The Goods Are Odd

It’s great that I can choose to spend the extra money on Organic food, so that I don’t have any conventionally grown food available in my house and so that every penny I spend on food (which is a high percentage of all my pennies- more like 20%, versus the national average of 9%) But [...]

I have really been appreciating Michael Pollan’s recent tour circuit for his latest book Food Rules. With both The Daily Show and Oprah he has been hitting mainstream media with really important messages about food production and culture and is doing so is a way that is straight, truthful and ultimately seems easier for people [...]

As far as panel discussions go “Food for the Next Administration”, a panel put on by Agriculture in Metropolitan Regions, was a bit of a love-fest with leaders of food system reform. While this didn’t provide for a heated discussion they certainly covered intelligent ways of framing the principles of a healthy sustainable food system [...]

There is no doubt that improvements to American’s diet would make an impact on health. This includes reforming FDA recommendations to be more flexible to new findings on health. In a rational and healthy world there would be more reliance on whole low-tech food in reasonable portions to provide the basic foundation of wellbeing [...]