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Banana overlord Dole and gargantuan pork producer Smithfield Foods go after small, independent filmmakers.
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Why is the National Corn Growers Association freaked out by the dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi River?
Yesterday,organic farming activist Andrew Kimbrell, the executive director of the Center for Food Safety, wrote a piece for Huffington Post called "Obama Organic Family Garden: Swimming in Sludge?" in which he suggests that lead levels in the Obama's garden -- said to test at 93 parts per million -- are high enough to consider avoiding that soil for growing fruits and vegetables. Says Kimbrell: Read more...
From The Onion:
"One vat of cellulose slurry feeds up to 5000 Taco Bell customers."
Super-skewering of fast food companies "going green."
Another terrific blog post from the aptly named Rob Smart, who's on a real tear (he also had post picked up by Huffington post). In today's installment, he delivers a definition of his brain child "movement," Pro Food, which might be seen as a community-focused, farmer friendly, more inclusive organic/sustainable/local food initiative aimed at communicating these ideals to the mainstream. In a positive way. Rob says: Read more...
That's right. Another food documentary! 
Last week, leaders of the food justice movement -- -- including Eric Schlosser and Robert Kenner, producer and director of the hard-hitting new documentary "Food, Inc." -- sent a strongly worded letter to Chipotle, the fastest growing company in fast-food, demanding that they live up to its claims of "Food with Integrity" and "work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as a true partner in the protection of farmworkers' rights."
Now it's your turn to get in on the action. Add your name to the letter to Chipotle CEO Steve Ells demanding real "food with integrity" and an end to the human rights crisis in Florida's tomato fields. Go to http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/campaign/chipotle to participate in this email action. Read more...
