Wal-Mart has announced it wants to do for organic food what it's done for the rest of the economy. Alexander Cockburn explains what this means. (scroll down to second item)
Tonight, before you waste another Wednesday, we suggest that you sweat out your hump day frustrations with the boys from Busy Work at Detroit Bar. Conducted by DJ Dan Sena, GMO, Clifford Lidell and Rock Berry, this weekly audio romp delivers an all-night mix of techno, house and hip-hop that has become a staple at this Costa Mesa culture cove. The DJs start spinning around 9 p.m and by the time you look down to check your watch, it'll already be Thursday. Tonight's as good a night as any to come
It takes quite the personality to motivate about 10 suburbanites to get up early Sunday morning, drive an hour and a half to San Diego County, and end up in the unincorporated community of Rainbow for the honor of picking weeds for nothing, but that's the type of gal Donna Buono is. The San Clemente resident runs Morning Song Farms, which supplies damn-good restaurant Old Vine Café with much of the veggies and fruits for their wondrous meals, and operates a CSA (community-supported agriculture)
As reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition yesterday, the British-commissioned survey, which took its findings from 55 studies made in the past 50 years, claims that eating organic food "will make no important difference to a person's overall health".According to Alan Dangour, one of the report's authors, "A small number of differences in nutrient content were found to exist between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs, but these are unlikely to be of any public h
