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  • Healthy Monday: “Eating Animals” Enlivens Issues


    Green Fork BlogAuthority Authority: 508
    Green Fork blogger Kerry Trueman landed an exclusive interview with author Jonathan Safran Foer for our friends at Healthy Monday . Check it out! Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book Eating Animals is a thorough look at the ethical and environmental quandaries posed by America’s appetite for meat. His wish is to ...
    2 weeks ago
  • A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do


    Science & SoulAuthority Authority: 104
    I’m all ranted out for now, so I shall bring this series to a close.  I have hinted at a number of things we, the average consumer, can do to improve the system.  So, to finish off the series, I am posting a list created by a professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Richard Andrus, which I think is completely ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Food Inc. Blu-Ray: If You Care About Your Body, Then You’ll Care About This Film


    PopCultureShock :: Comics : Games : Movies : LifestyleAuthority Authority: 151
    Year: 2008 Running Time: 91 minutes Rated: PG SRP: $34.98 Studio(s): Magnolia Home Entertainment Release Date: November 3, 2008 Film/Feature: A+ The arrival of the golden arches signaled a change that farmers had to produce food fast and cheap. Once the demand was in place, so too did the system arrive that would ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Food, INC.!!!


    The Billionty-Oneth GeekAuthority Authority: 120
    When I first read Eric Schlossers Fast Food Nation , the stories he told of the fast food industry made me so disgusted that it threw me off of fast food for a good 3 or 4 months. So it was with some trepidation when I watched in Food, Inc . knowing that Schlosser had produced it... because... well I just couldnt go ...
    3 weeks ago
  • A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues


    Science & SoulAuthority Authority: 104
    You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Food Inc. message still resonates


    mavenandmeddlerAuthority Authority: 131
    My pre-ordered copy of the DVD ‘Food Inc’ - Eric Shlosser and Michael Pollan’s powerful indictment of the factory farmed, laboratory concocted horror generally regarded as ‘food’ in America came today. Natacha hadn’t seen it and is still sitting out there watching in disgust. Like so much else in ...
    3 weeks ago
  • This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: November 3, 2009


    FilmCrunchAuthority Authority: 435
    Here are some of the DVD and Blu-ray options available this Tuesday: Aliens in the Attic : DVD, Blu-ray The Answer Man : DVD, Blu-ray The Dead : DVD Food, Inc. : DVD, Blu-ray Forrest Gump : Blu-ray G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra : DVD, Blu-ray Howards End : Blu-ray I Love You, Beth Cooper ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Blu-ray Review: “Food, Inc.”


    PopdoseAuthority Authority: 619
    How much thought do you put into your food? Not long ago, buying food was a much more involved process — people had relationships with their butchers and grocers, they had a sense of which foods were in season during different times of the year, and no once celebrated their birthday by going to On the Border and ...
    3 weeks ago
  • A Strange System: Food: Blue Baby Blues


    Science & SoulAuthority Authority: 104
    Time to get back on the horse after a week of midterms. Nitrogen was the primary limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems.  Nitrogen levels could be increased by using composted organic material, but that took a long period of time and was hard work.  Keep that in mind.  World War II is raging and ammonia is ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Food, Inc. (Official Trailer)


    Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)Authority Authority: 434
    tags: Food, Inc. , food industry , factory farming , health , documentary , film , movie trailer , Eric Schlosser , streaming video This is the official trailer for a 2008 documentary based on Eric Schlossers research (Supersize Me!). It identifies, describes and details the problems of the food ...
    5 weeks ago
  • A Strange System: Food: Too Corny


    Science & SoulAuthority Authority: 104
    Too Corny Corn is a wonderful vegetable.  Admittedly, the stuff we consider corn is actually maize, but I’m not here to argue semantics.  The kernel of maize is a mature ovary of fruit fused with a seed coat.  Corn can be eaten raw, cooked, or ground into flour for bread.  Good stuff this corn.  Perhaps ...
    5 weeks ago

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