Alternet (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Pollan took on Big Ag and cheap food in a panel discussion, after the protests of a meat industry chairman led to his speech at a University being canceled.
Growing Edge (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Michael Pollan has really been in the news lately. His best selling book, Botany of Desire, was made into a PBS television documentary and broadcast at the end of October. He has had several feature interviews in The New York Times. In the Nov.-Jan. 2010 issue of Organic Gardening magazine, he is interviewed by editor [...]
Public Opinion (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
As Michael Pollan points out in The New York Times, our industrial food system is now characterized by monocultures of corn and soy in the field and cheap calories of fat, sugar and feedlot meat on the table. It has enabled an Australian to be able to go into a...
Eater SF (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Behind the bar at Tosca. [Photo: Flickr/noinput] · What's Michael Pollan Been up to Lately? [SE] · Oakland's Peerless Coffee Still a Hit [Chron] · Cookbooks: Mark Peel and Thomas Keller Both Do Homecooking [LAT] · Oakland Gets a...
Serious Eats (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Michael Pollan's been making some pretty big waves lately—in the media, at colleges, with farmers, and little tots. Time to check in on what he's been up to and what it all says about the state of green food today. [Photograph: Wikipedia] Drama at Two Universities In early October, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo downgraded a scheduled Pollan lecture because it received pressure from David...
Alice Q. Foodie (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... foods. I've heard Mark Bittman's personal system is to eat vegan for breakfast and lunch. Michael Pollan's tells us to "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants," and Jonathan Safran Foer has a new book out called "Eating Animals," wherein he says of my generation: "We are the ones who will be asked, what did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?"...
Atomic Librarian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... anyway. Dexter may not be a bad kid; he just has an annoying dad. It's nice to see others find Pollan sexist too. This interview with a scavenger is interesting-- although the interviewer should have pressed him more on the topics of safety and contamination. But in the end the argument fails because while I agree that if it grows, it should be picked and used (although those palm trees...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
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) | 07/11/2009
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...
The Incredible Adventures of Phoebe Dot (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... Parenting - Alfie Kohn Feeding the Whole Family - Cynthia Lair In Defence of Food - Michael Pollan Evie's Kitchen - Shazzie You Are Your Child's First Teacher - Rahima Baldwin Dancy (though i don't agree with all of it) Green and AP children's books - work in progressOn Mother's Lap - Ann Herbert Scott The Wonderful Place - Chrissy Butler My Brother Jimi Jazz - Chrissy Butler Hello Baby...
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 of...
Serious Eats (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
[Photograph: Leslie Kelly] Darlene Barnes would like author Michael Pollan to walk a mile in her tiny kitchen clogs. "It's all well and good for Michael Pollan to tell people how they should eat, but it's another to try and make it happen in the real world," she said. My boss at Alpha Sigma Phi at the University of Washington was in a bit of a snit after a frustrating effort...
JerseySmarts.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... that is based more on corn than on natural elements. Seriously, take a read of any of Michael Pollan’s books and you’ll understand how incredible this change has been and how it has effected us as a people. That’s why I joined the Food Democracy mailing list – so I could use whatever voice I have in this world to advocate on behalf of bringing our food system back to basics. Part of that...
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, [...]...
Blog Absolute Point (Free subscription) | yesterday
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