Ruben Anderson, The Tyee. July 17, 2008. Composting is key to reducing waste costs, cutting global warming emissions, and increasing urban food security.
Gavan McCormack, Foreign Policy in Focus. July 15, 2008. "Through the prism of beef, South Koreans confront the limitations of key contemporary institutions: democracy, capitalism, and nationalism."
Kate Cheney Davidson, Yale Environment 360. July 8, 2008. Michael Pollan talks about biofuels and the food crisis, the glories of grass-fed beef, and how environmentalists should think about sustainability.
Stan Cox, AlterNet. June 23, 2008. The corporate agriculture industry would like nothing better than to see us spend all of our free time in our gardens and not in political dissent.
Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch. June 13, 2008. Lab animals fed irradiated food have developed illnesses from cancer to immune system failure. So why is the government pushing the same food on you?
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. June 12, 2008. Fair trade might now be necessary not only as a means of redistributing income, but also to feed the world.
Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. June 9, 2008. In the discussion of the global food emergency, one underlying factor is barely mentioned: The world is running out of freshwater.
Will Allen, AlterNet. June 6, 2008. The question about the real price of food should be rephrased: Is it worth sending cheap, poisonous food to the starving masses?
Raj Patel, Melville House Publishing. June 2, 2008. Hunger and obesity stem from the same problem -- the corporations that sell our food determine what we eat and how we think about food.
Stan Cox, Pluto Press. May 28, 2008. Our obsession with dieting, including the low-carb Atkins fad, may be good for our economy but it's a nightmare for the environment and our health.
Katherine Ozer, AlterNet. May 21, 2008. The Bush Administration is virtually silent on the real bad actors contributing to our broken industrial food system.
Irene Rubaum-Keller, Huffington Post. May 18, 2008. We all come with internal "full" meters. But many Americans have been conditioned to ignore theirs.
Maria Armoudian, Ankine Aghassian, AlterNet. May 15, 2008. The world-renowned activist reminds people that corporation-friendly economic schemes got us into this mess in the first place.
Mira Kamdar, OneWorld.net. May 15, 2008. At the heart of the story is pesticide poisoning, water shortages, soil salinity, fertilizer runoff, skyrocketing cancer rates and farmer suicides.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. May 15, 2008. As both obesity and hunger are on the rise, a new book shows why we shouldn't feel guilty about our food choices but angry with a corrupt food system.
Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. May 14, 2008. Why the recent food and water shortages are making the climate crisis even worse.
Ann Vileisis, Island Press. May 14, 2008. A new book explores how we got into the modern situation where we know so little about what we eat and yet regard it as entirely normal.
Claire Hope Cummings, Beacon Press. May 2, 2008. Taking a technological approach to agriculture has put the future of the world's food supply in jeopardy.
BoRev, BoRev AlterNet: PEEK. May 1, 2008. Castro and Chavez were right, the Hertitage Foundation was wrong. Ethanol is having a negative impact on world food supply.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. April 30, 2008. In the wake of the housing crash and rising food and energy prices, Americans are pawning their clothes, furniture and more.
