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02/27/2024

Cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches last year poisoned hundreds of American children with extremely high doses of lead, leaving anxious parents to watch for signs of brain damage, developmental delays and seizures.

The recalled applesauce pouches, sold under the brand names WanaBana, Schnucks and Weis, were available through various outlets, including Amazon and Dollar Tree stores.

Do not eat, sell, or serve multiple brands of recalled apple cinnamon fruit pouches. FDA’s investigation is ongoing.

02/24/2024

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Register for the 35th annual event featuring visionary and practical solutions.

02/14/2024

Bob Moore, Who Founded Bob’s Red Mill, Is Dead at 94. “I think that people who eat white flour, white rice, de-germinated corn — in other words, grains that have had part of their nutrients taken away — are coming up short,” Mr. Moore said in 2017 in an interview for an Oregon State University oral history. “I think our diets, nationally, and international probably, show the fact that we just have allowed ourselves to be sold a bill of goods.” -Bob Moore RIP

09/23/2022

🏰Extreme oligopoly🏰
Economists typically consider that if four firms together operate 40% or higher of a sector that constitutes an oligopoly. The results of this report shows that our food system has already tipped well into oligopoly. Four firms (Sygenta, Bayer, BASF, and Corteva) control 62% of the world agrochemical market: the top six control 78% of the market. Three multinational companies (EW Group, Hendrix Genetics and Tyson Foods) control 100% of commercial poultry genetics. Two companies (Syngenta Group and Bayer) control 40% of the commercial seeds market.

🖧Digital domination🖧
Tech giants are becoming prime players in food, handling the data, networking and AI that undergirds the newly digitized food chain. For example, Bayer’s ‘Field View’ digital platform extracts 87.5 billion datapoints from 180 million acres (78.2 million hectares) of farmland in 23 countries and funnels it into the cloud and AI servers of Microsoft and Amazon to generate new business strategies. These systems displace farm workers, erode farmers’ rights and manipulate consumers.

💼Big finance behind big food💼
Food Barons 2022 also explores how finance majors are in the driving seat of the commercial food system. In sectors such as grocery and food processing giant asset managers Blackrock, State Street and Vanguard maintain the largest ownership stakes across many of the top firms, showing real competition to be an illusion.

💸Profiteering - Exploiting Crises of Climate, COVID and Conflict💸
The extreme market power documented in this report - a tiny number of firms controlling huge markets - is closely linked to high prices. The food barons noted in this report have capitalized on COVID to digitize processes and lay off workers. The climate crisis is invoked to promote proprietary and expensive ‘high tech’ seeds, ‘digital farming’ kit and ‘alt proteins’ which swell their coffers. These false solutions could further indebt farmers and trap them in new mechanisms of control. More recently, war in Ukraine has become a further smokescreen for profiteering.

https://etcgroup.org/content/food-barons-2022

10/31/2021

A pic of the last tomatoes of summer and the best we've had all year from Star Route Farms. Time to make way for some rain, but we'll look forward to seeing you round this time next year!

08/11/2021

We have been encouraging you to eat organic for years. Here's our take on the Covid vaccine.

By Rhonda Gruska At the end of March, I asked a longtime Northern California holistic nutrition and cooking educator if he had received his COVID-19

04/22/2021

This earth day, remember the health of animals, people and the planet are directly and heavily impacted by what's on your plate. Here's to Slow Food and the people who support it. While we no longer run restaurants, we continue to live our food convictions. Please consider joining the movement. Salud!

EAST SMF is an organic "farm to fork" restaurant in Sacramento, CA. The owners wanted a vignette style video to provide customers an education on organic co...

03/10/2021

Over the last few decades, the way in which people grow, share and eat food around the world has become a tale of two conflicting food systems – which we call the Industrial Food Chain and the Peasant Food Web. The tension between these two systems is the basis of our new game Disruption! A battle for the future of food.

Submitted by Laura Dunn on Fri, 2021-02-12 11:04 Over the last few decades, the way in which people grow, share and eat food around the world has become a tale of two conflicting food systems – which we call the Industrial Food Chain and the Peasant Food Web. The tension between these two systems ...