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Cork Forests Threatened
Audubon Magazine has an article on the ecology of cork forests, now threatened as wine manufacturers move to more economical screw-top bottles. I don’t really have anything to add to the article… more →
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Cork Forests Threatened
lawforfood wrote 1 year ago: Audubon Magazine has an article on the ecology of cork forests, now threatened as wine manufacturers … more →
"Luxury Comfort Food" is an Oxymoron
lawforfood wrote 1 year ago: Too right. … more →
The Power of Just-in-time Logistics, in the Palm of Your Hand
lawforfood wrote 1 year ago: In today’s New York Times, David Pogue reviews a device called the Ikan which seems to be a co … more →
Short Beer Pints: Do We Need A Law?
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lawforfood wrote 1 year ago: According to The Wall Street Journal, as beer prices rise in response to the rising costs of raw inp … more →
Let me get this straight...
lawforfood wrote 1 year ago: … Steven Dubner, co-author of the acclaimed book Freakonomics has a bad first experience makin … more →
Mea Culpa: Cowardice and Politics
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lawforfood wrote 1 year ago: Readers of this website, if indeed any remain, deserve an explanation, if not an apology, for the lo … more →
Drive-By Libertarian v. Straw-Man Foodie
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lawforfood wrote 1 year ago: Reason Magazine issues a salvo in the fast-food restaurant labeling discussion, arguing that in our … more →
Hops shortage in favor of subsidized corn
lawforfood wrote 1 year ago: Craft beer connoisseurs will be facing higher prices due to a hops shortage driving prices up about … more →
On the Congressional power to regulate vending machines.
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lawforfood wrote 1 year ago: Andrew Sullivan asks, “Since when did the federal Congress have the right to micro-manage what … more →
Opting Out
lawforfood wrote 2 years ago: Guest-Blogger Erin over at Crunchy Con raises an interesting point that is tangential to the notion … more →
Materialism and Happiness
lawforfood wrote 2 years ago: Not technically food related at all, but I suspect many readers will find interesting this discussio … more →
Feminism v. Locavorism
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lawforfood wrote 2 years ago: For some reason, a number of stories have made it onto the radar about the apparent tension between … more →
Eating Well, Poorly
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lawforfood wrote 2 years ago: I was blessed in my childhood by having a mother who was very food-aware. We became farmers almost o … more →
Objections to the Farm Bill On All Sides of the Political Spectrum
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lawforfood wrote 2 years ago: Not news, exactly, and readers of this blog probably already know all of this stuff, but a fairly co … more →
Paying For It, Round 2
lawforfood wrote 2 years ago: The following chart appears in connection with an article in Good Medicine, entitled “Why Does … more →
Undecided about Fois Gras
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lawforfood wrote 2 years ago: The Real Potato sums up the moral dimensions of fois gras remarkably well: “I’ll be honest wit … more →
Regulatory Design: Fois Gras
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lawforfood wrote 2 years ago: There’s a good discussion of the ethics and politics of fois gras over at Accidental Hedonist, … more →
Food Patents and Antitrust
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lawforfood wrote 2 years ago: So, thanks to something the Ethicurean asked about last summer, I am working on a paper about Monsan … more →
Bourdain is Right
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lawforfood wrote 2 years ago: About Fois Gras, at least. Although not universally accepted in negligence suits, the Learned Hand f … more →
