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Monsanto shouldn’t get away with it anymore –Vandana Shiva

Quantum physicist and environmental activist Vandana Shiva foresees The Future of Food, in three parts.
  • Part 1:
    There are only two applications that have been commercialized in these twenty years of genetic engineering. One is to make seeds more resilient to herbicides, which means you get to spread more Roundup, you get to spread more Glysophate, and you get to spread more poison. Not a very desirable trait in farming systems. Especially since what Monsanto will call weeds are ultimately sources of food.
    It gets even better from there.
    These are illusions that are being marketed in order for people to hand over the power to decide what we eat to a handful of corporations.
    Vandana Shiva is the keynote speaker at the Georgia Organics conference in Savannah, 11-12 March 2011. There’s still time to sign up!

    Here’s Part 1: Continue reading →

Whisk pictures and videos

Gretchen buys meat, fresh vegetables, ginger, cereal, chicken, sausage, and bacon at Whisk Organic Market in Valdosta. Also Newman ginger cookies.

She says Gracie says people who come in often don’t understand organic fruits and vegetables aren’t always the most beautiful ones. But they’re tasty!

Here’s a playlist of videos of proprietor Gracie Crane Douglas talking about her store.


Gracie Crane Douglas and Whisk Organic Market, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 15 Feb 2011
Pictures and Videos by Gretchen Quarterman.

More pictures of Whisk Organic Market in a flickr set.

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Pigweed on Georgia Farm Monitor

Dr. Stanley Culpepper of UGA Tifton says 52 counties have the mutant pigweed. He says they’re looking at cover crops and deep turning. (You may know that as plowing.) He hastily adds that they’re looking at other herbicides. But he wraps up by saying we have to look at other methods than herbicides: tillage and cover crops. He frames it as diversity and integration. What it really means is spraying poisons eventually breeds weeds that refuse to be poisoned. People, of course, are not so lucky.

This is the same Dr. Culpepper whose extensive slides on this subject I reviewed last summer.

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Tripper’s local flavors

Charlie Tripper’s restaurant says We Are Committed To LOCAL FLAVORS:
Whenever possible we us[sic] local meats, cheese and produce to provide our diners with fresh and dynamic flavors. Local products from the likes of Gayla’s Grits, Horner Farms, Sweet Grass Dairy and Thompson Farms allow Charlie Tripper’s to serve delicious and local farmstead fare year round. Menus are subject to change in order to accommodate seasonality and availability.
4479 North Valdosta Road
Valdosta, Georgia, 31602
229-247-0366
This post owed to Buddy Boswell.

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Healthy Moe’s?

Moe’s to get new, fresher menu By Jeremiah McWilliams, AJC, 13 Jan 2011:
The Atlanta-based burrito chain will roll out a new nationwide menu on Jan. 24, top executives told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Coming soon to 420-plus restaurants will be grass-fed sirloin steak with no added hormones. The pork will be hormone-free, steroid-free and grain-fed. Moe’s says its chicken will be hormone-free and not raised in cages, and the tofu will be organic.
Sounds good to me. Why are they doing this?
“The Moe’s consumers have told us this is something they want,” said Paul Damico, president of the brand. “We take that information seriously. They tell us they want fresh, they want sustainable.”
Voting at the checkout counter works!

They have three locations in Valdosta:

1525 Baytree Rd.
Valdosta, GA 31602
(229) 293-0663

3145 North Ashley Street
Valdosta, GA 31602
(229) 333-0649

1500 Patterson Street
Valdosta, GA 31698
229-259-2506

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PS: And I learned that Moe’s is based in Atlanta.