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
Tags: agriculture, Barack Obama, change, farmers, Health, Michael Pollan, nutrition, obesity, policy, subsidies Posted in: Health, Politics 
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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
Tags: agriculture, bacon, Barack Obama, change, cows, farmers, food event, green, greenhouse gases, innovation Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Science & Technology No Comments
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
Tags: agriculture, bacon, Barack Obama, change, farmers, food safety, Health, heroes, policy Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology One Comment
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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Food Inc., The Reviews Are In
Sorry, there are no theaters within 20 miles of my zipcode that are playing Food Inc. I will have to get it on Netflix when it comes out. In the mean time, I have watched the trailer and read a bunch of the reviews:
There is the short and sweet review by Marion Nestle, who describes [...]
July 1, 2009
Tags: agriculture, change, farmers, food event, Health, marketing, nutrition, policy Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Politics 4 Comments
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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Will We Say Cheerio To Cheerios Health Claims?
The FDA is cracking down on General Mills’ health claim on their Cheerios boxes. The claim, which is rather prominently displayed, says eating Cheerios will lower your cholesterol by 4% in 6 weeks. Even if “clinical trials” have shown such improvement, the issue is that General Mills is making a claim that its product works [...]
May 15, 2009
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Kat Asks Marion Nestle ‘Where’s The Rage At?’
Back before the swine flu started making heads spin, there was major concern for the US’s overall food safety. Â Or was there? Â Foodies and the related blogosphere were taking note, but the general public seemed more blase about it. Â Kat, from Eating Liberally, caught up with the most well-known voice for food safety, Dr. Marion [...]
May 6, 2009
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Behind The Scenes At The Child Nutrition Policy Meeting
From the American News Project in February:
The Committee on Medicine said they are looking to make “evidence based” changes to the National School Lunch Program. Funny how they haven’t paid attention to the evidence for the last thirty years. It might have something to do with the fact there weren’t any scientists at [...]
May 4, 2009
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