More about miso. 28 September 2007 1:18 pm
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, breakfast, GMOs, vegan, recipes, soup, vegetarian , add a commentSo last week I sang the praises of miso soup and gave a quick and easy recipe, suitable for kludging together for breakfast, even. But even that may have been overcomplicating things a bit — in Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes
In which I am not proud, but share my shame online all the same. 13 March 2007 10:42 pm
Posted by Tracy in : GMOs, pictures, vegan, vegetarian, eating, cooking , add a commentIt was on the sale shelves at Sundance a few months ago and I could not resist, okay? I know full well that it’s hippie crap, but today I discovered that if you read the fine print it’s also big scary agribusiness at the same time (Archer-Daniels Midland? Ewwww!) Forgive me, readers, if you believe I have sinned.
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ENVS 411 Reading Summary: Seeds and Genetically Modified Organisms 24 January 2007 12:34 pm
Posted by Tracy in : school, GMOs, environment, sustainability, sundance, agriculture, books , add a commentSo we finished watching The Future of Food in my environmental studies class, Sustainable Agriculture, today. It’s still a really painful movie, full of rhetoric that makes me want to disagree even when the facts are on my side, but I took notes and will compose an appropriately snarky response in the not-too-distant future. (We also watched a little clip from an older PBS special called Harvest of Fear, which might be worth checking out at some point if the library’s still got it.) In the meantime, this week’s assigned readings were:
“Global Claims” and “Epilogue: The Story” from Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money and the Future of Food by Daniel Charles (2001)
“The Genie in the Genome: Bioengineering in Context” and “In Wildness is the Preservation of the World: Sustaining Traditional Farming and Genetic Resources” from Food’s Frontier: The Next Green Revolution by Richard Manning (2000)
“Globalization and the War Against Farmers and the Land” by Vandana Shiva, from The Essential Agrarian Reader (Norman Wirzba, ed. 2003)
“Sowing Disaster? How Genetically Engineered American Corn Has Altered the Global Landscape” by Mark Shapiro (The Nation, 28 October 2002).
and here’s a slightly modified version of my original two-page response to those readings, complete with a preview of my Future of Food rant at the end. Also references to ninjas and whup-ass in the beginning, which got a cautious “that’s, um, original” comment from the grader, to which I can only say, “yay! I got away with rampant silliness!” (more…)
