Teens Need Kitchen Counter-Culture
It's ironic that teens today are correctly pushing the social agenda in their schools to allow a diversity of identities to be expressed but are consuming foods that have little nutritional value and are uniform.
It's ironic that teens today are correctly pushing the social agenda in their schools to allow a diversity of identities to be expressed but are consuming foods that have little nutritional value and are uniform.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
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.
Kyle Cassidy | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
Michael Pollan stated that "A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef-eater in a Prius" at the Pop-Tech conference last Saturday. The only problem is, the statement isn't true.
Darya Pino | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living
We've shunned fats, sugars, starches and everything in between, and embraced each new diet trend with open arms and wallets. And perhaps not surprisingly, it appears some people are now taking it too far.
Leslie Hatfield | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
Originally published on The Green Fork. I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmer...
Kathy Freston | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books
If ever there was a book that could profoundly affect our lives at the most fundamental level, this one is it.
Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books
If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.
Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.
Michael Moore | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
I have 15 things we can all do right now to fix the very broken system in this country and to fight back against those who have brought us to where we are. C'mon people -- we can do this!
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
There are 26,000 food poisoning cases per 100,000 Americans, every year (an eye-popping 26% of the population). Compare that to only 3,400 cases in the UK, or 1,200 in France.
Liz Neumark | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York
The white silk scarf I received from the Dalai Lama is a symbol. Our actions determine whether or not it stays white -- our actions in our lives and in the universe of food.
nytimes.com | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
Earlier this year, Michael Pollan posted a request for reader's rules about eating on Well, Tara Parker Pope's health blog. Within days, more than 2,5...
Grist | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
In response to a question about whether we can really feed the world without industrialized ag (ah yes, a perennial), Pollan pointed out that we're no...
Ellen Kanner | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green
In an old comedy routine, Mel Brooks plays a therapist who advises his patient, "Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli will tell you how to eat i...
Anne Z. Boxer | Posted 11.29.2009 | Denver
I am boycotting Whole Foods to remind myself that we each need to make sacrifices to remember what is important. But who knew that an English muffin would require me to temporarily end my boycott?
Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
As a political observer following the shift occurring in our understanding about agriculture, I can't help but be reminded that change does not come p...
AP | RYAN J. FOLEY | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home
One best-selling book advocating fresh, local foods is shaking up America's Dairyland.
Students across University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus, organic grocers, scientists, and dairy farmers large and small have jumped into the debate on how food is produced and eaten. The discussions started last month when the university began giving Michael Pollan's book, "In Defense of Food," free to all incoming freshmen and school officials urged professors to use it in class.
"I have not seen the students this excited about something in years," Irwin Goodman, a horticulture professor who is vice dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences said of the buzz on campus about Pollan's field-to-table philosophies.
The book urges readers to "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" and criticizes food companies and scientists for replacing traditional foods with unhealthier, highly processed substitutes and confusing consumers with health claims.
Pollan's work has been used on college campuses from the University of California-Berkeley, where he is a journalism professor, to Columbia University in New York City for courses ranging from science journalism to environmental politics. But the program at UW-Madison is unique because the book and related topics are being discussed everywhere from French and political science courses to an exhibit on the history of food. And Pollan is to speak at the 17,000-seat Kohl Center Thursday in the liberal college town.
Rob Smart | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Early pioneers of the sustainable food movement, with dirt on their hands, lessons learned and progress made, have played a critical role in blazing trails for new ventures.
Grist | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green
First in The New York Times last week and then on NPR this weekend, Michael Pollan made that point that if we want to fix our health-care system, we h...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Obama's health care speech was just the opening salvo in a much larger change in the way we live. What the president didn't say: The American health care/medical industry is currently based on a sickness model.
Ben Wyskida | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
There is a much broader movement out there towards food democracy: the effort to ensure healthy food for everyone.
Barth Anderson | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
Because he's a professor, not a grocer, Michael Pollan can be forgiven for not understanding that the boycott is actually a "core" shopper revolt.
Christina Pirello | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
We need to consider what has happened to the quality of our lives since we gave away control of our bodies; we must learn to use pharmaceuticals more appropriately and not medicate ourselves into oblivion.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green
Sandwiched between the caricatures of loco locavores and McWilliams' hey-ho-GMO cheerleading, lies the meat of the matter; we can't go on eating animals like this.
Christina Pirello | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the Amer...
Sarah Newman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green