Yearly Archives: 2011

Tripper’s local flavors

Charlie Tripper’s restaurant says We Are Committed To LOCAL FLAVORS:
Whenever possible we us[sic] local meats, cheese and produce to provide our diners with fresh and dynamic flavors. Local products from the likes of Gayla’s Grits, Horner Farms, Sweet Grass Dairy and Thompson Farms allow Charlie Tripper’s to serve delicious and local farmstead fare year round. Menus are subject to change in order to accommodate seasonality and availability.
4479 North Valdosta Road
Valdosta, Georgia, 31602
229-247-0366
This post owed to Buddy Boswell.

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Healthy Moe’s?

Moe’s to get new, fresher menu By Jeremiah McWilliams, AJC, 13 Jan 2011:
The Atlanta-based burrito chain will roll out a new nationwide menu on Jan. 24, top executives told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Coming soon to 420-plus restaurants will be grass-fed sirloin steak with no added hormones. The pork will be hormone-free, steroid-free and grain-fed. Moe’s says its chicken will be hormone-free and not raised in cages, and the tofu will be organic.
Sounds good to me. Why are they doing this?
“The Moe’s consumers have told us this is something they want,” said Paul Damico, president of the brand. “We take that information seriously. They tell us they want fresh, they want sustainable.”
Voting at the checkout counter works!

They have three locations in Valdosta:

1525 Baytree Rd.
Valdosta, GA 31602
(229) 293-0663

3145 North Ashley Street
Valdosta, GA 31602
(229) 333-0649

1500 Patterson Street
Valdosta, GA 31698
229-259-2506

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PS: And I learned that Moe’s is based in Atlanta.

Toxic corn and cotton pollute our streams

Steve Connor writes in The Independent 28 Sep 2010 that GM maize ‘has polluted rivers across the United States’:
An insecticide used in genetically modified (GM) crops grown extensively in the United States and other parts of the world has leached into the water of the surrounding environment.

The insecticide is the product of a bacterial gene inserted into GM maize and other cereal crops to protect them against insects such as the European corn borer beetle. Scientists have detected the insecticide in a significant number of streams draining the great corn belt of the American mid-West.

The researchers detected the bacterial protein in the plant detritus that was washed off the corn fields into streams up to 500 metres away. They are not yet able to determine how significant this is in terms of the risk to either human health or the wider environment.

This is the same “gene from the bacterium Bacillus thuriengensis (Bt)” used in Monsanto’s RoundUp Ready cotton and peanuts and soybeans. Since Continue reading →

Factory farming admits it needs collateral damage

Tom Philpott writes in Grist that Industrial Ag Once Again Demanding a Free Pass to Crap in Your Backyard:
Industrial ag is admitting that it needs to trash its neighbors and the surrounding landscape to thrive. And it wants us to believe that there are no alternatives.
His first example is Farm Bureau’s reaction to new EPA restraints on chicken farm factories around Chesapeake Bay, then he gets to Monsanto: Continue reading →