Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eat Me. You might possibly, perhaps be doing something good for the environment. Credit: Ethicurean Last week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled " The Carnivore's Dilemma "--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenhouse gasses (not least amongst these voices is Michael Pollan,...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Unlike the architect whose house has a perpetually leaking roof, or the cobbler whose shoes need mending, Michael Pollan has a new garden that speaks of a professional who practices what he preaches. For the author and journalism professor - who has almost single-handedly set the national agenda on food production and, in books such as "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food,"...
The Green Changemakers (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... says Michael Pollan, bestselling author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto and The Omnivore's Dilemma. "Now the Center for Ecoliteracy's invaluable teacher's guide will help to bring that conversation into the classroom." The 102-page guide provides questions and activities about the film's themes, including health, sustainability, animal welfare, and workers' rights....
Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... control. Game on. PG. 1 hour, 26 minutes. You are what you eat Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and Eric Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation," team up in the documentary "Food, Inc." They give viewers a sober and unflattering look at corporate food production. PG. 1 hour, 34 minutes.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... (1-4) of 4 Page: Julia Thu 11/05/09 5:10 PMI can’t wait to rent Food, Inc. I recently read The Omnivore’s Dilemma and it has opened my eyes to the food industry. Everyone should see this! shawshank Thu 11/05/09 5:21 PMFast Food Nation and Animal Vegetable Miracle are superior eye-opening books to Omnivore’s Dilemma. Aaron (@Aaronisthinking) Thu 11/05/09 5:24 PMI had...
La Vida Locavore - Front Page (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Last night I had the great privilege to see and hear two of the most influential and inspiring figures in the sustainable food movement in conversation. While Michael Pollan has become a household name through books like Omnivore's Dilemma, and most recently, films like Food Inc. and The Botany of Desire , he took the interviewer's seat and gave the stage to a man who has touched so many...
Chelsea Green (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Could the Founding Fathers have envisioned a day when it was illegal for a man to milk his own cows and sell the milk to his neighbors? It probably never even crossed their minds. Author Joel Salatin, the “Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatic farmer” who appeared in the documentary Food, Inc. and was profiled in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma,...
Fingertips (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... of reading, I can also recommend The Ethical Gourmet by Jay Weinstein, In Defense of Food and Omnivore's Dilemma both by Michael Pollan, and the very first book I read on the politics of food back in the 1990s: Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe. tags: massage massagetherapy wellness massage therapy bodywork health
State Journal Featured Content (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... the first film starting at 7 p.m. Salatin also is featured in Michael Pollan's 2006 book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals," and is himself an author. His most recent book, "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front," debuted two years ago. "Joel Salatin is a very dynamic speaker and a lot of people in the area are excited about...
King Politics (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Fast food has taken a public relations beating the last several years. One of the best books I'v read in the last ten years was Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation . It exposes the fast food industry as a deceitful, unhealthy, fattening world of profits. Then there was Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me , a cheeky expose of what an all-Mickey D's diet will do to you. Then there's Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's...
The Amateur Gourmet (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... as such, there's a good chance that that chicken isn't very free at all. In Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" (which is basically the Bible on this subject), Pollan goes to visit some "organic, free-range" birds and writes: "Compared to conventional chickens, I was told, these organic birds have it pretty good: They get a few more square inches of living space per bird (though...
Serious Eats (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... with Pollan hubbub—earlier this summer it was Washington State University. WSU chose Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma as the book of choice for the all freshmen common reading program. Then, citing budget woes (even though 4,000 books had already been purchased) the university chose to suspend the program. However, some sources said it just wasn't so and that the university had caved...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... to a number of authors, including Eric Schlosser ( Fast Food Nation ) and Michael Pollan ( The Omnivore’s Dilemma , In Defense of Food ), people have slowly started to take a more active role in what they eat. But book sales being what they are, a movie about the ugly underbelly of agribusiness is probably a more effective educational tool. Enter Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc. , which...
Chefdruck Musings (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... Schlosser ( Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal ) and Michael Pollan ( The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals ) to interview farmers, families, and food experts to explain all of the issues surrounding our food supply today in simple and impactful terms. You'll learn that McDonald's is the largest purchaser of beef and potatoes in the world. You'll...
Egregious Blunders, et cetera. (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... the bulk of our food is processed endlessly before arriving on our table. I'm still reading The Omnivore's Dilemma , which is one of the best pieces of non-fiction that I have encountered, and it is a look into this same topic. The other is Is Anybody There? with Michael Caine, who I adore. I've heard amazing things about it, and it promises to be an emotional experience. If you are...
