• House passes lumbering Farm Bill with 75%, for better or worse [NYTimes] • Foie gras prohibition ends in Chicago; it was sort of fun [Tribune] • BS: Bush admin's claim of biofuel's small role in global food crisis [AP]...
• Farm bill vote expected today, veto expected tomorrow, neither good [Reuters] • Food aid bill: by the way, poor countries, you have to use GMO seeds! [Tribune] • UK's Minister of Climate Change undermines Ramsay's food mile claims [Mirror]...
• Burma's junta, large and evil as it is, hoarding all the good food aid [AP] • Did you know the junta forced everyone to plant semi-useless jatropha nut? [AFP] • Food science's new artificial mouth to make tastier products...
• Now that Congress finally finished farm bill, Bush to veto it [USAToday] • Maybe a million Burmese storm victims going largely without aid [Bloomberg] • In Canada, gov't support for ethanol subsidies waning rapidly [G&M] • Rice production rising...
• Burma changes its mind about letting in foreign aid workers [NYTimes] • After the junta was caught stealing supplies, WFP halts shipments [AP] • Just as a reminder, most of Burma's farmland is under water [Bloomberg] • New idea:...
• With over 100k confirmed dead, Burma finally accepting food aid from...everyone [Yahoo] • 2m people in Sadr City running out of food and other supplies no good for anyone [NYTimes] • North Korea, as out of food as anyone,...
• UN finally starts moving food to Burmese cyclone victims [ET] • WFP: let's rebrand it as a "global hunger emergency" [VOA] • Have you noticed ingredient shifts at your local diner? [AP] • Attention urban vacant lots: you will...
• Guess which President's daughter's wedding's going to be organic! [AP] • Whole wheat pasta service restored after Harvard student riot [BH] • Myanmar cyclone kills 22k, shuts down the exporter's rice region [AFP] • Thailand had an idea about...
• Food riots in Mogadishu indicative of Somalia's dysfunction [NYTimes] • Bush's remarks on role of India in food crisis irk Indians [Guardian] • In an era of confectionery corporate mergers, whither Tootsie? [Tribune] • Suburban Chicago man commissions Pabst...
• Rice: food crisis caused by 1) demand 2) distribution difficulties/costs 3) biofuels [IndiaTImes] • UN: don't forget about commodities speculators! (and the craptastic dollar) [CanadianPress] • Senate wants to add $200m to the $350m already requisitioned for food aid...
• Ban Ki-moon laments global food crisis for the bazillionth time [AP] • The stalled farm bill contains much-needed relief for poor families [Tribune] • Reuters has two detailed writeups on the food crisis that review the causes and recount...
• Our little Sam's Club rice sales limit tagged as "food rationing" [Guardian] • Japan's butter shortage initiated by dairy cow cull two years ago [Salon] • More countries (Uganda this time) telling their citizens to garden [AllAfrica] • FDA...
• PETA offers paltry $1m for construction of artificial meat lab [AP] • Bad press forces meat industry to support banning downer cows [PE] • Another cause of the food crisis: structural adj. programs [AllAfrica] • Congress mad at USDA...
• Fast food calorie listing rolls out in New York to yawns [NYTimes] • Food safety art project terror professor's case dismissed [TimesUnion] • Federal crackdown on raw milk not sitting well with farmers [Tribune] • WFP: 100m more people...
• Ban Ki-moon issues his daily reminder on the direness of the food crisis [TPA] • If the food crisis is bad now, what happens when there are 9 billion of us? [CSM] • For starters, we'll have to give...
• The global food crisis and riots aren't going away [NYTimes] • Guyana's idea: give everyone seeds for gardening [AP] • USDA brazenly says slaughterhouse oversight sufficient [Baltimore Sun] • Will the country-of-origin labeling bill go far enough? [LATimes] •...
• The next chapter of the food crisis will be about Asia's lack of water [AlterNet] • Half a decade into drought, Australia gives up on growing rice [NYTimes] • Bangladesh, of all places, expects bumper rice crop this year...
• Good news: we're 15 years maximum from non-food crop biofuels [Telegraph] • France up and passes law banning prorexia propaganda, confusing public [WaPo] • Should we be concerned that China's food prices are up 21% this year? [BBCNews] •...
• American policymakers still in denial about ethanol's role in food crisis [NYTimes] • The IMF estimates that 100m people are severely affected by food crisis [FWI] • Bush releases $200m from food fund for immediate stability aid [CNN] •...