Martha Stewart To Have A Vegetarian Thanksgiving
Jonathan Safran Foer has been talked about and to in nearly every major media outlet since his book Eating Animals came out. Where Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma tiptoes around the treatment of factory farmed animals, Eating Animals blows the doors wide open on the modern day “farm”.
In an email to Erik Marcus of vegan.com, Jonathan [...]
November 22, 2009
Tags: change, farmers, food, food event, heroes, veganism, vegetarianism Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health 
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Chestnuts and Wassailing, Blight and Good Old Fashioned Holiday Cheer
Okay, I’ll admit it. I actually like going to the mall at this time of the season. Even if I am not particularly interested in buying anything at the time, the holiday lights create a commercialized nostalgia that makes me all warm inside. And yes, I love Christmas music. I am the type of person [...]
November 14, 2009
Tags: agriculture, alcohol, food, food event Posted in: Science & Technology One Comment
“Smart Choices” A Dumb Move?
Diet Pepsi, Kraft’s macaroni & cheese, Kid Cuisine, Lunchables, and Froot Loops (now with added fiber!) are just some of the 500 processed foods getting the green “Smart Choices” label. “Smart Choices” is front-of-the-package labeling meant to help rushed or confused consumers pick healthy(er?) foods.
Sure, Diet Pepsi and Kraft’s macaroni and cheese are smart [...]
September 7, 2009
Tags: food event, Health, innovation, marketing, nutrition, obesity, pepsi, sugar Posted in: Health, Science & Technology 2 Comments
Come On Down To The…USDA!
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan wants to be the “matchmaker” between the Obama administration and USDA program administrators. She recently sent out a memo, “Harnessing USDA rural development programs to support local and regional food systems,” (pdf) to her staff and interested third parties. It details how those programs can cash in on the [...]
August 31, 2009
Tags: agriculture, education, farmers, food event, policy, USDA Posted in: Health, Politics One Comment
Marion Nestle Talks Sugar And Ag Policy On The Colbert Report
According to the manufacturers of a huge amount of processed, sugar-laden foodstuffs, there is a sugar crisis in the United States. On August 5th, representatives of those companies wrote to the Secretary Vilsack at the USDA asking him to lift the stringent quotas on imported sugar. Marion Nestle, of course, has plenty to say [...]
August 26, 2009
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Food–In Space!
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s high time we celebrate what keeps astronauts going on those trips.
First of all, the one thing that should be celebrated in conjunction with food in space is that microgravity does not affect natural swallowing processes–something scientists were rightly worried about before John Glenn (the [...]
August 12, 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
Celebrate July 4th With Contaminated Cookies And Beef
The Cookies
From January to June 2009, at least 69 people from 29 states have gotten sick with E. coli O157:H7, which stemmed from eating Nestlé’s raw cookie dough.
On June 19, the FDA warned the public not to eat Nestlé’s raw cookie dough and Nestlé issued a voluntary recall.
Like most voluntary recalls, it does not stop [...]
July 3, 2009
Tags: FDA, food, food event, food safety, Health, policy, USDA Posted in: Health, Politics One Comment
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
Soda Tax, An Idea That’s Bubbling All Over
Everyone is excited about soda taxes, except for the soda companies and me. Kelly Brownell, a longtime obesity researcher at Yale, and Thomas Frieden, the New York City health commissioner wrote a persuasive argument (pdf) for the imposition of soda taxes in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that has [...]
May 22, 2009
Tags: food, food event, Health, nutrition, obesity, soda, subsidies, sugar Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology 2 Comments
