For a free country, we've got an awfully tyrannical food chain. If we truly are what we eat, I guess that makes us a nation of nature-hating misanthropes.
Tracie McMillan | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living
While urban farmers often share the ethos championed by Michael Pollan, they're getting their hands dirty for a more pragmatic reason: They can't find quality, fresh food close to home.
Felicia C. Sullivan | Posted 05.04.2008 | Living
Why not start making small swap-outs? You don't have to go wild in the supermarket buying organic like it's going out of style, but perhaps try some produce, dairy, chicken. Taste the difference.
Katherine Goldstein | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
While I reject the notion that it's my "patriotic duty" to buy more junk I don't need, here are 3 ideas of worthy ways to spend the money that could do some social and economic good.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living
I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but this whole Earth Day thing is really just a front for a cabal of dirt-loving luddites determined to destroy life as we know it in America.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media
So what's in the much touted "Green Issue" of the New York Times Magazine coming on Sunday? For one thing, some "Green Porno."
Alan Miller | Posted 03.03.2008 | Living
It seems to me that the ever-increasing intervention of authorities and bureaucrats in what we eat, drink, or smoke is far unhealthier than anything we may ingest.
Derek Beres | Posted 03.03.2008 | Living
Can you imagine a candidate stepping up on the next debate to declare that we can begin to heal ourselves through a whole foods, plant-based diet?
Kerry Trueman | Posted 02.26.2008 | Living
The Hacienda Heights McDonald's is buyin' it, but while its decor has been overhauled to inspire happiness, the menu is still larded with the same old artery-clogging animal products.
Jon Wiener | Posted 02.19.2008 | Living
"The problem is that every step of additional processing makes the food less nutritious," he replied. "So they add lots of nutrients back in to the processing so they can make health claims. But they only add what they know is missing.
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"The problem is that every step of additional processing makes the food less nutritious," Pollan told me. "So they add lots of nutrients back in to the processing so they can make health claims. But they only add what they know is missing.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 02.07.2008 | Living
With meat consumption fingered as a major factor in climate change, more and more carnivores have been cowed into cutting back on factory farmed flesh.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 01.17.2008 | Living
Starbucks is not just another company that mainlined growth, saturated the market and lost its way. It's the one public space in America that's the natural heir to the venerable Kaffeehäusen of Vienna and cafés of Paris.
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Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.09.2008 | Living