Michael Pollan showed up on the Colbert Report last night to promote the release of “In Defense of Food” in paperback. The message was the same as before: eat food, not too much, mostly plants – but with an amusing Colbert twist. See the clip below.
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The marketing world has gone crazy for local food. In an attempt to glom on to the local movement, companies like Frito-Lay (a brand owned by PepsiCo) are defining the term in the loosest way possible (see the article we are quoted in Tuesday from USA Today). What defines local food anyway? Is it produced [...]
This post comes from Marjorie Taylor, the proprietor of The Cook’s Atelier . She cooks and writes about food from her tiny home in Burgundy, France. See more of her writing on her blog, www.thecooksatelier.com.
There is something very therapeutic to me about digging in the dirt. I have always enjoyed gardening and have big aspirations [...]
I received an email from a concerned citizen of Poland the other day inquiring if there were hog farms in his country like the ones he had seen on TV in Mexico. I guaranteed him that there were indeed such factory farms in Eastern Europe, and that they were doing terrible damage to the environment, [...]
From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Kids today grow up amidst a welter of junk food ads and calorie crazy fast-food joints. The numbers are startling: nearly one-fifth of our nation’s 4-year olds are obese. 17.6% of children aged 12-19 are obese, triple the figure in 1980. And the percentages are even higher where fast food [...]
Last week, we talked about how to find local sustainable food. This week we’re going to look at the realities of eating sustainably when you have a busy life and not a lot of time.
We all have crazy, hectic lives. We rush from one thing to another – to work, picking up children, running errands, [...]
We attended the Brooklyn Food Conference on Saturday May 2nd in Brooklyn, NY along with approximately 3000 other people interested in food issues. We staffed a table at the event where we had an opportunity to talk about all of our programs – Sustainable Table, The Meatrix, Eat Well Guide and Meatless Monday. By the [...]
If you find yourself out in beautiful Telluride, CO on May 22nd to the 25th, be sure to check out Mountainfilm; their topic this year is food, sustainability and feeding the growing population. In fact, the event alone might be enough to make you plan a trip! Mountainfilm is a festival that was created to [...]
From our friends at Food and Water Watch…
Do you know what’s in your shopping cart? Although this may seem like a simple question, there’s more to the apples, cucumbers, peas and other fruits and vegetables you buy than meets the eye. Many Americans don’t know that they are consuming more imported fresh fruits and vegetables, [...]
H.R. 875, a federal bill proposed to reform the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has been causing quite a stir in the sustainable/organic food movement of late. The bill, proposed by Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), has been maligned by some and championed by others. Having read it myself and not being used to congressional jargon, it [...]
