Mmm, financialized food
You don’t get cheap meat without cheap feed. And you don’t get cheap feed without cheap grain. That’s the basic…
Shrinkflation, meet assize
Chapter 4 of Food Margins has a whole chunk about the medieval Assize of Bread and Ale, and about how I…
Why do we celebrate new food banks?
I just got an email about the opening of a new food bank on the east side of Toronto, my…
Oh please. Read some history.
Honestly, I gnash my teeth a lot when reading food journalism (or rather, “storytelling” as it now tends to be…
COOL OFF
No, I’m not yelling. Just really interested and heartened to see so many farmers and ranchers going up against Big…
Anti-trust back from the brink?
The last time there was real appetite for going after anti-competitive practices in the grocery business was the 1930s. The…
Oh, Farm Bill, where did you go so wrong?
FERN partnered with Mother Jones on this reeeeally good look at five historical turning points when the US Farm Bill…
Can good food ever be huge?
I’m just catching up on this fairly amazing report out of the UK from last fall, flatly challenging the idea…
On being “the other other half”
Fellow Canadian Jon Randell Smith has a soul-searching post on Eating an Island about food security that resonates with what…
The unfinished industrial past OLD POST
As someone interested in the processes by which some piece of life becomes framed as “past,” I find industrial history…
