{"id":2009,"date":"2010-04-30T13:18:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2010-04-30T13:18:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:18:26","slug":"table-scraps-the-week-in-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/30\/table-scraps-the-week-in-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Table scraps: the week in food"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here’s some phat\/fat food-related coverage to chew over this weekend:<\/p>\n

Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, fast becoming one of the Senate’s lead food safety advocates<\/a>, said there are six forms of E. Coli <\/a>that the USDA needs to pay attention to.\u00a0 Walmart answered the call<\/a> almost immediately.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Walmart, Atlantic magazine food editor, Corby Kummer, got entranced by Walmart’s new local food intiative<\/a>.\u00a0 The owner of a Boston co-opy place where I had a cup of coffee last month shot back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Closer to home, Price Chopper says it’s on track<\/a> to open the once-P&C stores.<\/p>\n

And finally, Whole Earth Catalog<\/a> guy Stewart Brand, argues (via John Tierney<\/a>) that organic = irresponsible.<\/p>\n

In \u201cDenialism,\u201d<\/a> a book about the spread of unscientific beliefs, Michael Specter criticizes the \u201corganic fetish\u201d as a \u201cpernicious kind of denialism\u201d being exported to poor countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cTotal reliance on organic farming would force African countries to devote twice as much land per crop as we do in the United States,\u201d he writes. \u201cAn organic universe sounds delightful, but it could consign millions of people in Africa and throughout much of Asia to malnutrition<\/a> and death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I refer to this line of argument as the “Feed the World” movement, as opposed to the “Local Food” movement.\u00a0 I’m not sure who said all agriculture should be organic, but no one asked me.<\/p>\n

Have a great weekend, and we’d love to hear your thoughts\/feedback on anything food-related!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s some phat\/fat food-related coverage to chew over this weekend: Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, fast becoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}