://bit.ly/Y9xRnn

·      Quinoa: To Buy or Not to Buy… Is This the Right Question? http://bit.ly/Wu4H2Q

·      Swedes Consuming Low-Fat Dairy Products Gain More Weight http://bit.ly/12KQx...

·      India’s rice revolution http://bit.ly/Yo0Nbq

In a village in India’s poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice (22.4 tonnes per hectare)  – with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages?

Using a system called System of Rice (or root) Intensification (SRI)

o   Miracle grow: Indian farmers smash crop yields records without GMOs http://bit.ly/15ApQgO

·      Baltimore Food Hub: $10M campus for food related businesses, job training...

·      Homeless Food Trucks: San Francisco Considers Novel Ways To Feed The Hungry http://huff.to/PHBtbR

o   Food Truck for the Poor http://bit.ly/SNDc2n

·      Life Story: A farmer who shared the land and his heart http://bit.ly/11DC6KC

·      The Diet-Climate Connection: How the foods we eat affect the planet we inhabit (public radio documentaries) http://goo.gl/YLy7T

·      In Mexico diabetes is a more dangerous killer than drug cartels http://goo.gl/ztUPi

·      Too much carbon dioxide can...

Twitter: @chefjennyhuston

·      Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee http://goo.gl/zcE1S

·      Europe Milk Quota Protests: Police Sprayed with Thousands of Liters of Fresh Milk http://goo.gl/UDg9S

o   Milky Way: Infuriated farmers spray milk on riot police in Brussels http://goo.gl/h4Z31

Thousands of dairy farmers on Monday protested low prices for their

product, choking traffic in the Belgian capital with their tractors and spraying European Union headquarters and police with...

·      In Mexico City, a Green Revolution, One Lettuce at a Time http://goo.gl/u4QxU

·      Why Oprah Winfrey Getting into the Organic Food Business is HUGE News http://goo.gl/T6rKa

·      The Ecologist, Vol. 28 No. 5, September/October1998 History of Monsanto http://goo.gl/SI4ow

·      Is our daily cup of coffee under threat? http://goo.gl/Kkauc

A new study from Kew suggest that Arabica coffee could be extinct in the wild within 70 years.

·      American Epidemic: Diabetes Cases Soar By 50% or...

·      Backyard (San Joaquin Valley, California) citrus harvest helps feed those in need http://goo.gl/lCMIG

·      Fish Fraud Criticized By Sen. Barbara Boxer, 500 Restaurateurs http://goo.gl/d0QbH

·      The History of Pink Slime: The Sliming http://goo.gl/LNWCk

How processed beef trimmings got rebranded, again and again and again…

·      Truck Driver Steal and Sells 1,500 Cases of Beer http://goo.gl/W8hud

·      McDonald’s To Sell Ground Coffee In Canada http://goo.gl/PrjOC

·      In Dairy Industry...

·      Amazon Farmers (Ecuador) Seize Chevron Assets http://goo.gl/40G7h

·      Vermont Leads Way for “Farm to Plate” Planning http://goo.gl/w68tY

10 year seeks path to more sustainable local food system

·      Scenes of ‘Dust Bowl Days’ Return As Oklahoma Storm Causes Highway Pileup http://goo.gl/zGVd6

Year of high temps and record drought portends climate future for once fertile croplands

·      Farmers, Workers, Consumers, Unite! New Visions in Food Justice http://goo.gl/yCO6G

How do we make sure...

·      Declaration On Seed Freedom http://goo.gl/NG9dj

·      After Graduating From College, It’s Time to Plow, Plant and Harvest http://goo.gl/N5cvj

·      That Flawed Stanford Study http://goo.gl/fgMrX

·      Land reform protests heat up in Paraguay http://goo.gl/c6ttj

·      Man eaten by hogs at Oregon farm http://goo.gl/TKgdX

·      US farmers turn to gummy worms, fruit loops to feed cows after corn shortage http://goo.gl/jhTqz

·      For Local Fisheries, a Line of Hope http://goo.gl/lEJPi

·...

5 Ways the Stanford Study Sells Organics Short... and many more headlines regarding our food industry.

·      ‘Food Hubs’ Connect School Districts With Farmers http://goo.gl/KwEuL

Online California food hub Ag Link http://goo.gl/RsgKY, ALBA in Salinas http://goo.gl/YRL79 and others in Vermont, Oregon and …

·      Media Coverage of Stanford’s Organic Foods Study is Half Baked http://goo.gl/EbF8K

o   Busted! Co-author of Stanford study that bashed organics found to have deep ties to Big Tobacco’s...