The Luddite’s Moonshot

...list of things they can help with: Mediterranean gardening with perennial food crops. Mammalian garden invasions, i.e. those infernal squirrels/raccoons/skunks. Meal preparation for busy people. I realize the tech bros have taken up this problem with services such as Blue Apron and Hello Fresh. But I think there’s a better way we can do this at home without the shipping and packaging. Preventing food waste in the home. Internet distraction/news a...

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117 Raw Milk with David Gumpert

...or editor of Inc. David is the author of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights, The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights and the Raw Milk Answer Book. You can find his blog and sign up for his newsletter at The Complete Patient. One of the things that comes up in the conversation is the dairy episode of the Netflix documentary Rotten. David posted a review of that episode on his blog. If you’d like to leav...

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Saturday Tweets: Halloween Edition

Just How Much Food Do Cities Squander? https://t.co/Tj7lhYlQdQ via @WIRED — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 27, 2017 When drivers start going on about a "War on Cars," remind them that cars in the city are a war on our children.#obesity #crashes #pollution pic.twitter.com/hlomv2sMJ1 — Taras Grescoe (@grescoe) October 24, 2017 Pictures Reveal Life Inside Tiny Futuristic Cubes https://t.co/NCmeuJMO2A via @NatGeoPhotos — Root Simple (@rootsimple)...

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Vote Yes on 37!

...te yes on proposition 37. Proposition 37 will require genetically modified food products to be labelled. And that’s all–it’s not a ban on GMOs. If you like GMOs in your food you’ll still be able to get them in your hot Cheetos. All I’m asking is to be given a choice, through labeling, as to whether I wish to buy GMO products or not. I suspect it’s preaching to the choir to endorse 37 on Root Simple, but if you have relatives and friends in the Gol...

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