Bonnie Azab Powell

Bonnie Azab Powell is the founder and editor of Ethicurean.com, a 3-year-old group blog about food politics that has been cited by the New York Times, SFGate, the LA Times, and others. A former technology and business reporter, she now writes about food and farming for publications such as Mother Jones, the Washington Post, Edible San Francisco, Sierra, San Francisco Chronicle, Meatpaper, Culture, Gastronomica, and elsewhere, and is currently working on a proposal for a Meatless Mondays book on behalf of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. After being a vegetarian for 13 years, Bonnie began seeking out meat raised by small, sustainable local farms in 2005. Her personal interest in knowing where her meat came from led her to found the Bay Area Meat  Community-Supported Agriculture program (BAMCSA), which Slow Food Berkeley later took over and which has evolved into an online community for those interested in buying and divvying up whole animals, Meatshare.org. Somehow not having learned her lesson from the difficulties BAMCSA posed, Bonnie is now the volunteer manager of CSAs for Clark Summit Farm in Tomales, CA, and Soul Food Farm in Vacaville, CA. She lives in North Oakland, where she is impatiently waiting for her late-planted tomatoes to ripen and pondering raising rabbits for meat.