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Beyond organic and local?

By Culinate staff

April 7, 2009

A while back, we mentioned the Mother Jones March/April issue on food; at that time, only some of the issue’s content was available online. Now, however, it’s all there: pieces by Paul Roberts and Bonnie Powell, and interviews with Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman (the latter, audio only).

Solutions to some contemporary food problems are imagined by editors Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein, who write,

Sometimes, it turns out, the best way to get rid of a lot of herbicides can be a little herbicide, and we might get our produce not from idyllic farms, but from hydroponic skyscrapers and greenhouse megaplexes set on urban brownfields or the roof of a Costco.

Want to continue the conversation? Next week, tune in to a Mother Jones Web forum on the topic of food.

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