Cupcakes for Gamers
To get back in the swing of blogging, I thought I’d start off with something easy and fun. To ring in the New Year, this group of people combined their two passions (which I happen to share): cupcakes and games. They made individual cupcakes honoring 100 different games that ran the gamut from board games [...]
June 6, 2010
Tags: blogs, heroes, innovation Posted in: Fun Food Facts 
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PSA – Wash Those Pre-Washed Salad Greens
Recent research from the Consumer Reports Magazine found that those bagged salad mixes, most claiming to be pre-washed and ready to eat, aren’t as clean as you’d like them to be. Thankfully, what they found wasn’t e coli, salmonella or anything as dreadful as that. Instead, in their sample of 208 bags (representing 16 brands) [...]
March 13, 2010
Tags: agriculture, education, factory farms, Health, heroes, waste Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology One Comment
Let’s Move — Michelle Obama’s Campaign Against Childhood Obesity
It may sound impossible, but Michelle Obama, the self-proclaimed “Mom-In-Chief“, has made it her goal to end childhood obesity within a generation. Â (You can read the official memorandum here). Though, really, her campaign began long before the official Let’s Move program. Â She reinstated the White House garden – the first since seen since Elanor Roosevelt [...]
February 27, 2010
Tags: change, heroes, Michelle Obama, moms, nutrition, obesity Posted in: Health, Politics 5 Comments
Al Gore Denounces Factory Farming
Al Gore says he’s going to get crazy in order to get politicians to take note of the urgency of climate change. And, well, if those ideas sound a little too crazy, he does have other ideas.  Along with increased energy efficiency, relying on sustainable agricultural practices is the way forward. The funny is up [...]
November 25, 2009
Tags: change, factory farms, farmers, heroes, veganism, vegetarianism Posted in: Politics No Comments
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 No Comments
Finally An Intelligent Move: RIP Smart Choices
After creating quite a stir in the foodie blogosphere, the mainstream media, and even riling up the lethargic FDA, the industry led Smart Choices label is voluntarily suspending the promotion of its program. Â They even had the Attorney General of Connecticut after them–Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that he was investigating the program and some [...]
October 26, 2009
Tags: blogs, change, education, FDA, Health, heroes, nutrition, policy Posted in: Health, Politics, Science & Technology 3 Comments
Lobbyist Run Non-Profit Scams
Rachel Maddow is pretty awesome. Â She tells it like it is. Â Listen to her dish it out against the Center for Consumer Freedom. Â Really, that should be “consumer freedom“:
If you are further interested in what a crackpot Richard Berman is, you can find out about him and his expertise at bermanexposed.com. Â Essentially, there are a [...]
October 5, 2009
Tags: Health, heroes, innovation, marketing, obesity, soda, sugar Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Politics No Comments
The Man Who Fed The World
Dubbed the father of the green revolution, Norman Borlaug helped to create high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties around the world. He is attributed with saving over one billion lives from starvation worldwide. As just one example of the profound changes he made in agriculture, between 1965 and 1970 wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan [...]
October 2, 2009
Tags: agriculture, change, education, farmers, heroes, innovation, nutrition Posted in: Health, Science & Technology No Comments
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
Tags: Barack Obama, change, food, Health, heroes, nutrition, policy Posted in: Uncategorized 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
