Thursday Brunch: Rare Bacon

by Natasha Chart · 2009-05-21 05:26:00 UTC
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Spinach, eggs, bacon; by inuyakiRaiding the internet fridge for your intellectual delectation ...

- @tracingpaper Of 649 known pig breeds, 151 are extinct, 58 critical, 106 endangered: Atlas of Food again http://tr.im/lKbK Eat rare pigs http://tr.im/lY14

- How to farm in all climates and build a solar box cooker.

- ConAgra and Sara Lee <3 sustainability, too! Ahem.

- The Green Revolution has failed Africa.

- The climate change map you have to see, particularly because it's going to be twice as bad as was thought 2 years ago.

- India's great hopes for jatropha may have been overblown. It's the same problem as genetically modified crops engineered with drought resistance: maybe they *can* grow in areas where the soil is poor or there isn't much water and fertilizer, but they don't yield enough to make it worthwhile to bother.

(Photo credit: inuyaki on Flickr.)

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