I won’t be able to make the screening of “Dirt! The Movie,” at 7 p.m. Monday, May 24, but I hope you and lots of other people do. Films for Action and Local Burger are presenting the movie and a follow-up panel to discuss the film. Our hat is off to both Films for Action […]
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Roundup: The dirt on soil, gardens, more
May 21st, 2010 · Comments Off on Roundup: The dirt on soil, gardens, more · Food in the news, local food, Roundup
Kansans to give perspective on Food Inc.
May 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Food in the news, local food
If you missed it in the theaters, on video and last week on PBS, you still can see Food Inc. this week on KTWU, Channel 11, in Topeka, and you’ll get a Kansas perspective, too. The Oscar-nominated movie is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 5, on KTWU. Even if you have seen the […]
Roundup: Doing, learning for better food
October 30th, 2009 · Comments Off on Roundup: Doing, learning for better food · Roundup
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). […]
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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 about food, 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 (July […]