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Jeremy Jacquot: To Trim Government Fat (and Fix Food Production), Look No Further than Our Bloated Farm PolicyYou don't need to be a Michael Pollan devotee to appreciate how thoroughly dysfunctional our agricultural policy is. Though rightly credited for helping usher in the modern era of cheap, plentiful food, it has since devolved into little more than a sop to big agribusiness: a bounty of wasteful su... |
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On the Topic of Sustainability and Organic FoodI mentioned Michael Pollan just recently in this blog and, coincidentally, happened to catch him on the Bill Moyers program last week. Moyers posted the hypothetical question -- what if... ... |
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Hard Ciders at Thanksgiving, So UnderratedFrom Serious Eats Photograph from Eduardo Mueses on Flickr I'm all about mixology, but even I'll admit that while there are certainly exceptions, cocktails are best suited as a pre- or post-prandial enjoyment. And while others are weighing the benefits of Thanksgiving-frie... |
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New Yorkers and Food PoliticsManhattan Borough President Stringer telling it like it is photo via the Observer I was surprised the other morning when Brian Lehrer, on his eponymous WNYC radio show, stated that he had received 600 comments suggesting Michael Pollan as President-elect Obama’s Secretary of Agricultu... |
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Kerry Trueman: Has Palin Been Pallin' Around With PETA?Looks like plucky Sarah Palin is expanding her fan club from evangelicals to vegangelicals. Seriously, how could any animal rights activist not love the sight of Palin blathering to the press while a worker in blood-spattered overalls blithely slaughters turkeys a few feet away? The media deem... |
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Image of the Day: Food Security in JapanIf you haven't yet seen this video from the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), you're missing out. One of the cooler PSAs I've ever seen, it offers an entertaining animated rundown of food security, though the concept is never mentioned in so many words (at le... |
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