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| 11/16/09 |
Just “Say No” to Bogus Health Tips
There’s a lot of spurious scaremongering being passed around as fact (see CSPI), but sometimes one claim really sticks out. That’s the case with a health column in yesterday’s Star Tribune, in which readers are...
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| 11/11/09 |
No Cranberries in Texas? No Lobster in Colorado? Blame the ‘Locavores.’
Researchers at MIT and Columbia University believe the answer to the so-called obesity “epidemic” lies in getting Americans to eat more regional food. So they’re outlining different “foodsheds” that we should all be relying on...
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| 9/29/09 |
The Locavore’s New Clothes?
Author James McWilliams has stirred the pot with his new book Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. In it, he takes on some of the fundamentalist foodies’...
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| 9/24/09 |
Feeding the Future World
In case you missed it, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced important news yesterday. According to FAO, by 2050 the world will need 70 percent more food (compared to what we produce today)...
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| 9/17/09 |
Come on Down to the Farmers Market (Bring Your Wallet and Your Food Orthodoxy)
In the mood for a bacon-gouda scone? A $5 pint of raspberries? Some $11-per-pound pork chops? How about the $4 bunch of parsnips? Well, you’re in luck: First Lady Michelle Obama has just cut the...
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| 9/14/09 |
Norman Borlaug, R.I.P.
We read with sadness that Norman Borlaug, leader of the Green Revolution, passed away yesterday. Borlaug, called “the man who fed the world,” helped develop genetically modified organisms and spread the technology in impoverished Third...
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| 9/10/09 |
Michael Pollan’s Fuzzy Math
Food writer Michael Pollan’s culinary dogma holds that the science is sketchy when it comes to food and nutrition. He typically counsels readers to make their food decisions based on politics—not on what their bodies...
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| 9/1/09 |
“Warning: This Crumb May Not Be Harmful to Your Health”
We come across a lot of silly proposals around here (see also: PETA ads), but sometimes we find something that just takes the cake. Today, it’s a sign at a Vancouver grocery store that reads: “Dear...
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| 8/24/09 |
TIME Out of Bounds on Agriculture Reporting
TIME reporter Bryan Walsh took a cue from his friends behind Food, Inc. and hyped an impending food crisis in this week’s magazine cover story. But if you’re looking for the real story about agriculture,...
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| 7/29/09 |
Organic Mythology Busted. Again.
Worshippers at the organic-only food altar have been claiming for years, despite bushels of evidence to the contrary, that their precious “natural” fruits, veggies, and meat are healthier than “normal” crops. (You know, inorganic food.) But BBC News reports on a landmark scientific review published today,...
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| 7/20/09 |
Organic, Natural; Tomato, Tomahto?
Earlier this month, we remarked that it’s difficult to see how labeling everything on our menus and in our grocery aisles will make anyone safer or healthier. But as recent Chicago Tribune article highlighted, the food labeling craze...
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| 7/17/09 |
Lessons From Food History
This May, bestselling author Mark Kurlansky published a collection of recipes and food writings from the Great Depression Era called The Food of a Younger Land. More than one reviewer has remarked with utter amazement how...
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| 7/7/09 |
Food Propaganda, Inc.
Gourmet activists are still buzzing about this summer’s food industry “exposé,” Food, Inc. But although most Americans agree that we should all learn about where our food comes from, Robert Kenner’s agitprop documentary isn’t the...
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| 7/6/09 |
Labels For Labels’ Sake?
As two Washington Post reporters explained on Friday, there was a campaign a few years ago to ban omega-3 supplements from organic baby food because the fatty acids weren’t “natural” enough. Fortunately, it failed --...
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| 6/5/09 |
Food Inc.: Same Old Complaints, No New Solutions
At the New York premiere of the new documentary Food Inc. last night, a panel of celebrity activists agreed: “We’re in a moment.” After years of taking culinary convenience and affordable food for granted...
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| 5/21/09 |
Quote of the Week: Celebrity Chef Edition
“I think people are concerned with what they’re eating,” declared activist chef Alice Waters at a recent Connecticut Forum. “And a lot has to do with celebrity chefs who have brought attention to food.” She’s...
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| 5/8/09 |
Quote of the Week: The Truth About ‘Lousy Hippie’ Food
Yesterday’s Chicago Tribune included a highly unusual food column. It was an ode, of sorts, to the tofu-and-organic-veggie set of restaurants in the Greater Chicago area. But its distinguishing characteristic wasn’t the subject matter. It was...
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| 4/17/09 |
Quote of the Week
Meghan Cox Gurdon, who reviews children’s books for The Wall Street Journal, has noticed a startling trend in the environmental messages bombarding America’s children: They’re not just about the environment anymore. “Eco-propaganda” that wallpapers schools...
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| 3/10/09 |
Ten Food Rules For Michael Pollan
Yesterday on the New York Times health blog, food writer Michael Pollan asked readers for a few new food rules that everyone should try to live by. For too long, he declared, people have “deferred...
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| 3/5/09 |
'Heirloom Arugula Won’t Save Us'
Seeing that sentence in the new issue of Mother Jones magazine had us doing one of the biggest double-takes ever. Mother Jones – the preferred glossy of anti-burger activists and mercury scaremongers everywhere – is...
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