{"id":76318,"date":"2022-07-26T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T10:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.asianetpakistan.com\/?p=95525"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T10:12:03","slug":"now-on-store-shelves-breakthrough-journal-releases-2022-summer-issue-produce-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/now-on-store-shelves-breakthrough-journal-releases-2022-summer-issue-produce-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Now on Store Shelves: Breakthrough Journal Releases 2022 Summer Issue \u201cProduce Problems\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
Berkeley, Calif., July 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The new issue of the<\/em> Breakthrough Journal, \u201cProduce Problems,\u201d challenges the misleadingly simple concept of \u201cfarm to table\u201d by exploring the environmental impacts of the complex, and sometimes murky, supply chains that a<\/em>ctually<\/em> bring food from where it is grown to our mouths.<\/p>\n The Breakthrough Journal <\/em>is the Breakthrough Institute<\/a>‘s quarterly magazine delivering pragmatic opinion and analysis grounded in the belief that even our most wicked environmental problems have technological solutions.<\/p>\n Now on shelves in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.<\/strong> Click here for the online edition.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This issue includes ten essays and one movie review. Authors include:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A sneak peek at this issue\u2019s incisive commentary:<\/strong><\/p>\n This issue starts in the backyard: Washington Pos<\/em>t<\/em> columnist Tamar Haspel\u2019s. In \u201cPlants Everlasting<\/a>,\u201d she shows how growing your own garden can even be ripe with dilemmas: pursue supposedly sound permaculture with perennials and end up with basically nothing you want to eat, or plant annuals and then prepare to arm yourself with pesticides.<\/p>\n If you do opt for pesticides, you certainly won\u2019t win any organic certifications. But maybe that doesn\u2019t matter, write authors Linus Blomqvist, Breakthrough\u2019s Dan Blaustein-Rejto, and Dave Douglas in \u201cMeasuring What Matters<\/a>.\u201d Such labels measure practices rather than outcomes and, in doing so, miss the metrics that matter most. What\u2019s more, they create opportunities for fraud, points out Breakthrough\u2019s Alex Smith. To consumers, an avocado looks like an avocado no matter how it is farmed. But call it organic, and you can charge twice as much. Not surprisingly, hucksters have caught on, Smith writes in \u201cFraudulent Foods<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n You may also be paying a premium for alternative meat, not only for its environmental benefits but also in the hope that its production is better for workers. In that respect, reports journalist Jenny Splitter in \u201cOut of The Jungle<\/em><\/a>,\u201d it can be a tool for a just environmental transition for animals and people alike. But it is no silver bullet. Meanwhile, alternative proteins, points out Harvard\u2019s Robert Paarlberg in \u201cIt\u2019s What\u2019s for Dinner<\/a>,\u201d won\u2019t replace animal meat any time soon. Until then, there\u2019s plenty we can do to make livestock lives better. Almost none of it involves the kinds of things many environmentalists imagine.<\/p>\n Complications to the farm-to-table story don\u2019t stop once produce moves off the farm or feedlot. Politics, geopolitics, and trade systems also matter. In \u201cFood Has a Shipping Problem<\/a>,\u201d AEI\u2019s Elisabeth Braw writes about the logistical problems stemming from Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine. And Breakthrough\u2019s Saloni Shah walks through the cascading disaster that has followed Sri Lanka\u2019s decision to ban chemical fertilizers, which comes just as many states in India are attempting to do something similar. Both cases, she argues in \u201cThe High Costs of Organic Farming<\/a>,\u201d reveal that such practices are no blueprint for pulling smallholder farmers out of poverty\u2014or for making food systems more sustainable.<\/p>\n
\nLook for it at Barnes & Noble and other magazine retailers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n