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.
R.J. Ruppenthal, Chelsea Green Publishing. October 23, 2009. What if each of us could produce just 10 percent of our own food at home? What a huge difference that would make.
Lester R. Brown, Climate Progress. October 14, 2009. The world renown environmentalist writes about his new book and lays out the devastating impacts unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases will have on food and water.
Paula Crossfield, Civil Eats. October 8, 2009. Rachel Maddow continues her work pulling back the layers of American politics to expose underhanded and manipulative lobbying tactics to the public.
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.
Sarah Irani, EcoSalon. October 3, 2009. Some tout soy products as a panacea for health and wellness, while others swear that soy is a sure ticket to infertility and "man boobs." What are the facts?
Timothy LaSalle, AlterNet. September 29, 2009. There's no honest assessment of the limits of dead-end chemical agriculture in playing a leading role in actually feeding people.
Vanessa Barrington, EcoSalon. September 23, 2009. If you think buying organic, locally-raised food from the farmers' market means that the workers who harvested your food were treated fairly, it’s not necessarily a given.
Sandor Ellix Katz, Chelsea Green Publishing. September 16, 2009. "Everything I see, hear, or read about standard commercial factory farming and slaughtering fills me with disgust," writes Katz, who explores why people choose vegetarianism.
Dan Barber, The Nation. September 14, 2009. A lack of technique behind the stove is, in the end, as complicit in harming human health and the environment as the confinement pig or the corn-fed steer.
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.
Jaymi Heimbuch, TreeHugger. September 9, 2009. After months of drought, spring crops are failing and food may need to be imported, causing costs to rise.
Katha Pollitt, The Nation. September 7, 2009. Julie & Julia is that very rare movie about women's struggle to express their gifts through work. Not a boyfriend, a fabulous wedding, a baby or escape from a serial killer.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. September 5, 2009. As money has gotten tight and the local-foods movement more popular, urban foraging has become a hit. I spent a day with one forager in San Francisco.
