AlterNetNovember 9, 2009. Pollan took on Big Ag and cheap food in a panel discussion, after the protests of a meat industry chairman led to his speech at a University being canceled.
Twilight Greenaway, Culinate. October 7, 2009. Dumpster diving for her hungry pigs is only one of the many hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking adventures Novella Carpenter experienced in taking urban farming to a new level.
Michael Pollan, The Nation. September 10, 2009. Wendell Berry's now-famous formulation, "eating is an agricultural act" -- is perhaps his signal contribution to the rethinking of food and farming under way today.
Beau Friedlander, Air America Media AlterNet: PEEK. June 26, 2009. While the bill is weak medicine for a very sick planet, it’s a whole lot better than taking the poor orb behind the Milky Way and shooting it.
Frances Moore Lappe, Huffington Post. August 18, 2008. Morning Edition's recent series on the food crisis reinforces dangerous myths that actually block us from seeing the real solutions to hunger.
George Naylor, Irene Lin, AlterNet. August 7, 2008. Ethanol critics need to be wary before they jump aboard the anti-ethanol campaigns and let off the hook the real bad actors behind our food crisis.
Katherine Ozer, AlterNet. May 21, 2008. The Bush Administration is virtually silent on the real bad actors contributing to our broken industrial food system.
Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor. April 17, 2008. As the deadline looms, lawmakers make a last-ditch effort to resolve funding and policy disputes.
Peter Ford, Christian Science Monitor. January 7, 2008. Corn, milk, bread, and other farm products hit record high prices in 2006 and will likely keep rising in 2008.
Jason Mark, AlterNet. January 25, 2007. A new federal program for livestock tracking will benefit big corporations, threaten small producers and do nothing to protect consumer health.
Debra Eschmeyer, National Family Farm Coalition. December 5, 2006. When the food industry becomes a monopoly marketplace, it doesn't just affect the local farmer. It affects you. Lack of competition drives prices up and consumer choices down.
