Stories by Kerry Trueman
Kerry Trueman is the co-founder of EatingLiberally.org. You can follow her on Twitter.
Posted on Oct 9, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Danish happiness has been attributed to their legendary income equality -- but there's more to it than that.
Posted on Aug 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet
The simple act of sitting down together to eat real food on a regular basis can jumpstart the kind of lively discussions that get people engaged on the issues of the day.
Posted on Jul 6, 2011, Source: Huffington Post
The documentary tells the story of a beloved Bronx bakery, founded by Italian immigrants in 1932, that now lies shuttered, like so many factories all over America.
Posted on Jun 24, 2011, Source: AlterNet
A new exhibit at the National Archives looks at the effects of the government's involvement in our food over the last century.
Posted on May 12, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Forget about unbalanced budgets. It's unbalanced diets we really need to worry about. The soundest economy won't save a nation of ballooning bellies and mushy muscles.
Posted on May 4, 2011, Source: AlterNet
You may despise this diabolically durable man-made material, as many of us do. But could you really live without it?
Posted on Mar 3, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Gardening newbies, seasoned seedsters and those in between will all find much to enjoy in this eloquent, witty and empowering guide from Michele Owens.
Posted on Aug 22, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Stephen Budiansky, self-proclaimed "liberal curmudgeon," needs to be taken out to the foodshed and pummeled with his own lousy logic.
Posted on Apr 30, 2010, Source: AlterNet
"You know what's really dragging our country down? The Tea Party's selfish, misanthropic mindset."
Posted on Mar 26, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The author of 'Gristle' discusses his biggest food influences, why we should stop subsidizing support factory farms and agribusiness, and why he's optimistic about the future.
Posted on Mar 26, 2010, Source: AlterNet
As Oliver attempts to bring his "food revolution" to a dietarily disastrous town in West Virginia, he garners more sneers than cheers. But here's why he may succeed.
Posted on Mar 11, 2010, Source: Green Fork Blog
Nobody wants to wallow in somebody else's waste -- or our own, for that matter. So why do we continue to use our valuable freshwater resources as a dumping ground?
Posted on Jan 13, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Will Budweiser become the brew of choice for the "Drill, Baby, Drill" crowd?
Posted on Oct 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Cheap gas and cheap chuck remain American birthrights to loopy libertarians like Beck.
Posted on Sep 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet
With the release of their movie, the family has gotten a lot of press -- some of it negative. Here's why the critics are wrong.
Posted on Aug 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet
"Just Food" is framed as the lament of a lapsed locavore who has been driven into the arms of Agribiz by food-mile militants who, according to him, number in the millions.
Posted on Aug 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
It depicts the birth of a movement that started with so much promise but ran aground on the shoals of shallow self interest and callous greed.
Posted on May 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Kunstler dishes on the collapse of our institutions, why "recovery" may never come and how to survive the fall of farming as we know it.
Posted on Mar 25, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
Now that there's a White House veggie garden, what's next? Schoolyards, retirement homes, vacant urban lots, governors' mansions ...
Posted on Jan 17, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
Get your calories from local, sustainably produced, predominantly plant-based foods instead of the fossil-fueled-fare from your standard diner.
Posted on Dec 22, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
Weighing the pros and cons of Obama's selection of GMO-lovin', bio-fuelish, feedlot-friendly Tom Vilsack for Secretary of Agriculture.
Posted on Oct 10, 2008, Source: AlterNet
We are in danger of passing an extremely dangerous tipping point, with the frightening discovery of massive deposits of sub-sea methane in the Arctic.
Posted on Aug 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The Slow Food Nation gathering promises to be a Woodstock for food lovers and enviros concerned with our food system.
Posted on Aug 18, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
Fertilizer runoff from industrial agriculture and fossil-fuel use are causing catastrophic "dead zones" in our oceans.
Posted on Aug 13, 2008, Source: Eating Liberally
A handful of Times writers seem to be intent on undoing all the strides Americans are making to live greener.
Posted on Feb 26, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
While its décor has been overhauled to inspire good health, McDonald's menu is still larded with the same old artery-clogging animal products.
Posted on Feb 14, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
We may find the idea of insects as livestock disgusting, but could a bug farm possibly be any more foul than our fetid feedlots?
