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Boulder County
Blair Madole (Boulder Weekly — Feb 2, 2012)
 If you are trying to avoid GMOs and the potential for strange growths or zombie-like qualities this summer, participating in a CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, may be a good choice.
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(Denver Post — Jan 28, 2012)
 If beef is what’s for dinner, officials in Boulder think it should carry the city’s name. Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Department is developing a “Boulder brand for natural beef,” according to city documents. And at the same time, the department is looking at partnering with a mystery company to convert about 200 acres of open space grazing land into a large “farm-to-table” facility as part of the city’s push for more local food production.
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Andrew Gunther (Huffington Post — Jan 25, 2012)
 Ask any farmer to list his or her major challenges and the issue of who will take over the farm when it’s time to retire will no doubt feature in the top 10. According to government statistics about 40% of U.S. farmers are 55 years old and up, raising real concerns about exactly who is going to fill their shoes. The sad fact is that there are fewer young people getting involved in farming than ever, and many young people see no future in the family farm. As a result, countless family farms are being bought up and absorbed by larger industrial operations. In my opinion this is one of the greatest tragedies of our generation.
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Kirk Johnson (NY Times — Aug 16, 2011)
 The idea of making school lunches better and healthier has gathered steam in many parts of the nation in recent years, but not equally for every child. Schools with money and involved parents concerned about obesity and nutrition charged ahead, while poor and struggling districts, overwhelmed by hard times, mostly did not.
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Mark Collins (Boulder Daily Camera — Jan 23, 2012)
 The Jewish holy book the Torah was written many centuries ago, long before a person’s carbon footprint became a topic of discussion.
“We’re looking at GMOs, we’re looking at pesticides, we’re looking at an era where you can eat anything you want in any season because it’s coming from 5,000 miles away,” said Becky O’Brien, director of community engagement for the local chapter of Hazon. “None of that existed when teachings that we’re using now to make decisions around that stuff were written.”
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Laura Snider (Boulder Daily Camera — Dec 20, 2011)
 The three Boulder County commissioners voted unanimously this afternoon to allow genetically modified organisms to be planted on county-owned open space land with restrictions. The commissioners supported the continued planting of corn that has been genetically engineered to resist the herbicide glyphosate or to resist insects. Planting GMO corn was first approved in Boulder County in 2003.
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Laura Snider (Boulder Daily Camera — Dec 17, 2011)
 In the last several months — as three different advisory groups have weighed in on how Boulder County should manage its croplands — swarms of local activists, who believe genetically modified organisms should be banned on open space, have stolen the show.
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Jefferson Dodge (Boulder Weekly — Dec 15, 2011)
 This is a tweet sent by Colorado state Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg on Nov. 19 at the annual convention of the Colorado Farm Bureau, one of the agricultural powerhouses involved in generating the huge farmer turnout at the Dec. 8 cropland policy hearing. It is an apparent threat to state funding for Boulder County, should the commissioners decide to ban or phase out the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on open space land.
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David Wann (Alliance For Sustainable Colorado — Dec 12, 2011)
 Many are living in a candy shop psychosis in which we consider it a sensible trade to let the ice caps melt and the tumors take root if the Whoppers and PopTarts just keep coming. That illusion, however, is fading in a society that is beginning to see diet as a moral decision, related to essential human needs like vitality, social connections, fairness, security, kindness, and even sanity. In a world of changing values, near-future peers may not respect us if we are mindless, self-centered eaters.
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Editor
 I served on the Food and Agriculture Policy Council for two years, and that experience convinced me that GMOs have no place in our food supply.
But I am greatly saddened by the rancorous polarization that has characterized so much of this debate. And I have seen that the whole issue of GMOs on Open Space land has become something of a red herring.
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EAT LOCAL! Directory
EAT LOCAL! Campaign
 …The Transition movement is actually just a part of something much larger, a deep and rapidly moving cultural shift in our society which, in Paul Hawken’s words, represents the planet’s immune system kicking in, a powerful and even revolutionary grassroots-to-grasstops community response to the whole broad range of converging global crises. Underneath all these various movements and organizations—and what we make explicit in the Transition movement—is the impulse for community healing and regeneration. There are two areas where we see many of these movements beginning to converge and overlap. The first has to do with food, local food. This is the local food movement, or the local food revolution—or what we call it, the local food shift. The second has to do with shifting local capital to invest in the well-being of our communities…
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Global
Shannon Hayes (Yes Magazine — Jan 30, 2012)
 The truth is, food in the grocery store is not cheap. We pay for it in advance with our tax dollars, which support farm subsidies that go to support an ecologically problematic industrialized food system. We pay for it with the lives of our soldiers and with the unfathomable military expenditures that support our national reliance on fossil fuels, upon which the industrial farming model is completely dependent. The prices only look cheap because we are paying for them someplace else: through our taxes, and via the destruction of our soil, water, and natural resources through irresponsible farming practices.
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Julia Olmstead (Common Dreams — Jan 28,. 2012)
 With climate change making extreme weather the new normal, it’s prudent to do everything we can to protect our food supply
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Sayer Ji (Activist Post — Jan 22, 2012)
 One of the most disturbing, though commonly overlooked properties of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is their documented ability to transfer genetic information horizontally into those who consume them.
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(Salon Magazine — Jan 21, 2012)
 It’s easy to make fun of, but as more and more farming moves downtown, eating local is taking on a new flavor
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(Mother Earth News — Dec 2011/Jan 2012)
 Evidence continues to accumulate that our industrial food system is not serving us well when it comes to the nutrient value of food. True, American agribusiness has given us one of the cheapest food supplies in the world, but science reveals this food is “cheap” in more ways than one. Here are some of the things we know at this point:
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Jon Bosak (TC Local — Jan 16, 2012)
 The Town of Ithaca recognizes that agriculture is an integral part of the Town’s economy and environment, provides locally grown food and other agricultural products, and enhances the quality of life for Town residents. The Town proactively promotes a diversity of farm types, seeks the long-term preservation of the Town’s agricultural-land resources, supports the economic viability of the farming community and the profitability of each farm, values the local public agricultural research and educational resources, and encourages the general public to understand and support local agriculture.
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Robin Broad (Yes Magazine — Jan 17, 2012)
 Whether you’re worried about hunger, social crises, or climate change, the answer is the same: small-scale farmers are our only hope.
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Dana Gunders (Grist — Jan 16, 2012)
 Have you ever considered what that rotten food in your refrigerator costs? The average American family of four throws out an estimated $130-175 per month in spoiled and discarded food. That’s real money going straight into the garbage or compost bin instead of paying off your credit card bills.
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(The Atlantic — Jan 9, 2012)
 New research shows that when we eat we’re consuming more than just vitamins and protein. Our bodies are absorbing information, or microRNA.The news that we’re ingesting information as well as physical material should force the biotech industry to confront the possibility that new DNA can have dangerous implications far beyond the products it codes for. Can we count on the biotech industry to accept the notion that more testing is necessary? Not if such action is perceived as a threat to the bottom line.
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(Contraposition — Jan, 2012)
 Given industrial food’s dependence on petroleum, it’s easy to conclude that peak oil poses a serious threat to our food supply. And it’s likewise easy, given the importance of food in our lives, to conclude that making food peak-oil-resilient is one of the first things to worry about. So it’s a nice surprise to hear permaculturist extraordinaire Toby Hemenway argue that food is in fact the last thing to worry about.
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