Sustainable Dish

The New York Time’s Frank Bruni goes from restaurant critic to weight and obesity anthropologist in this piece on parenting and food.

The Nation just came out with a “Food For All” issue and there’s so much great stuff I can’t sum it all up here. Instead, I’ll just point you in the right direction and you can explore for yourself – Dave Murphy, Raj Patel, Alice Waters…

Professor, HuffPo contributor and all around environmentalist Simran Sethi is very disappointed in SIGG. Her beloved water bottle, which she has promoted on numerous talk shows including Oprah and the Today Show, turns out to contain BPA!

You may remember a piece a while back entitled “The Omnivores Delusion“, I think the title is pretty self explanatory. There have been many responses to the piece, but this rebuttal on Change.org by Greg Plotkin was especially poignant and balanced.

New York City has introduced a new anti-soda campaign starring what else? Human Fat! See coverage in the NYTimes as well as Grist.

So apparently, French fries and potato chips may be toxic, much to my dismay. Marion Nestle blogs about Canada’s addition of the substance Acrylamide to its list of known toxins. Acrylamide is a carcinogen which is created when carbohydrates and proteins are cooked together at high temperatures.

Many of us make a conscious decision to eat sustainably raised and organic eggs, but the fact is, the chickens that hatched those eggs were born in the same sad place as those who hatch conventional eggs – many males are culled in the process as well. Read more at change.org.