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Organic adherents take it on faith that the way food is grown affects its nutritional quality. But advocates of local eating are now making another leap, saying what happens after harvest--how food is shipped and handled--is perhaps even more important than how it was grown. Locavores.com a site popular among local purists, asserts that "because locally grown produce is freshest, it is more nutritionally complete." But Mitchell says she knows of no studies that prove this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Better Than Organic | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

Dickman says he was inspired by chef Ann Cooper, whose 2000 book, Bitter Harvest, is well described by its subtitle: A Chef's Perspective on the Hidden Dangers in the Foods We Eat and What You Can Do About It. Cooper, who now runs the acclaimed meal program of the Berkeley, Calif., public schools, writes passionately against industrialized farms that "inhabit a flattened landscape dotted not with trees, farmhouses [and] animals ... but with huge motorized vehicles." After meeting her, Dickman began to go to farmers' markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Better Than Organic | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...planted lemon and lime trees just outside to ensure local citrus. The restaurant grows many of its own herbs and makes its own ketchup. And last fall Café 150 jarred tomatoes and fruit so that even though it's March, Googlers can get a taste of the local harvest every day. Imagine that: a company as ostentatiously hip as Google canning fruit in its kitchens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Better Than Organic | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...accused of overhyping what it got in Beijing. This was not a comprehensive solution that could bring about a nuclear-free Korean peninsula-a goal that, Bush aides say, the President has eagerly sought. But it was, Washington insists, an important first step toward that goal-"an early harvest," as U.S. negotiators like to call it. "Little plants come up," Hill says, "and you harvest those immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Takes the Bait | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...suffering from a bad case of myopia. A 2005 Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Poll found that, in countries such as Britain, Germany, Spain, France, and Russia, China is viewed far more favorably than the United States. One can only conclude that a giant 4th of July organ harvest might do the trick in winning these nations’ approval...

Author: By Michael Segal | Title: The Myth of Morality | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

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