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Are You Eating In The Matrix?

Darya Pino | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Fast Food, Corn, Health, Food, Food Policy, Diet, The Matrix, Industrial Agriculture, Soy, Living News
Darya Pino

Unplugging from the industrial food Matrix does not need to happen all at once, but you can extract yourself from it eventually. The first step is starting to see it clearly.

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Sam Kass: The White House Chef Digs All Things Locavore

nytimes.com | RACHEL L. SWARNS | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Policy, White House Chef, Local Food, White House Garden, Sam Kass, Food Politics, Green News

Still, proponents of sustainable farming and locally grown, organic foods are cheering Mr. Kass on. Dan Barber, the chef at Blue Hill in Greenwich Vil...

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The Obama Administration and Food, Year One

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Usda, Michael Pollan, Kathleen Merrigan, Research, Tom Vilsack, President Obama, Cafo, Big Ag, Food Safety, Food Policy, Technology, E. Coli, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Green News
Paula Crossfield

A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.

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Obama's Chief Agricultural Negotiator Nominee a Pesticide Pusher

Paula Crossfield | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Ustr, Pesticides, International Food Policy, Free Trade, Food Policy, Obama Administration, Gmos, Croplife, Green News
Paula Crossfield

The Obama administration has chosen someone from an organization dedicated at all costs to chemical-based agriculture to represent our trade interests abroad.

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Hip, Hip! Very Good (Food Policy) Fellow Visits White House Garden

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Leslie Hatfield, Eat the View, Local Food, Sam Kass, White House Garden, Kitchen Gardeners International, Food Politics, Food Policy, Obama, Tom Philpott, Gardening, Farmers' Markets, Roger Doiron, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

Today, Roger Doiron presents a compost-able list of signatures from people who supported his campaign to plant a White House edible garden, or wanted to thank the first family for their efforts.

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The White House Garden: Michelle Obama Is The First Lady Of Food Policy (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, White House Garden Video, White House Kitchen Garden, White House Garden, Food Politics, Food Policy, Michelle Obama Food, Michelle Obama White House Garden, Gardening, Michelle Obama Food Policy, Green News

The White House just released a new video about the kitchen garden as the second installment of their "Inside The White House" series. The video is no...

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Seeing Through the Food Industry's "Personal Responsibility" Smoke Screen

Rob Smart | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Consumer Food Expenditures, Retail, Conventional Food, Personal Responsibility, Family, Cooking, Food, Food Retail, Community, Home Cooking, Business, Innovation, Food Preparation, Triple Bottom Line, Pro Food, Eating, Industrial Food, Sustainable, Supermarkets, Food Marketing, Local, Consumers, Real Food, Grocery Prices, Walmart, Unhealthy Food, Food Politics, Cheap Groceries, Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, Cargill, General Mills, Food Policy, Family-Meal-Time, Healthy Eating Habits, Grocery Shopping, Family Meals, Unhealthy Eating, Local Food, The-Food-Revolution, Grocery Stores, Green News
Rob Smart

"Personal responsibility" is used as a smoke screen to cover the tracks of industrial food, tracks that run roughshod over the mirage of choice and personal responsibility.

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African Food Security? USAID Has Used Taxpayer Money to Fund GMOs Abroad Since 1991

Paula Crossfield | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Usaid, Kenya, Africa, Tom Vilsack, Health, Environment, Food Safety, Genetically Modified Food, Food Policy, Hillary Clinton, Gmos, Foreign Policy, Food Security, Iaastd, Kari, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Africans can look to India to see what a future of relying on biotech seeds looks like. There, a depleted water table, poisoned waterways and farmer suicides have been the result of the first Green Revolution.

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Food Companies Fight Soda Tax Proposal Despite Staggering Obesity Epidemic (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Taxes, Video, Weight of the Nation, Cdc, Beverage Tax, Soda, Americans Against Food Taxes, Food Policy, Soda Tax, Obesity, Unhealthy Food, Poll, Green News

This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held the first ever conference on obesity titled "The Weight Of The Nation." Obesity i...

