Know your meat source. Grassfed beef biggie Tallgrass Beef of Sedan, Kansas, is the latest client of IdentiGEN North America Inc., subsidiary of the Irish IdentiGEN Ltd. The company’s DNA TraceBack technology allows meat to be traced to the farm where it was raised (unlike, say, the tainted hamburger recounted recently in the NY Times). [...]
Entries Tagged as 'movies'
Roundup: Doing, learning for better food
October 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Roundup
Tags:beef·composting·gardening·movies
Food Inc. unsurprising but powerfully presented
July 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Food in the news, Food selection
If you’re interested in food and you’ve been paying attention the last few years, you probably won’t see much in Food Inc. that will surprise you. I didn’t when I saw it yesterday. Still, I came away impressed, as Food Inc. ladles out the bad food news—the illnesses, the abuses, the power—making it more powerful [...]
Food Inc. to play Lawrence, Kansas, this weekend
July 22nd, 2009 · 8 Comments · Books, Food in the news, Growing food
Just got word (thanks, Dan!) that Food, Inc., the much-talked-about film documentary about our food system, is going to be playing at Liberty Hall starting Friday. (I mentioned it two weeks ago.) The times and dates posted on the Liberty Hall site are as follows:
Friday & Saturday (July 24-25): 4:30, 7:00, 9:20
Sunday [...]
