Great Food Politics Blogs
Parke Wilde teaches graduate level courses in food policy and statistics at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Along with some of his graduate students, he keeps the U.S. Food Policy.
He recently wrote a sort of ‘top ten’ list of food policy blogs for blogs.com:
In this list, he looked beyond the excellent sites that already appeared in a recent list at Culinate, which included Ethicurean, Green Fork, ChewsWise, Food Politics, Politics of the Plate, Grist, Civil Eats, and Obama Foodorama. Parke’s list adds some more blogs from within what might loosely be called the “good food movement,” but it emphasizes other selections that he reads to maintain diversity in his information stream.
Food Law Prof Blog
For legal news and insight, a member of the Law Professor Blog Network. More legal blogging comes from the Agricultural Law blog.Amber Waves
The dry but substantial electronic magazine from USDA’s Economic Research Service, with accompanying RSS feed, is enough like a blog to make this list. In the same vein, one could mention Choices electronic magazine from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA).La Vida Locavore
A thick stream of news and policy commentary from a local food perspective.Blogriculture
By the staff of Capital News agriculture newspaper.Farm Policy
A thorough summary of daily agricultural news coverage, with excerpts and little editorial commentary.Fooducate
Practical food shopping advice. No pills. No industry affiliation.Center for a Livable Future Blog
Focusing on industrialized food production systems.Marler Blog
Commentary on food poisoning outbreaks and litigation.TEFAP Alliance Blog
News about food assistance programs and the anti-hunger movement.Daily Bread
The food business blog at Slate’s site, The Big Money.
Damn straight...
October 7, 2009
Tags: blogs, education, food, Health, policy Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health
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Thanks for the shout-out
Tune into Larry King at 9pm EDT tonight to see Barbara Kowalcyk and her mother, Pat Buck talk about their cursade to spare other families the tragedy that struck them. Since Kevin’s death these two citizens have invested thousands of hours traveling to Washington to urge Congress to strengthen food safety laws. Last week they were here urging the Senate to pass the FDA reform legislation before Xmas. They have also urged Congress to reform the federal meat and poultry laws which are administered by the USDA, not FDA. These two women and Barb’s daughter as well are demonstrating that citizens can be effective in overcoming industry lobbies that reject change.
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