A little while ago I wrote about the debasement of ordinary words and their exploitation for pure commercial advantage. Dominos Pizza leads the pack as it cynically pushes the ‘Dominos Artisan Pizza’ and presumably relies on no lesser authority than Lewis Carrol’s Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass: ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said [...]
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What does it mean to be an ‘artisan’ food producer?
Posted by pundles on 10 May 2012
http://pauseforfood.com/2012/05/10/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-artisan-food-producer/
Tomatoland – how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit
Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook exposes the “human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry” in this compelling account. I picked up Tomatoland thinking it to be simply a book about the industrialisation of a favourite food, but it is much, much more and provides a graphic account of the politics of [...]
Posted by pundles on 16 January 2012
http://pauseforfood.com/2012/01/16/tomatoland-how-modern-industrial-agriculture-destroyed-our-most-alluring-fruit/
