Sustainable Dish

Ever wonder why that pork chop is so cheap or why shrimp is on everyone’s menu in town? Ezra Klein writing for the WaPo suggests that you question the cheap prices and rampant availability of certain “farmed” foods.

What do small farms, Subway, and smelly feet have in common? Slow Food prez Josh Viertel answers these questions in an article for The Atlantic.

To summarize the recent NYTimes article on school food, I’ll pull a quote from Renegade Lunch lady Ann Cooper, “All of a sudden I am not the fringe idiot trying to get everyone to serve peas and carrots that don’t come out of a can, like that’s the most radical idea they have ever heard of”.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey made quite a stir with a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the proposed health care plan blasting a public health care option. Zachary Adam Cohen of Farm to Table and Jill Richardson of La Vida Locavore both chimed  in with some poignant commentary.

If you’ve been following the news on our decaying food system for a while, then nothing that this Time Magazine article says will be particularly new to you. It is however fantastic that such a mainstream magazine is covering the topic of food sustainability – it has awesome slide shows too!

Obesity has become a national epidemic, and the solution to this crisis has been hotly debated. Whose responsibility is it – personal, societal, governmental? How do we solve it – soda tax, higher health care costs, child nutrition? The NYTimes “weighs” in.

There has been lots of talk in the last year or so on all things food: industrial, conventional, organic, sustainable – lots of attacks, lots of defense. Vanessa Barrington of EcoSalon thinks it means sustainable food is winning!