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They shut down the Pepsi machines in the University of Portland cafeteria the other day. The plastic bottles of Hunt's Ketchup disappeared. Sugar was replaced with honey from a neighborhood beekeeper. And everything else on the lunch menu, from soup (lentil) to nuts (hazel), was locally grown, baked, milked and mixed. The shrimp was harvested in nearby Netarts Bay, not in Thailand; the herbs were gathered in adjacent Clackamas County, not in California; the chicken was pastured on fields outside Eugene, not imported from the Midwest's vast factory farms. "It's awesome," said Alex Samuels, 19, a freshman...
...rediscovering the political adage that you are what you eat. And colleges are voting with their palates--and their multimillion-dollar food budgets--against an ever more global agricultural industry in which produce travels, on average, 1,500 miles from farm to plate. Posters around the University of Portland campus proclaimed that BUYING LOCAL FOOD IS ONE WAY YOU CAN HELP STOP GLOBAL WARMING ... AIR AND WATER POLLUTION. A racier consciousness-raising stunt was staged at Brown University, where activists published Ripe, a 2005 calendar featuring naked students posing with strategically positioned Rhode Island fruits and vegetables (for August, cantaloupes...
...Sept. 19] featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating facedown in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of the aftermath of Katrina, but it was shock journalism. Michael Yonker Portland, Oregon...
...Sept. 19] featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating facedown in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of the aftermath of Katrina, but it was shock journalism. Michael Yonker Portland, Oregon...
MICHAEL YONKER Portland...