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	<description>Food for thought, for science, for art and for life.</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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=188</guid>
		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Envisaging Alaska&#8217;s food future</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2009/04/22/envisaging-alaskas-food-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=174</guid>
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As much as we might hope otherwise, we here in the Interior will not, at least anytime soon, be growing all of our food. I report this finding following a truly excellent presentation given last month by soon-to-be-Dr. Alison Meadow, of the UAF Anthropology Department. Alison has put together some truly cutting edge research on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where our food comes from</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2009/02/05/where-our-food-comes-from/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Republished with permission from the January issue of the Ester Republic.
This January marks the third calendar year that I’ve written the column for the ER, and though I have often mentioned or drawn upon the writings of others, I have never come right out and provided a legitimate, start-to-finish book review. It always seems a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stepping up to the plate in your watershed</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2009/01/27/stepping-up-to-the-plate-in-your-watershed/</link>
		<comments>http://thefireweed.com/2009/01/27/stepping-up-to-the-plate-in-your-watershed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jedediah Smith</dc:creator>
		
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<category>Water</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=164</guid>
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The role of the volunteer is not to be underestimated, and in the case of the Tanana Valley Watershed Association and other similar partnerships in Alaska, where I am focusing my research as part of my graduate studies in environmental policy, volunteers are an integral piece of a healthy watershed. Watershed partnerships are informal governing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Watershed Jed</title>
		<link>http://thefireweed.com/2009/01/26/welcome-watershed-je/</link>
		<comments>http://thefireweed.com/2009/01/26/welcome-watershed-je/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Loring</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thefireweed.com/?p=170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jed meet the readers&#8230; readers meet Jed! Jedediah R. Smith is one of my colleagues at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and I&#8217;ve asked him to contribute to the Fireweed when he has the time. My time in Arizona has made it all to clear to me that water is an issue that should be [...]]]></description>
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