en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent Food & Farms headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 Canada will stage a judicial inquiry into the collapse of sockeye salmon runs on the Fraser River, which have been in a two-decade decline and hit a 50-year low in summer 2009. It has prompted concerns that sockeye are heading for a population failure on the scale of the collapse of Atlantic cod. http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Ottawa+plans+inquiry+into+disappearance+sockeye/2188687/story.html Environment Food & Farms Salmon Water British Columbia 11/06/2009 Vancouver Sun Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee pushed through a climate bill on Thursday without any debate or participation by Republicans. The move suggests that President Obama and bill supporters will have serious problems assembling the votes needed to enact it when it comes to the Senate floor, probably not before next year. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/us/politics/06climate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Cap and Trade Climate Energy Environment Food & Farms Policy Pollution & Toxics United States 11/05/2009 New York Times For decades, California's water wars have flared unabated - cities versus farms, north against south - while half measures left the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta drained and decimated. A solution involving all sides was only a dream. Until now. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/06/EDP51AF923.DTL&feed=rss.opinion Environment Food & Farms Water Wildlife California 11/06/2009 San Francisco Chronicle The first cradle-to-grave analysis of the environmental impact of salmon farms has found that in some ways they're less harmful than, say, raising beef cattle -- but that there is plenty of room for improvement. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18110-salmons-ecological-finprint-measured.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news Food & Farms Salmon British Columbia 11/04/2009 New Scientist Vegetarianism used to be simple -- its protagonists foreswore the flesh of any dead animal. Today there are "veggies" who eat fish, and people who eat no meat but don't call themselves vegetarians. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8341002.stm Food & Farms 11/05/2009 BBC News Portlander Berlin Reed used to be a militant vegan, until a series of off-restaurant jobs left him working behind a sustainably run butchery counter. "There was pretty much no argument against it. I knew exactly where the animals came from and how they lived. So I took a nice bite of rib eye at work and was like, 'I'm sold.'" http://www.willametteweek.com/editorial/3552/13275/ Environment Food & Farms Sustainable Living Oregon 11/04/2009 Willamette Week Riding a late-breaking wave of liberal support, Dow Constantine - a pro-abortion-rights, pro-labor, pro-transit Democrat - handily defeated Susan Hutchison on Tuesday in a rancorous race for King County executive. Now he has to clean up the county's budget, which is projected to face a $110 million shortfall over the next two years. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010196404_elexkingexec04m.html Economy Environment Food & Farms Human Health Pollution & Toxics Salmon Sprawl & Transportation Washington 11/04/2009 Seattle Times According to the latest UN population projections, the next 40 years will see an almost doubling of urban populations. This growth will offer both unprecedented challenges and great opportunities to cities around the world. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=c9023686-bb53-4fd6-869e-9aa20fd01d87&k=4539 Climate Economy Environment Food & Farms Solutions Sprawl & Transportation Sustainable Living Water British Columbia US Northwest United States 11/04/2009 Vancouver Sun The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council claimed a legal victory Tuesday after the BC Supreme Court affirmed the right of aboriginals to sell the seafood they harvest. The court gave the aboriginal people of the west coast of Vancouver Island the right to harvest and sell fish and other seafood in their territory, although the right is not unrestricted. http://www.vancouversun.com/natives+claim+victory+court+ruling+commercial+fisheries/2179770/story.html Environment Food & Farms Salmon Water Wildlife British Columbia 11/03/2009 Vancouver Sun