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Slow Food
Eat Well at Home and on the Road
EatWellGuide.org’s list of thousands of small-scale farms, organic restaurants and
other ‘green food’ outlets throughout the United States and Canada continues to
grow, signaling America’s shift in consciousness. Simply key in a zip code or city
to turn up stores, restaurants and caterers, even personal chefs, who do it right.
Such new digital tools “allow us to bypass the big advertisers, the mega-chains, the
junk peddlers, and instead fi nd all the other people growing, processing, cooking
and eating actual, delicious food,” says Bill McKibben, author of Cultivating the
Web.
EatWellGuide.org’s latest feature even helps us fi nd local, sustainable, or-
Valle De Vinales
ganic food wherever we travel, to create a top-notch eating itinerary. “A little bit of
Cuban Connection
research in advance of an adventure can offer an inquisitive eater a range of deli-
Caribbean Neighbor Shows
cious memories that truly taste of a place,” comments Allison Radecki, a graduate
Environmental Promise
of Slow Food’s University of Gastronomic Sciences.
A mere 90 miles from Florida’s Key
For recommendations and recipes, also visit The Green Fork project,
West, Cuba is still a world away, envi-
at Blog.EatWellGuide.org.
ronmentally speaking. With more than
4,200 islets and keys, the country teems
with marine and terrestrial treasures.
10 More Years Half of its southern coast is mangrove
Victory Protects Arctic Breeding Ground forest, the largest fi sh nursery of its kind
Grassroots and courtroom pressures by several environmental groups have fi nally
in the Caribbean. Its coral reefs are
convinced the Bush administration to postpone oil and gas leasing in most of
among the most intact in the region.
the Teshekpuk Lake area of Alaska’s Western Arctic
Politics have insulated Cuba from
Reserve for a decade. More than 200,000 citizen
development and the environmental
comments joined warnings from biologists and wild-
destruction that so often accompanies
life managers calling for preservation of this pristine
it, reports the Environmental Defense
breeding ground for migratory birds and caribou. The
Fund (EDF). But pressures from hotels
next push will be for legislation to permanently pro-
and offshore oil interests are mounting.
Teshekpuk Lake
tect this world-class wildlife habitat.
Over the past eight years, with U.S.
“This long-awaited reversal is a milestone in our campaign to block Big Oil
government permission, the fund has
from destroying one of the most important tundra wetland systems on the planet,”
helped Cuban scientists implement new
says Chuck Clusen, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Alaska
environmental laws, laying the founda-
Project. The group reports that the oil industry already has drilling rights to 87
tion for conservation. Already, Cuba is
percent of the northeastern portion of the reserve.
one of the few Caribbean countries to
reverse deforestation. “Cuba has excel-
Factory Farms
lent laws in place,” says EDF attorney
Government Study Questions Pending EPA Rules
Dan Whittle. “The challenge is imple-
A new study by the Government Accountability Offi ce
mentation.”
(GAO) confi rms the dangerous levels of airborne and wa-
Still, “The Cubans are motivated
terborne pollutants emanating from factory farms, known
to protect their environment,” observes
as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
Scott Edwards, EDF’s Caribbean oceans
Researchers found that some of these operations annual-
director. “Cuba could become a model
ly produce more raw waste than is generated by residents
for marine and coastal stewardship.”
of major U.S. cities.
Compounding the problem, the number of CAFOs has multiplied over the past
20 years, from 3,600 in 1982 to nearly 12,000 by 2002. The number of animals
raised on large farms simultaneously climbed from 257 million to 890 million.
Processed foods not only
Twenty-seven other studies directly or indirectly link pollution from CAFOs
with impacts on public health or the environment, especially in communities near
extend the shelf life, but they
these facilities. The GAO study questions the Environmental Protection Agency’s
proposed rule to exempt CAFOs from reporting certain toxic gas emissions above
extend the waistline as well.
100 pounds a day.
Source: News from Congress media release
—Karen Sessions
10 Greater Oakland, Macomb & Livingston
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