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The Last Food Article You Will Ever Need

Earlier this month, I read an article that summed up our health and food choices so well, I tracked it down to repeat. Here’s Mark Hyman, MD on The Last Diet You Will Ever Need: Why is it that we believe we can feed our bodies industrial, nutrient-depleted food-like substances empty of life and be healthy? How did we come to believe that food industry chemicals and processing could replace nature-made foods? A hundred years ago all food was organic, local, seasonal, fresh... Read More

Farm Bill 101: Don’t be Chicken

Before you run away, let me be the first to admit the Farm Bill, and relevant issues we may vote on in November, seems a tad overwhelming and maybe just a wee bit boring. But I’ll also admit that I believe anyone who eats should know something about what they’re putting in their mouths and why. So I was glad to see the big concepts wrangled into this accessible, and even interesting, Farm Bill Interactive Infographic that addresses how we determine which foods are... Read More

What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?

Vitamin donuts? Black market margarine? See the evolution of America’s diet and our government’s effect on what we eat at the National Archives’ exhibition What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam? through January 3, 2012.  Covering propaganda to innovation, historic documents illustrate Uncle Sam’s role in food production from farm to  factory, and its role in consumption from kitchen to table. Now if only we could take a transparent look at corporate America’s... Read More

Factory Farms Close to Home

Urban Gardener Mike Lieberman called our attention to this award-winning interactive factory farming map created by Food & Water Watch and New Signature. The map shows where U.S. factory farms are concentrated by specific animals, regions, states and counties.” Link to see what’s going on near you.  What to do? Leiberman suggests checking out some of the posts below to see how you can help stop factory farming: Unprecedented... Read More

Farming the Facts

 ”Food that most of us eat travels 1700 miles before it gets to our table,” says Urban Farmer Rashid Nuri. See more courtesy of Georgia Organics. Georgia Organics PSA from priyabapat on Vimeo.  Read More

Go Green for St. Pat’s and Save the Earth

What does drinking green beer have to do with a saint? Hmm, not sure…  Here’s another thing to contemplate: What does eating green have to do with protecting the environment? Ask the guy on the barstool next to you. Maybe he’ll know that animal agriculture (producing meat for our food supply) is responsible for more greenhouse gasses than all the world’s automobiles and other transportation combined.  At least, that was the case five years ago when... Read More

Eat S*** and Die

Like any polite Southern girl, I was taught to refrain from talking about sex, politics and religion, but what about meat? Over dinners of ham, pimento cheese or BBQ, Mama didn’t mention that food choices could be emotionally charged and very personal. So these days, when people ask, “Why don’t you eat meat,” I’m torn between summing up (a lengthy list of powerful reasons), or shutting up (because really, no one wants to know). Unfortunately, I was never one to mind... Read More