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		<title>Ann Vileisis: Sowing seeds of good health and of unity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since President Obama took office in January, he&#8217;s kept his eye on the grand prize of making political discourse more civil. He&#8217;s held up the ideal that Democrats and Republicans can find common ground and move beyond shrill partisan warring that has characterized politics for the last twenty-five years.
In looking for places to boost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Vileisis: Considering bees, industrious but not industrial</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/287/ann-vileisis-considering-bees-industrious-but-not-industrial</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays when I see bees in my garden, I pay close attention.
I have noticed at least four different types. They buzz purposely—so focused on the periwinkle blue flowers of my rosemary hedge. I crouch down to examine their fuzzy bodies and the gorgeous floral interiors that are the center of their apian attention. The wondrous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Vileisis: The Pleasures of a Big Fat Book</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/283/ann-vileisis-slow-food-for-thought-the-pleasures-of-a-big-fat-book</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve enjoyed giving greater attention to what I eat and where it comes from. I&#8217;ve canned fresh local tuna, grown leafy greens and purple potatoes in my garden, baked fresh breads, learned the stories of my apples and berries, and generally taken a slow-food approach to nourishing my body.
But last fall, I realized that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Vileisis: Obama’s pick for Sec. of Agriculture—not a food guy</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/276/ann-vileisis-the-ghost-of-an-ag-secretary-past</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Today’s announcement that President-elect Obama will be appointing Iowa Governor Thomas Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture is a major disappointment for those who have been rattling for reform of our food system. Vilsack has been a major proponent of biotechnology and biotech companies. (The Organic Consumers Association has called him “a shill for Monsanto and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Vileisis: Time to break the low-meat barrier</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annvileisis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At climate talks in Poland last week, delegates considered the issue of farm emissions. Globally farm animals generate 18 percent of greenhouse gasses—that&#8217;s more than cars, planes, and buses. According to The New York Times (&#8220;As more eat meat, a bid to cut emissions&#8221;), delegates considered some technological solutions, such as converting waste methane gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Vileisis: Young Farmer on the Rise</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/262/ann-vilesis-young-farmer-on-the-rise</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my recent book Kitchen Literacy, I concluded by urging readers to learn where their food comes from and how it is raised. In developing my own &#8220;kitchen literacy,&#8221; I&#8217;ve enjoyed getting to know one of the farmers who grow the veggies I buy: Zöe Bradbury.
At age 29 and already accomplished in advocacy, education, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Vileisis: Thanksgiving, our quintessential local-food holiday</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/254/ann-vileisis-thanksgiving-our-nation%e2%80%99s-quintessential-local-food-holiday</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all our national holidays I&#8217;ve always loved Thanksgiving best. Aside from the fun of cooking and eating terrific food together, it&#8217;s the only national holiday that hasn&#8217;t degenerated into an entirely commercial affair.
In fact, it even seems to recognize America&#8217;s natural abundance. The story of Thanksgiving is fundamentally about our American relationship with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Vileisis: Will Obama take on food?</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/247/ann-vileisis-will-obama-take-on-food</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
In the months leading up to the election, food activists (see the video by The White House Organic Farm Project, a.k.a. TheWhoFarm.org below) have been salivating over the possibility that they could convince the next president to turn up some sunny expanse of White House lawn and put in a lush and leafy organic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Vileisis: A big vote for knowing how our food is raised</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/234/ann-vileisis-a-big-vote-for-knowing-how-our-food-is-raised</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
November 4, 2008 will be best remembered for the historic election of Barack Obama, but it was also a day when Californians voted their gut and their appetite.
With the passage of Proposition 2, over 63 percent of California voters cast ballots in favor of a higher standard for the treatment of animals raised for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Vileisis: Eat Less Freight</title>
		<link>http://blog.islandpress.org/62/ann-vileisis-eat-less-freight</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With gas prices rising to over $4.00 per gallon, long-hidden costs of the fuel embedded within our food system are beginning to show with higher prices at the supermarket checkout. The legacy of once-cheap oil, petroleum now pervades every phase of America’s food production. It’s used to make fertilizer and pesticides, to pump water for [...]]]></description>
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