Kitchen Table Talks: What We Can Learn about Community Building from Quesada...
Jeffery Betcher was clear — he and his fellow organizers consider themselves community, not food, activists. Betcher, co-founder of the successful Quesada Gardens Initiative in the Bayview Hunters...
View ArticleKitchen Table Talks: What You Need to Know About Genetically Engineered Food...
For its sixth installment, Kitchen Table Talks will begin to dissect the complex issues of genetically engineered foods and equip participants with knowledge and specific actions to protect...
View ArticleKitchen Table Talks No. 6: What You Need to Know About Genetically Engineered...
For the sixth installment of Kitchen Table Talks on Oct. 27, about 60 people gathered at the SUB-Mission Gallery in the Mission District of San Francisco to join renowned U.C. Berkeley Microbial...
View ArticleKitchen Table Talks: The Farmer and the Fisherman Talk Water
It is impossible to build a sustainable food system without addressing the issues surrounding water. The struggle over water in California is more than a century old and continues today with an $11...
View ArticleKitchen Table Talks: Magnificent Mushrooms
For the next Kitchen Table Talks in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 7, 2010, we’re going beyond shiitakes and portabellas with a group of mushroom maestros as our guides to the little-known wonders...
View ArticleReport on Kitchen Table Talks: Magnificent Mushrooms
At the beginning of last December, the basement of Viracocha Gallery was brimming with some of the most exotic, rare, delicious, and even deadly mushrooms in the Bay Area. The astonishing array of...
View ArticleCorporate Lovebirds of the Mutant Corn
Today, some will feel the sting of cupid’s arrow and fill their days with red roses and chocolate (hopefully fair trade) and a romantic dinner at a fancy restaurant. Other people call today Black...
View ArticleCultivating Influence: The 2008 Farm Bill Lobbying Frenzy
As Congress navigates its way through the 2012 Farm Bill process, Food & Water Watch today released a report that delineates the special interest lobbying efforts that shaped the 2008 Farm Bill....
View ArticleWho’s Deceiving Whom? Prop 37 Has Corps Running Scared
Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, Pepsi and Coke are scared. They’re afraid that California’s proposition 37 to make labeling of genetically engineered foods mandatory will end their unchecked, unquestioned...
View ArticleGE Salmon Swims Towards Approval, How’s that for a Holiday Surprise?
Move over Grinch. The FDA is doing everything in its power to give American consumers a terrible holiday gift this year. Today they took the final step toward approving genetically engineered (GE)...
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