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Michael Pollan: "World's 7 Most Powerful Foodies"

Alex Formuzis | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Secret Farm Bill, Michael Pollan, Organic Food, Foodies, Food Inc., Food Politics, Food, Video, Food News

Famed food writer/philosopher Michael Pollan has picked the seven individuals he considers to be the most powerful voices in the good food movement from around the world.

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Feeding Our Families and Our Farmers

Mike Callicrate | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Epa, Karl Brooks, Manure, Mike Callicrate, Food Inc., Industrial Food, U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, Family Farmers, Usfra, Callicrate Cattle Co, Ranchers, Monsanto, Round Up, Food News

In the last 30 years, 90 percent of our pork producers, more than 80 percent of our dairymen, and more than 40 percent of our ranchers have been driven out of business. Is this what we want?

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New Documentary Tries To Argue For Sustainability Without Polemics

Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: American Meat Movie, Meat Documentary, Food Movies, American Meat, Food Inc., Sustainable Food, Fast Food Nation, Sustainable Agriculture, American Meat Documentary, Food News

American Meat is by no means the first movie to make a case for sustainable husbandry. 2006's fictional adaptation of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Natio...

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WATCH: The Best Food In America

Daniel Klein | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Foodie Travel, Michael Pollan, Sea Urchin, Local Food, Perennial Plate, Sustainability, Daniel Klein, Food Inc, Morels, Recipe, Organic Farms, Wild Food, Food News

Diving for sea urchin, urban gardens in New Orleans, catfish noodling, frog gigging, conspiracy theorists, geoducks and morel hunting are just a few o...

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The Future Of Food Guides?

Chris Elam | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Food System, Fast Food Nation, Food Warrior Summer Internship Program, Zingerman?S, Food Inc., Sun Fed Beef, Restaurant Guide, Alex Young, Food Guide, Darcy's Cart, Real Time Farms, Food News

What if there was a place where you could learn about the exact foods you were eating -- in real time -- whether you were at your family dinner table, in a favorite restaurant, or even alongside a food truck?

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Food, Inc.: From Screen To Social Action

The Daily Meal | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Food Films, Tribeca Film Festival, Food Inc Film, Robert Kenner, The Future of Film Blog, Food Activism, Food Inc., Social Activism, Food News

Over the course of my career I have made films about a broad range of subjects, immersing myself in each while making the film. It was not until Food,...

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Eric Schlosser: Why Being A Foodie Isn't Elitist

Eric Schlosser in the Washington Post | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: American Farm Bureau, Michael Pollan, Food Inc., Foodie Backlash, Food Elitists, Food Politics, Fast Food Nation, Big Ag, Foodies, Eric Schlosser, Food News

At the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual meeting this year, Bob Stallman, the group's president, lashed out at "self-appointed food elitists" w...

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I Am Review: Hollywood Director Exlores What's Right with the World

Dan Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

As the world is transfixed by remarkable change in the Middle East, America's popcorn culture distracts us with another Nicholas Cage road rage movie ...

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HuffPost's Greatest Person Of The Day: Barbara Kowalcyk, Food Safety Advocate

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Foodborne Illness, FDA Recall, Kevin's Law, Food Inc., Barbara Kowalcyk, Greatest Person of the Day, Food Safety, Children's Health, E. Coli, US News, Impact of Eating Meat, Center for Food Safety, Video, Impact News

Every day on HuffPost, we're highlighting one 'Greatest Person'- an exceptional individual who is confronting the country's economic and political cri...

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The Biggest Election Showdown is WHERE?

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Pollan said "For the food movement," this may be "the most important election this year." Slow Food chef Kurt Michael Friese named it, The Mo...

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So, You Think You Earn an Honest Living?

Crystal Syben Haidl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Capitalism, Social Capitalism, Honesty, Alan Dershowitz, Economic Crisis, Joe Klein, Jobs, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Democracy, George Bernard Shaw, Capitalism, Honest America, Tea Party Movement, Infrastructure, Labor, Labor Day, Food Inc., Work, Family Values, Values, Honest Living, Kalamazoo, Economic Terrorism, Nostra Culpa, Honest Work, Will Rogers, Honest Economy, Accountability, Civilianality, Michael Moore Sicko, Politics News

While Tea Partiers, pundits, lobbyists and mid-term candidates are out-shouting mantras on how to fix the system, the one thing almost everyone agrees...

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Our Food Supply: The Next Frontier

Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Supply, Michael Pollan, Food Inc, Food Processing, Salim Ismail, Moffitt Field, Singularity University, Food News

The gating factor for huge sustainable change in the food production system, I conclude, isn't the availability of better food production and processing technology, but the perverse subsidies of the agriculture industry.

