Where is the sustainable supply of higher-standard eggs, meat, and dairy going to come from?
Source: Fast-Food Chains Are Demanding Ethical Products. How Will Farmers Keep Up? – Eater
The move comes amidst concerns over child labor.
Source: KitKats Will Soon Be Made With Sustainable Chocolate – Eater
More and more people are getting sick.
Source: Cucumber-Related Salmonella Outbreak Grows to 30 States – Eater
If you want to see the future of agriculture, look up.
Source: Is Vertical Farming the Future of Food? | Lucky Peach
Fair trade? Direct trade? Shade grown? Here’s what it all means, and which of it is nonsense. (Spoiler: a lot of it is nonsense.)
A spoonful of sugar I guess, but in this case honey!
The beekeeping program bringing North and South Koreans together.
Source: Just Like Honey | Lucky Peach
From ancho to pasilla, and everything in between.
The first story in a new column with Dr. Arielle Johnson, head of research for MAD in Copenhagen.
When food is made with love, you can taste it. So it goes with Benton’s Country Ham, a North Madisonville, Tennessee-based business that produces what many call the best bacon in the country.
via A Day In The Life Of Alan Benton, America’s Unofficial King Of Bacon.
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It will be made with 10,000 new varieties of grapes.
Winemaker Randall Grahm — the founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard in Santa Cruz, Calif. — has launched an Indiegogo campaign to create the first New World Grand Cru. A Grand Cru is a regional classification of wine that denotes “the highest-quality vineyard areas.” Grahm hopes to transform the “unique terroirs” of his Popelouchum Estates in San Juan Bautista, Calif. into a vineyard that achieves the designation.
“If anyone could do it Randal Graham could.”
To do this, he plans to breed 10,000 grape varieties that have not existed before and blend them into a new wine. The campaign explains: “The intention of the breeding program is to incorporate
via Ambitious Winemaker Aims to Create First New World Grand Cru – Eater.
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