Soda Taxes Part Two – The Industry Creates A Citizens Coalition
Does the potential revenue from soda taxes persuade anyone to give anyone a second thought?
Not a chance, says the group Americans Against Food Taxes. Â Americans Against Food Taxes is a “coalition of concerned citizens” that is strictly opposed to the sweetened beverage taxes. Â However, on more than cursory view, you find that it is actually [...]
September 30, 2009
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Dairy Farms Contaminate Water And Get Away With It
According to the EPA, agricultural runoff is single largest polluter of the nation’s rivers and streams. However, thanks to years of paltry EPA authority and the lax legislation imposed during the Bush administration, their hands are pretty much tied when it comes to stopping it. There are laws in place that have big [...]
September 21, 2009
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The Future Of Health Care Is Fighting The Farm Lobby
In an op-ed piece for the New York Times, Michael Pollan portends the entangled futures of health care, obesity, and insurance companies. Just as the insurance companies joined governmental efforts to rally against smoking, Pollan foresees insurance companies tackling obesity. This is necessarily after upcoming health care reforms.
Even the weaker versions of reform [...]
September 11, 2009
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Obama Announces Plan For Lunchroom Reform
In a special interview with an intrepid 11-year-old, Obama explained how he was going to make school lunches both tastier and healthier. Damon Weaver comes from a low-income school district in Pahokee, Florida, and has previously scored interviews with Dwayne Wade, a basketball star, and then-senator Joe Biden. Weaver asks what many parents want to [...]
August 19, 2009
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Lab-Grown Meat, The Future Is Soon
Flipping to the resources page of the New Harvest website, a non-profit whose mission is to promote and advance meat substitutes, you find twice as many popular articles on the subject of lab-grown meat as there are technical articles on it. Test-tube meat, in vitro meat, cultured meat or whatever name you call it may [...]
July 20, 2009
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Factory Farmed Animals Hog All The Antibiotics
70% of the antibiotics produced in the US go to animals that are not sick. Amassed together in small spaces, diseases can flourish and rapidly spread to all of the confined animals so the purveyors of Concentrated Animal Feed Operations (CAFOs) use them as a preventative measure, but also to stimulate growth. Both practices are [...]
July 15, 2009
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State Of The Food Nation
Food Inc. is out in theaters and is scaring the “bejesus” out of people. Michelle Obama has harvested her garden and made stirring speeches encouraging change in the American diet. Healthcare reforms are being debated in Congress that will effect the way chronic, food-related diseases are treated. There are massive food recalls almost weekly. Our [...]
July 6, 2009
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Judge Sotomayor, Where Will She Stand On Future Food Issues?
At Obama Foodorama, the slightly obsessive website of all things food related to the president, they have got plenty of questions about Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. They foresee many food and agriculture cases coming to the fore in the near future:
There’ve been many Supreme Court cases related to food and Ag [...]
May 27, 2009
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A Few Thoughts On The State Of The FDA
1. People keep being surprised that the FDA does not have the power to invoke food recalls itself. Marion Nestle says the FDA’s authority relegates it to asking the companies to “pretty please” recall tainted food (link). This must be why the ‘A’ stands for administration and not authority. The FDA alert [...]
April 11, 2009
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Michael Pollan, Condensed – An Interview with Mother Jones Magazine
Michael Pollan had a great interview with the Mother Jones magazine. In it, he concisely portrays what are the quintessential points of contemporary food activism. If haven’t had time to pick up his books In Defense of Food or The Omnivore’s Dilemma, read this short article. I especially like his rational, pragmatic [...]
March 26, 2009
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