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ReThink Interview: Lawrence Bender and Lucy Walker on Countdown to Zero and Nuclear Weapons

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, Lucy Walker, Ronald Reagan, Robert McNamara, Rethink Reviews, An Inconvenient Truth, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear, Jonathan Kim, Nuclear Weapons, Rethink Interview, Dr. Strangelove, Lawrence Bender, Countdown to Zero, Radiohead, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Wmd, Centrifuge, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Highly Enriched Uranium, Nuclear Power, Missile, Food Inc., Plutonium, Uranium, Mikhail Gorbachev, Albert Einstein, Entertainment News

Why are nuclear weapons so far off our collective radars when they retain the potential to extinguish millions of lives -- if not all life on the planet -- in mere minutes?

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Where is Your Food From? Not Even Restaurant Owners Know

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Factory Farms, Angus Beef, Drink Eat Travel, Food Quality, Fast Food Industry, Food Inc., Impact News

Restaurant owners must lead the way if we are to change the way we raise cattle and serve meat. I'd encourage restaurants to offer the genuine product and then advertise the hell out of it.

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Food, Inc.'s Eric Schlosser Urges Senate to Pass Food Safety Bill

Jean Halloran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumers Union, Food Safety, Food Inc, S. 510, Eric Schlosser, US Senate, Green News

Schlosser is joining with Consumers Union to urge consumers to fight for passage of FDA food safety reform legislation, which passed the House last year and is now stalled awaiting action in the Senate.

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Will Big Ag Continue its Pointless Crusade Against Real Food on PBS?

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Pbs, Michael Pollan, Smithfield, Food Inc., Food Politics, Food, Edible Communities, Monsanto, Tyson, Pov, Green News

As food issues come out of the foodie fringe and into the mainstream, moneyed special interests are beginning to fear for their bottom lines just a little bit.

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Greenwashing Corn: Industrial Ag Tries to Bolster its Tarnished Image

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Food Inc., King Corn, Corn, Dead Zone, Agriculture, National Corn Growers Association, Farm Subsidies, Corn Ethanol, Corn Farms, Green News

EWG can hardly wait to get our invitation to hear how the corn growers are going to boost their image with environmentalists by growing more corn.

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Farmers Look for Justice in the Poultry Industry

Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carole Morrison, Christine Varney, Usda, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Food Inc., Eric Holder Attorney General, Doj, Food News

Poultry farmers face daily fear, uncertainty and intimidation from the companies they contract with. This type of intimidation is a clear sign of how powerful and arrogant these companies have grown.

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Michelle: Talk to Your Husband About Obesity

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Robert Kenner, Michelle Obama, Fighing Obesity, Michelle Obama Obesity Plan, Food Inc., U.S. Food Production, Healthy Living News

Corn production is heavily subsidized by the government, masking its environmental, transportation, and processing costs.

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Chicken Farmers Decry Monopolization Of Industry, "Indentured Servitude," In Gov't Hearing

AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chickens, Chicken Farming, Food Inc., Agriculture, Chicken Farmers, Food News

NORMAL, Ala. — Alabama chicken farmer Garry Staples told federal officials Friday that there's no open market in the poultry industry. The 57-y...

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Calorie Count Disclosure And The Health Care Bill: Will This Lead To A Food Revolution?

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Michael Pollan, Nutrition-Information, Health Care, Food Inc., Nutritional Labeling, Calorie Counts, Food Politics, Green News

One aspect of the health care bill that is taking effect immediately is that chain restaurants will be required to prominently display nutrition infor...

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NPR Compares Animal Factory to Sinclair and Schlosser

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mrsa, Factory Farming, The Jungle, Cafo, Swine Flu, Npr, Factory Farms, Bse, David Kirby, Upton Sinclair, Animal Factory, Fast Food Nation, Muckraking, Mad Cow, Food Inc, Cafos, Eric Schlosser, Books News

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is ignorant. We should not ignore the potential for animal factory farming to one day come back and bite us all in our collective, blissful behinds.

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Food, Inc Director says "It's not just about food, it's about our right to know" (VIDEO)

Frank Sesno | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Robert Kenner, George Washington University, Planet Forward, Food Inc., Agriculture, Food, Climate Change, Green News

Robert Kenner's documentary about the industrialization of food got a plug from Oprah, was nominated for "Best Documentary" in this year's Academy Awa...

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How to Annoy PETA and Monsanto, Part 2 of our Interview with Food, Inc Director (VIDEO)

Frank Sesno | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pbs, Gwu, Video, George Washington University, Robert Kenner, Peta, Food Inc., Monsanto, Green News

The production, transportation and sale of food requires millions of barrels of oil and per year. Kenner argues maybe science can help us find a solution.

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Green News Report -- March 9, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Poisoning, Dolphins, Vitamin D, Renewable Energy, Factory Farms, Salmonella, The Oscars, Fda, Energy Policy, Methane, E. Coli, Arctic, Texas, Water Pollution, Food Inc., The Cove, Pew Research Center, Nitrogen, Oil, Coal Ash, Sustainability, Up the Movie, Food, Climate Change, Usda, Oscars 2010, Air Pollution, Ozone, Global Warming, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rush Limbaugh, Wind Energy, BRAD BLOG, Green News Report, Green News, Green News

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