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Tyler Cowen links to a comment on the FT Economists’ Forum by author Paul Collier on rising food prices and the political problems that prevent us from addressing them effectively. Collier’s argument is that we’re failing largely due to resistance to industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops.

First, here’s why food is getting more expensive:

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gourmet.com: Betting the Farm. Great article on agriculture policy and how one family farm in South Dakota is bucking the trend of cashing in on ethanol money and government subsidies. Rogers Cadenhead: Washington Post Wins Another Phony Pulitzer. I loved the Washington Post article about the violinist planted in the DC subway, but Rogers argues that [...]

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Daring Fireball: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3. The main sense I get from this review is that I could be getting more out of my Mac. Jason Kottke: Getting into Momofuku Ko. How this small but incredibly popular New York restaurant handles reservations using a Web application. It sounds like the basic model works like Ticketmaster.

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Nicholson Baker talks about The Charms of Wikipedia in the The New York Review of Books. Great weekend read. There are times when I think that the purpose of all human society up to this point was to enable the creation of Wikipedia. (I agree strongly with Baker’s inclusionist philosophy.) The chef at local restaurant Piedmont [...]

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In food as in everything, there are few simple answers. Everybody wants some heuristics to help them determine what’s good and in the food world, people look for terms like “organic” or “artisinal” or “local” and generally assume them to be shorthand for, “The person who produced this really cared about how it tastes.”

Heath at [...]

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The horrible animal abuse video that I linked to has resulted in the largest beef recall in US history. If you read Fast Food Nation, you won’t be surprised to learn that a large portion of the recalled meat was sold to the government for use in school cafeterias. That’s the most common destination for [...]

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I don’t think I can eat meat that any more if I don’t know its source, and maybe you won’t be able to either after watching the video in this blog post. It’s hard to verbalize my anger and disgust after watching it, and the same sorts of things are happening all over the place.

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