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Send me a subscription: Name: Address: City: State: Zip: Email: O Payment enclosed ($18 for each sub payable to Clamor) O Please charge my credit card Visa/Mastercard (circle one) card # exp. date Send $18 ($25 outside of the US) payable to Clamor, PC Box 1225, Bowling Green, OH 43402 Email [email protected] with any questions. Rj EDITORS • your editors Jen Angel Jason Kucsma rom CONSULTING EDITOR Joshua Breitbart 'lease rest assured that we have not gone forward with our FOOD issue during a time of war in an effort to carry on and to show "them" (terrorists? Iraqis? Saddam Hus- PROOFREADERS sein?) that they can't keep us Americans down. The opinion that Americans should try Hal Hixson, Catherine Komp, Scott Puckett, to lead normal lives while a whole bunch of people on the other side of the world are Christine Wong, Gabby Resch, Kristen dying (including American soldiers sent by our government), is just ludicrous. Schmidt We have gone fonward with our regular issue first because we think it is important to IAYOUT& DESIGN examine what we eat. Also, because we believe that there are far better places to get Jason Kucsma up-to-the-minute war coverage than in a bi-monthly magazine published in the United INTERN States. For example, this issue was put together while consuming mass quantities Katrice Mines of news from indymedia.org, daily supplements of Amy Goodman's radio program Democracy Now!, hours and hours of BBC Worid News Service, and snacking on COVER: countless forwards of articles critical of the war that have ended up in our email inbox. Kate Duncan A steady diet of alternative and worid news will do your body and mind good when trying to make some sense of this insanity. We're not guaranteeing that you'll go any GUEST DESIGNER less crazy trying to figure out why innocent people are dying during an illegal, unjusti- Eulan Atl<inson (pp. 34-36) fied war, but at least you'll know you're among the worid majority who knows this war is about something more than "liberation" or "national security." ADVERTISING Rates and deadlines available upon Speaking of misdirected energies and resources, we'd like to suggest that you visit our request. Please call 419-353-7035 or visit site at www.clamormagazine.org/warbuys.html to find out what President Bush's www.clamormagazine.org/advertising.pdf web $75 billion war package can buy. Yep, that's $75,000,000,000.00. Habitat for Humanity PRINTING: could use that money to build 1 ,875,000 homes in the United States — yeah, almost Westcan Printing Group, 2 million homes. They could build 20 times as many homes in India with that money. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada How about paying a year's worth of grocery bills for 14.5 million American families? P: 866-669-9914 Visit the site to find out some other ways to spend the money we are using to kill a lot of people, and perhaps suggest your own equivalents. WEB DESIGN: Derek Hogue But what about the food? As you'll note on the table of contents, there are very few ar- ticles here that aren't related to food in some sense. We were inundated with articles CLAMOR is a bi-monthly magazine. Single for this epicurean issue. It seemed like everyone had something to say about the stuff copies are $4 ppd and 6 issue subscriptions we put in our pie-holes. What we end up with is an issue — not unlike other issues are $18 ppd in the US (Outside of the of Clamor— that takes a theme, tosses out the cliche articles that usually appear on US single issues are $6 and a 6-issue the subject, and pieces together a mosaic of art and words that represent the diverse subscription is $25 in US Funds). Checks may be made payable to Become The Media. ways food plays out in our daily lives. We hope you enjoy every morsel or at least savor the dishes that appeal to you most. Dig in. BACK ISSUES: are available for the standard single copy Thanks for reading! rate. Visit www.clamormagazine.org for more info. -e^ofM-^ DISTRIBUTION: , /Wk CLAMOR is distributed to stores and r distributors by Big Top Newsstand Services, 2729 Mission Street Suite 201, San Francisco, CA 94110-3131 [email protected] PS: Please see page 7 for information about how you can participate in our upcoming CLAMOR is also available through these issues! 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We publish writing and art that exemplify the value we place on autonomy, creativity, exploration, and cooperation. is an advocate of progressive social change through Postmaster; Send address changes to Clamor Magazine CLAMOR PO Box 1225. Bowling Green. OH 43402 active creation of political and cultural altematives. CLAMOR: A Loud and Continued Uproar of Many Human Voices • NumoefW» May/June ECONOMICS POLITICS 9 Who's Paying for Your Fix? 34 Eye on the Street Fair trade coffee World unites for peace Kate Duncan Joshua Breitbart, Michael Burke and NYC IMC 12 Future Food or Evil Spore? 37 The Politics of Food Quorn foods Rainbow Cooperative Grocery and Palestine/Israeli conflict Gavin Grant Neela Banerjee 14 Hip To Eat Beef 38 The Tyranny of Consensus Beef industry targets young women Examining consensus decision-making Matt Dineen M. Treloar 16 ... But 1 thought we had a deal?!? 41 Oppressive Vegans Vietnam catfishing and the WTO Joe Diffie IVIichael Karadjis ^EDIA CULTURE j 44 Politics Never Sounded So Good: Sarah Jones 20 Coming Down on the Farm Interview by Tizzy Asher IVIonsanto still targeting farmers 48 More than a Target Market Sarah Bantz Active youth 24 Young Impressions CarlyStasko Black women and body image Katrice Mines SEX & GENDER 26 Knowledge of Life 50 Re-Sexing the Cherry Attempting Ayurvedic living Kimberly Nichols Charlotte Druckman 28 In Search of Food, Home, and Community PEOPLE Foraging for a sense of place 56 No More Junk, Eat Healthy! Jason Gillis Lemieux Halal Restaurant owner Shameem Chowdhury 30 Mmm ... Arepas Courtney Martin Sarah Town 58 In Food We Trust Philly's Food Trust Greg Fuchs REVIEWS, 60 Hello, My Name is 1 Hate You ... 22 Sounds Harry Seitz 29 Friends Forever 62 Finding Happiness in Food 40 Print Robert Biswas-Diener 47 Text Tools 66 Minimum Security on Food 49 Mhced Sounds Stephanie McMillan 59 Women on Video 63 Lumumba and Disinfo Please address letters to [email protected] or write us at PO Box 1225 Bowling Green, OH 43402 Letters may be edited for length. I Not all letters received will be printed. Constructive Criticism of the The first is JT Yost's illustration for Minor League magazine in this direction, and free up some of our time Sports Issue University. Even though Clamor is all about autonomy to do the same. But that's hard when we can only pay do you really want to be a publisher behind that kind of very little. illustration? Why is the basketball player black? I'm as- First, I should say that every time I get an issue of suming he's black since he has an afro.