Some highlights of last night’s dinner with friends. Sweet corn at its fresh and local peak. Three kinds of pasture-raised meat (beef, goat, lamb) cooked over a fire fueled with wood from the same property. Homemade coffee ice cream with chocolate chunks. Fruit salad made entirely of fruit from friends’ farm. The fruits included plums, […]
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Roundup: Pharma-food; local growers, local harvest
July 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on Roundup: Pharma-food; local growers, local harvest · Food in the news, local food, Roundup
My tax dollars at work. It didn’t get much attention in Kansas, but controversial pharma-food producer Ventria got a nice loan from me and my fellow taxpayers. Now they’re talking an over-the-counter product instead of saving third-world children. What a surprise! (The biggest report in the Wichita Eagle, mere mentions in KC Star, Lawrence J-W, […]
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