>> Ethical pescatarians: Send your best sustainable seafood recipe to Food & Water Watch’s “Get Cookin’” contest for a chance to win $250 — or a Food & Water Watch aprons. Deadline: Oct. 6.

>> The Omnivore’s Hundred’s been making its round in the blogosphere. I’ve tried 63 on the list (I wasn’t always a lactose-intolerant pescatarian).

>> There’s a Vegan’s 100 too, though most of the list makes me wonder why the hell would I want things like vegan caviar? I encourage someone to create a version of The Vegan’s 100 that does NOT include anything that’s a sad imitation of the less-vegan original. (via BlogHer)

>> A recap of Slow Food Nation in Grist: “Especially moving was a performance by peach farmer David Masumoto and his daughter Nikiko of a poem about a hailstorm that wiped out an entire harvest accompanied by the traditional Teiko Japanese drum. Some in the audience wept as they heard the thunder and felt the hail rip the flesh of the peaches.” The article’s capped with a tasty recipe for Tomato Pesto.

>> Edible social activism, sort of: The US gets its first Fair Trade University! The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s four governing bodies endorsed a resolution outlining its commitment to sell fair trade products and encourage their purchase by students, faculty and staff.

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