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By: Farm Food Voices DC 2011–Join Us « Liberation Wellness

Farm Food Voices DC 2011–Join Us « Liberation Wellness — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:52:16 +0000

[...] hard to believe it’s been a year since our last event, but it [...]

By: Farm Food Voices DC 2011–Update « Liberation Wellness

Farm Food Voices DC 2011–Update « Liberation Wellness — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:51:16 +0000

[...] by Liz Reitzig on March 3, 2011 It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since our last event, but it [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:00:05 +0000

Woo! Some of this food looks great! Time for lunch!
.-= Brian´s last blog ..Daily Chatter – Feedburner =-.

By: NICFA Goes To Bat For the Small Farm and Top Local Chefs Get into the Act «

NICFA Goes To Bat For the Small Farm and Top Local Chefs Get into the Act « — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:20:13 +0000

[...] We begin with the language of organic, GMO and sustainable farming and the laws, like the very unsexy-sounding “S-510”, that govern food products and the farms they’re grown on. It’s enough to leave a layperson scratching their head and it’s easy to feel out of the lettered loop. There’s NICFA (National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association), HAACP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points), LGMA (Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement), and UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development)…a puzzling jumble of acronyms to sort out…but this is a story of ourselves, the consumers, our farmer friends, and the restaurants that use the food they grow. Hartkeisonline.com blog published my story on the NICFA small farm lobby day on Capitol Hill. Here is an excerpt and a link to the rest of the story. [...]

By: Stanley A Fishman

Stanley A Fishman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:46:43 +0000

The best way to improve food safety would be to make it easy for small farmers, rather than do almost everything possible to drive them out of business. This post has inspired me to contact my congresspeople and try to get them to do something to help relieve the regulatory burdens on small farms. I f they want to improve the horrible food safety situation, they should go after the real danger, which is the large processing plants and imports. .-= Stanley A Fishman´s last blog ..The Cooking Advantages of Grassfed Meat =-.