In a recent blog post in Prevention Robyn O'Brien founder of Allergy Kids had been invited to speak to a group of 400 in Montana that included farmers, parents, foodies and agriculturalists. As O'Brien reports, she opened the night to questions, reporting a farmer’s daughter spoke hesitatingly at first about seed companies and global banks. O'Brien makes
I am a big fan of the "process" used in the Story of Stuff Project. The Story of Stuff Project was founded in 2008 by Annie Leonard as response to a need for more information and ways to get involved. The Story of Stuff Project , is a series of online movies that are, brief and easily
The fact is, organic food has become a wildly lucrative business for Big Food and a premium-price-means-premium-profit section of the grocery store. The industry’s image — contented cows grazing on the green hills of family-owned farms — is mostly pure fantasy. Or rather, pure marketing. Big Food, it turns out, has spawned what might
Sandy Lerner in a recent blog, speaks to food conglomerates protecting their assets and to the price we all pay including among other things increased rates of human disease, from allergies to cancer. Read Sandy Lerner's June 29, 2012 post What Price? Here in the Ayrshire Farm Journal.