Michael Pollan: We Are Headed Toward a Breakdown in Our Food System
Alternet (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Pollan gives a glimpse at the current state of food politics inside the White House and within his own home.
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Chat Today With the Famous Omnivore, Michael Pollan
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
O.K., yes I have a crush on Michael Pollan and have had ever since I interviewed him during an infamous Portland ice storm. And yes, my husband knows. And yes, Michael Pollan is married. But also, big yes, as part of the press around the opening of the film Food Inc. , you can
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EaterWire: Michael Pollan on Facebook, Piccolo Expands, Lunch at Westside Tavern
Eater LA (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
CYBER WORLD— Join foodie author Michael Pollan tomorrow from 3-6p on Facebook for a live chat to discuss his participation in Food, Inc. Option...
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Hog Hotels: Animal Confinement and Big Pharma Farms
Chelsea Green (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
We are now living in a post fast-food-awareness reality, riding on the wake of Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser’s books (who rode on the wake of Wendell Berry), films like Food, Inc., renegade farmer heros like Joel Salatin and Eliot Coleman, and the ever-increasing popularity of urban gardening and locavores. But awareness, like anything, has [...]
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Nibbles snack edition: On “healthier” snacking, recession snacks and building a better camp care package
CalorieLab Calorie Counter News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... with antioxidants is still a sugary drink. But the halo of health claims often sucks people in. As Michael Pollan said in one of his books, if a food has a health claim on it, you probably shouldn’t eat it. One example of a legitimate attempt to make a junk food healthier comes in the form of Popchips , a popped potato chip (made in a similar way as rice cakes are made) that are lower...
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Food, Inc.
Planet of the Blind (Free subscription) | yesterday
... his home, and developed related interests in the environment and our food. I try, in the words of Michael Pollan , to Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. That is, to eat whole foods, not food “products” with funny ingredients like “cheddar cheese flavoring.” I purchase as many organics as I can afford, and have read many more PETA brochures than I care to recall. I haven’t eaten...
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Green weekender: All food and drinks
green LA girl (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
>> Chat with Michael Pollan about Food, Inc. at 3 pm today, Thurs., July 2, on Facebook! Michael will answer your Facebook and Twitter (send to @takepart) questions in the video player. Earlier: Film Review: Food, Inc. >> Westside LA Green Drinks happens tonight, Thurs., July 2, from 7 pm - 10 pm at The Green [...]
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The Expansion of Ignorance is Inevitable
El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
In The Omnivore’s Dilema Michael Pollan reminds us that food is an inelastic good, which is to say that, obesity aside, there is a limit to how many calories a person can consume in a single day. Any more and we would explode. Once we all reach that caloric daily limit then the food industry [...]
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When we don't have answers... We shout...
John's World (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
When we don't have answers... We shout. Urban Lehner at DTN , who pens thoughtful posts, took some flack for interviewing Michael Pollan. He cautiously offers a defense. "Everyone already knows what Pollan thinks," I hear someone bellowing. Do they? How many producers and agribusiness people have read "The Omnivore's Dilemma," Pollan's seminal book? Dan...
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The WaPo serves up a food-politics column
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Ezra Klein“Edible Media” takes an occasional look at interesting or deplorable food journalism on the web.Welcome to the table, Ezra Klein When I first started writing about food politics in 2005, the topic area was highly stratified—and still a little obscure. There was Eric Schlosser’s groundbreaking Fast Food Nation (2001) illuminating the topic and pointing to new avenues of inquiry; you had Michael...
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The myth of cheap food
Simpleprop.Com (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
Along the lines of a couple of books by Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food & The Omnivore’s Dilemma) that I’ve been reading lately, here is a opinion article from the Strib that caught my eye. The myth of cheap food.
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Sarah Newman: I Saw Food, Inc. Now What?
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
... Center for Foodborne Illness, Research and Prevention. 4. How can I get in touch with Michael Pollan? Yes, he's a hot commodity right now, but you can chat with him! There will be live-chat with him this Thursday at 3PM PST on Facebook. Click here for details. 5. I didn't see Food, Inc. When is it coming to my town? We're constantly adding new cities and theaters, but if yours isn't...
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Transitioning Home
Isak (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
... today the public is ravenous for farmer's markets, CSAs , for the words and work of Will Allen , Michael Pollan , Alice Waters , our local farmers and gardeners, our kids . We are changing our spaces, our cities, our yards, our roofs, our windowsills. We are asking each other advice on how to collect rainwater, what to plant to attract pollinating bees, and how to best use compost....
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Books from June
Chappysmom (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
... want to know what’s in that Cup O’Delight! 8. A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan (301 p.) A charming book about the author building his own “hut” to use as an office when his son is born. Bits and tidbits about architecture and construction, and wholly entertaining. I don’t know what it is about this little mini-niche-genre, but I just love reading...
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Food Inc. is Hungry For Change
DietsInReview.com Diet Blog (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
... bodies, the FDA and USDA . The movie, which features interviews with In Defense of Food author Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser of Fast Food Nation, is more than just a jaw-dropping expose that graphically shows our food travels from farm (or machine) to fork, but it also motivates all of us to think twice before we order a hot dog at the baseball stadium, grab a box of sugar corn...