Jeremy Cherfas

@theRSAorg I am so disappointed that beyond lip service in the intro there was absolutely no further mention of trade in global food commodities. Even a brief acknowledgement of Brewster Kneen’s pioneering efforts to shine a light on Cargill would have added immeasurably.

Good morning. pesos

@GeoffTansey Thanks for the link to the UNCTAD report on cashews. I’ve not yet read it, but I wonder whether it details the World Bank’s role in destroying Mozambique’s cashew processing industry?

I did an episode about this a while back www.eatthispodcast.com/cashews/

A really great piece that I will bookmark as a good place to send people who ask the question Why Blog?

Because, as Marc Weidenbaum answers, Blogs Are Great.

USDA says there were about 2,019,000 farms in the US in 2020. But how many were actually farms in the usual sense of the word, growing food for sale as their primary business. I’m sure @rosenblawg said something about this recently, but I can’t now find it. Help, please.

(Not much) patience rewarded. pesos

Star of this mess is not the tofu, the zucchini or the peanuts but the rice. There is a variety called Baldo that I only ever see unpolished and that is the bedrock of this and so many other meals. Nutty, chewy, filling, nutritious. Never without it for emergencies. pesos

“Scotland is a colossus in native breeds.”

That’s all you really need to know, but if you want to read about the “six big asks” (yuck) it is all here www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/1921…

Can’t enough of this kind of thing.[M]any experts consider the pallet to be the most important materials-handling innovation of the twentieth century. Studies have estimated that pallets consume 12 to 15 percent of all lumber produced in the US, more than any other industry except home construction.

On the way to a coffee. pesos