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Among a sea of burger joints and pizza parlors, Clover, a restaurant focused on local, vegetarian and mainly organic food, will soon be opening at 7 Holyoke Street...
Currently running out of a food truck at MIT, Clover serves vegetarian food ranging from chickpea fritters to freshly made popovers to French fries, the “gateway drug” for new patrons. The truck is decorated by a dry erase board that changes with the company’s seasonal menu; it provides hot soups in the winter, and salads and seasonal fruits in the summer...
...Muir, the CEO of Clover Fast Food Inc. and a 2000 college graduate of MIT, said that the truck began in September 2008 as a test-run for the menu Muir planned on using in his future restaurant. However, when he shut the truck down after the test-run period of a mere six weeks, Muir’s customers were so vocal in their disappointment that the truck re-opened in March 2009. The time in-between allowed Muir to reorganize for the overwhelming number of customers the truck receives...
That might be true. But the U.N.'s findings show how daunting a task it is for Afghan and NATO officials to persuade thousands of farmers to switch from growing drugs to growing food. Farmers can earn about three times as much money growing cannabis as growing wheat: about $3,900 per hectare, compared with $1,200 per hectare. What's more, cannabis is even more lucrative to grow than opium poppies, which yield about $3,600 per hectare. It's also far cheaper to grow cannabis than poppies, requiring little sophisticated cultivation. The report says it is an almost...
Dempsey believes farmers could be better persuaded to give up growing opium and cannabis if Western and Afghan officials introduced big incentives and subsidies for growing food crops and helped farmers sell them. One crucial problem, he says, is that the roads in southern Afghanistan are too dangerous for farmers to drive their crops to local markets. Groups of armed drug traffickers, meanwhile, travel through the countryside, buying opium and cannabis at the farm gates for cash. For many farmers in the area, making a living and staying alive - sadly - go hand in hand...