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Healthcare and Food Policy: Part of the Same Conversation

Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Robert Reich, Lobbyists, Food Policy, Agribusiness, Health Insurance, Subsidies, Healthcare Reform, Single Payer, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Campaign Finance, Bill Moyers, Green News
Paula Crossfield

The critics of single-payer are either paid to tell you this, or are brainwashed by the multi-million dollar lobbying and advertising paid for by insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry.

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Racing Toward a Roundup-Ready Food Future

Nancy Scola | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Usda, Food Policy, Food, Soybeans, Monsanto, Gmos, Corn, Green News
Nancy Scola

What's clear from the new USDA numbers is how quickly the U.S. food supply is changing, whether we eaters like it or not.

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All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Biotechnology Has Failed Us, So Why Promote It Abroad?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Eric Holt-Gimenez, Hunger, Biotechnology, International Development, Food Access, Africa, Food Policy, Gmos, The Green Revolution, Raj Patel, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Groups like the Gates Foundation are trying to renew the idea of creating a "Green Revolution for Africa," using many of the same methods that have been so bad for India.

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Food, Inc. Gets Rave Reviews, Big Ag Shudders

Paula Crossfield | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Movement, Michael Pollan, Gmos, Food Inc., Fast Food, Genetically Modified Food, Food Policy, Regulation, Big Ag, Hillary Clinton, Food Safety, Legislation, Food Safety Enhancement Act, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Today, Food, Inc. debuts: it is certainly not a film to miss. Big Ag realizes that the tide is turning on the corporate control of our food system, and that their message is in jeopardy.

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The Obamas in the First 100 Days: "B-" on Agriculture Policy

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Michelle Obama, Kathleen Sebelius, White House Garden, Food Safety Working Group, Swine Flu, Obama First 100 Days, Food Safety, Food Policy, Obama, Green News
Paula Crossfield

When Michelle Obama put a vegetable garden on the White House lawn, I couldn't help but wonder if it would be the most powerful "soft" policy position on food this presidency could take in the first 100 days.

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Are Contrarians Helping or Hurting the Food Movement? Pork Op-Ed in NYT a Shill for Big Ag

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Pork, Shill, False Equivalence, Free-Range, New York Times, Big Ag, Media, Free-Range Pork, Food Policy, Factory Farms, Food Safety, Green News
Paula Crossfield

It seems that the New York Times, in its desperation to sell papers, fell into the trap of story building over truth-finding.

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Change We Can Believe In: Obama's Food Agenda

Steve Ettlinger | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Processed Food, Farm Bill, Obama Administration, Food Policy, Agriculture Dept., Vilsack, Health, Merrigan, Green News
Steve Ettlinger

Let's take inspiration from the public's interest in the food details on the inaugural web page and the hoopla around the new gardens and build on the momentum. Food policy is a change we can believe in.

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The Battle Over Sliced Apples: New York Senators Gillibrand and Aubertine Take Secretary Vilsack to Task on School Food

Paula Crossfield | Posted 04.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Processed Food, Secretary of Agriculture, Farm Bill, Food Access, Tom Vilsack, New Administration, School Food, Food Policy, Usda, Kirsten Gillibrand, Darrel Aubertine, Value-Added, Green News
Paula Crossfield

No, Gillibrand and Aubertine aren't lobbying for the Corn Refiners Association -- they are pushing for local food.

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Top Chefs Pushing Obama To Improve Food Policy

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Food, Food Policy, Alice Waters, Barack Obama, Agriculture, Rick Bayless, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Visiting one of his favorite Chicago restaurants in November, Barack Obama was asked by an excited waitress if he wanted the restau...

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What a New 'New Deal' Should and Should not Include for Agriculture and Rural America

Thomas Dobbs | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Food Policy, Economic Recovery, Green Infrastructure, New Deal, Economy, Rural Development, Agricultural Policy, Politics News
Thomas Dobbs

In building 'green' infrastructure, Obama should abandon the misguided federal mandates and subsidies for ethanol and focus on infrastructure for renewable energy sources.

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The U.S. Farm Bill & the Global Food Crisis

Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 06.06.2008 | Business

Read More: US Food Aid, Global Food Crisis, Biofuels, Biofuel, Food Policy Research Institute, Agriculture, Food Policy, Business News
Terra Lawson-Remer

U.S. food "aid" is more a vehicle to dump excess U.S. production than a benefit for hungry populations.

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