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Michael Pollan

Greed in the Seed: The "Inconvenient Truth" of How Food Gets to Your Table Revealed in Food, Inc.

Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Farming, Michael Pollan, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Organic Food, Healthy, Health, Vegan, Economic Crisis, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Eating, Food Inc, Sustainable Farming, Meat, Wellness, Eric Schlosser, Living News
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald

Food, Inc. is a film whose time has come. With the economic meltdown and the change at the White House, people are demanding more transparency and accountability from those in charge.

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Food, Inc.: The Silence of the Yams

Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Big Ag, Usda, Robbie Kenner, Michael Pollan, George Carlin, Food Inc., Cafo, Food Inc Movie, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Robbie Kenner didn't mean to make a horror film when he started working on Food, Inc.. But you can't shine a light on our food chain without exposing some ugly truths.

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Reclaiming America, Bite by Bite

Isabel Cowles | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Cafos, Factory Farming, Local Food, Eric Schlosser, Inc., Food, Michael Pollan, Green News
Isabel Cowles

The food industry has shifted from a broad network of producers and consumers towards a handful of corporate giants that control food culture not only in the grocery store, but also on the farm and on Capitol Hill.

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HuffPost Review: Food, Inc.

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Pollan, Food Safety, Corn, Eric Schlosser, Inc., Food, Food Inc Film, Food Inc, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Food, Inc. is a hard movie to enjoy. Not that it's not well-made. Just the opposite: It's so convincingly compelling.

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FRESH Director Ana Joanes Blazes A Trail To Greener Pastures

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Monsanto, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, Food Inc., Fresh, Will Allen, Organic, Ana Joanes, Barack Obama, Green News
Kerry Trueman

FRESH, which premieres this week in New York, Boston and DC, "celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system."

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Can Artists Save The World?

Julia Moulden | Posted 06.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Tom Stoppard, Toni Beatty, White House, Michael Pollan, Grassroots, New Radicals, Garden, Careers, Mexico, Artists, Obama, Julia Moulden, Victory Garden, The Giving Life, Living News
Julia Moulden

A photograph of me circa 1977 hangs over my desk. It was taken by Toni Beatty, an American photographer I met when we shared adjoining villas and a g...

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Michael Pollan Discusses His Vision For Genetically Modified Crops (VIDEO)

Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Genetically Modified Food, Michael Pollan, Green News

In the following video from fora.tv, Michael Pollan calls for an open source approach to genetic engineering. Pollan doesn't think that genetic modifi...

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Michael Pollan On Colbert: I Was Busted Buying Fruity Pebbles, Colbert Is Pasty (VIDEO)

Posted 06.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Video, Michael Pollan Colbert, Michael Pollan, Food, In Defense of Food, Pollan Colbert, Green News

Michael Pollan, the author of "In Defense of Food," appeared on the "Colbert Report" last night and in between obnoxious barbs from the lovable host d...

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Fresh -- New Thinking About What We're Eating

Ana Joanes | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Food Matters, Michael Pollan, Eating Matters, Fresh, Agriculture, Farmers, Green News
Ana Joanes

It is not only the pig whose pig-ness we need to respect, but the Ana-ness of Ana. By learning to respect and embrace the truth of who I am, I too can find my place and role in this world.

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Food and Farming in Obama's First 100 Days

Michael Pollan | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, President Obama, Organic Food, Crop Subsidies, Sustainable Food, Tom Vilsack, White House Garden, Nutrition, Agriculture, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Obama's First 100 Days, Gardening, 100 Days, Green News
Michael Pollan

Perhaps the most encouraging action so far has come from the East Wing, where Michelle Obama has been speaking out about the importance of real, fresh food, home cooking and gardening.

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A Movement Is Growing: A Look Back at the Last Year in Green(er) Food

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Dr. Marion Nestle, Paula Crossfield, Michael Pollan, Severine-Von-Tcharner-Fleming, Social Change, Anna Lappe, Sam Fromartz, Food Politics, Gwen Schantz, Annie Meyer, Jill Richardson, Kerry Trueman, Joan Dye Gussow, Kim O'Donnel, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

It's been a big year for the food movement.

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A Food Revolution in the Making, from Victory Gardens to the White House Lawn

Michael Pollan | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Michelle Obama, Michael Pollan, Local Food, White House Garden, Sustainable Food, In Defense of Food, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Gardening, Local Farmers, Victory Garden, Victory Gardens, Green News
Michael Pollan

If we want to make significant progress in reducing global warming we will need to wean the American food system off its heavy diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of solar energy.

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Rolling Stone's Environmental Rock Stars

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Walmart, Al Gore, Philippe Starck, Environmentalists, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Biofuel, Economy, Agriculture, Green, Neil Young, Henry Waxman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Van Jones, Coal, Barack Obama, Bruce Nilles, Steven Chu, Solar Energy, Michael Pollan, Carol Browner, Climate Change, Electric Cars, Rolling Stone, Environment, Sierra Club, Bonnarroo, Green Living, Green News
Avital Binshtock

It may not be the cover of Rolling Stone, but the Sierra Club's own Bruce Nilles is nonetheless a rock star for being No. 74 on the iconic rock magazine's "RS 100: Agents of Change" list.

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The Low Carb(on) Diet

Marc Gunther | Posted 04.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Michael Pollan, Climate Change, Bon Appetit, Helene York, Local Farmers, Green News
Marc Gunther

The Low Carbon Diet is pretty simple. You eat less beef and cheese. You throw away less food. And you try, when possible, to eat locally grown food.

