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	<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What role for local food?</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2010/06/06/what-role-for-local-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted with permission from the May 2010 issue of the Ester Republic.
A question came up at a lecture I was giving with two of my colleagues recently, regarding whether or not agriculture in Alaska could meet the food needs of the entire state. The issue was raised as something of an indirect critique of local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are vegetarians green?</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2010/05/11/are-vegetarians-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 00:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-printed from the April 2010 issue of the Ester Republic.
Eating more vegetables is advice you hear a lot of these days. It is good advice in an age where people consume significantly more animal protein than is necessary, or even rational. Our culture&#8217;s unprecedented meat hunger is a top offender among the sustainability-minded, right up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Hot Dogs and Red Herring</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2010/04/08/red-hot-dogs-and-red-herring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted from the March 2010 issue of the Ester Republic
New England is known for a number of food traditions: lobster, clam bakes, brown bread, baked beans, and my childhood favorite, red hot dogs. Red hot dogs are most commonly encountered in Maine. They&#8217;re made fresh by local butchers without any nitrates or corn syrup, packed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not technologies of the same order</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2010/04/08/not-technologies-of-the-same-order/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted from the January 2010 issue of the Ester Republic.
One of the most potent of the seven* myths of industrial agriculture is the claim that biotechnology will eventually solve all of the problems that people like me point out about industrial agriculture. This is an especially potent myth, because it taps into our society&#8217;s collective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dirty Job</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2009/12/02/a-dirty-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted with permission from the December 2009 issue of the Ester Republic.
My moms, recalling their recent visit to Polyface Farm in Staunton, VA, kept returning to one thing that struck them most about their visit to Joel Salatin&#8217;s icon of small-scale agriculture: it did not stink. There to purchase free-range turkeys for the holidays, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now What?</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2009/11/02/now-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted with permission from the November, 2009 Ester Republic.

In the powerful book Fatal Harvest, a collection of essays on industrial agriculture edited by Andrew Kimbrell, seven common myths are identified that make up the “big lie” of industrial agriculture. These include such chestnuts as “industrial food is cheaper”, and “industrial agriculture offers more variety.” Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Choices</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2009/10/02/smart-choices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted with permission from the October, 2009 issue of the Ester Republic
Recently a consortium of food companies established an opt-in food labeling program called “Smart Choices.” According to the Smart Choices website, http://www.smartchoicesprogram.com/ ,

The Smart Choices Program was motivated by the need for a single, trusted and reliable front-	of-pack nutrition labeling program that U.S. food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deus Ex Machina</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2009/09/02/deus-ex-machina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted with permission From the September, 2009 issue of the Ester Republic.
Out of the blue. Thats what I thought when I heard the news that Obama&#8217;s justice department has  launched a broadly-scaled antitrust investigation of &#8216;Big Ag&#8217;. How can they manage this new front in what is an ongoing ideological battle between the &#8216;left&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: Eating Alaska</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2009/06/16/film-review-eating-alaska/</link>
		<comments>http://thefireweed.com/2009/06/16/film-review-eating-alaska/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“What happens when a vegetarian moves to the last frontier?” This may sound like the introduction to a wry joke, but in this case the answer I am looking for is not “they become fair game like the rest of the herbivores.” Rather, this is the question that filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein uses to frame her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No chicken left behind!</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2009/06/03/no-chicken-left-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://thefireweed.com/2009/06/03/no-chicken-left-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
As my wife and I got ready to mount a return trek to Alaska from our sojourn into the desert, I found that there was one final dispatch I wanted to record in my Ester Republic column, &#8216;Outpost Agriculture,&#8217; one lesson that I had repeatedly missed, though it was regularly (and quite literally) staring me [...]]]></description>
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