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The Politician Who's Ready to Reclaim Our Food Chain Now

Kerry Trueman | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Michael Pollan, Growing Power, Mayor Bloomberg, Foodshed, Sustainability, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Will Allen, New York City, Food Deserts, Environment, Food, Green Living, Green News
Kerry Trueman

While Obama and Tom Vilsack have given lip service to the merits of Michael Pollan's proposals, our bold Manhattan borough president has been busy actively working to implement them.

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I Was a Victim of the Peanut Butter Recall

Scott Dodd | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Salmonella Peanut Butter, Personal Health, Books, The New York Times, Email, Omnivore's Dilemma, Fresh Direct, Fda, Eating Local, Peanut Butter, New York City, Michael Pollan, Bush Administration, Food and Drug Safety, Health, Grocery Stores, Fast Food Nation, Eating Locally, The Omnivore's Dilemma, New York Times, Peanut Butter Salmonella, Food and Drug Administration, Peanut Butter Recall, Living News
Scott Dodd

I can't say that I was in the dark when I bought my honey-roasted peanut butter last week, but like so many people, I had the impression that someone was looking out for me.

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FOOD MATTERS: Mark Bittman's New Book Includes Philosophy As Main Ingredient

star-telegram.com | AMY CULBERTSON | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Matters, Michael Pollan, Politics of Food, Eating Matters, Food, Mark Bittman, Food Matters Book, Reducing Waste, Green News

Indeed, Bittman is the most commonsensical of food writers, though it's clear that he loves to eat and that his palate has high standards. So when he ...

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Cheap and Easy: Good Food in a Bad Recession

Elissa Altman | Posted 02.18.2009 | Style

Read More: McDonald's, Michael Pollan, Terence Brennan, Recession Food, Happy Meal, Mark Bittman, Good Food, Food, Style News
Elissa Altman

If the average dollar-conscious consumer has to choose between a $15 grilled cheese and a $5 Happy Meal -- meat with all the trimmings, fries, and an aircraft sized soda -- what will they pick?

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California Leadin'

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: California, Tom Vilsack, Tom Vilsak, The New York Times, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Proposition 2, Obama Picks Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Animals, Tom Vilsack and Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Michael Pollan, New York Times, Sustainability, Nicholas Kristof, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Senate Agriculture Committee, Politics News
Wayne Pacelle

There are problems with animal agriculture that still need attention, including painful mutilation of animals without anesthesia, the rampant use of antibiotics on factory farms, and waste generated by these operations.

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Why Aren't The Swiss Fat?

Tara Stiles | Posted 02.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Switzerland, Health, Healthy Eating, Hiking, Walking, Biking, Michael Pollan, Nutrition, Commuting, Weight Loss, Eating Well, Gardening, Diet, Mountains, The Balanced Life, Living News
Tara Stiles

They seem to have an easier life -- we desperately need an escape from ours. My Swiss friends surprisingly couldn't report any of the names of the Jolie-Pitt kids and weren't interested in Jen.

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Heating Up the White House Kitchen

Tim Zagat | Posted 02.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Culinary, White House Food, Daniel Boulud, Sustainable Food, Martha Stewart, Danny Meyer, Americana, Obama Inauguration, Ralph Brennan, Alice Waters, Inauguration Food, Barack Obama Inauguration, Tom Colicchio, David Chang, White House Kitchen, Inaugural Food, Chefs, Lydia Bastianich, Michael Pollan, David Bouley, Rich Melman, Obama Food, Cooking, Inauguration, Sheila Lukins, Sustainability, Food, Inaugural Dinner, Style News
Tim Zagat

At a time when many Americans are overweight, the trim First Family should serve as models of healthy eating balanced with regular exercise.

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Duped: A Nation of Eaters

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Greed, The Apprentice, Donald Trump, Marion Nestle, Food Contamination, Food Crisis, Genetically Modified Corn, Genetically Engineered Foods, Revolving Door, Toxic, Genetically Modified Crops, Food Poisoning, Politics of Food, Michael Pollan, Health, Corporate Greed, Food Politics, Food, Vatican, Government Sachs, Genetically Engineered Crops, George Clooney, Michael Clayton, Gmo, Politics News
Robyn O'Brien

As I read about baby formulas and jars of salsa laced with who-knows-what, I was left slack-jawed.

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Food Matters, and it Matters More Than Ever

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Sustainable Agriculture, Michael Pollan, Green Living, Sustainable Food, Locavore, Cooking, Sustainability, Green News
Graham Hill

Bittman's recipes are frequently 'flexitarian' -- that means they are good to make either with or without meat.

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'Yes We Can' Create a Sane Food Policy in the U.S.

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charlie Stenholm, Whole Foods, Time Magazine, Pew Foundation, Center for Public Integrity, John Carlin, Pew Commission, Larry Summers, Joe Klein, Barack Obama, Clinton Administration, Farm Bill, Michael Pollan, John Salazar, Colin Peterson, Union of Concerned Scientists, Dwight Eisenhower, Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, John Podesta, Rosa DeLauro, Obama Transition, National Economic Council, Eric Schlosser, Bill Moyers, Politics News
Bruce Friedrich

In January, we will have a president who understands and cares about the broader implications of our food policy. This will be an impressive first.

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The Recession Makes People Eat Less Meat, But More Fast Food

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 01.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Skinny Bitch, Michael Pollan, Vegetarian, Lindsay Lohan, Health, Vegan, Health Food, Vegetarianism, Health Care, Flexitarianism, Fast Food, Food, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

In a country where affordable and accessible health care was one of the biggest issues in the recent presidential election, it seems unwise to be trading whole foods for processed ones.

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