Michael Pollan

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• michael pollan recommends

  
  the irresistible fleet of bicycles — Authority: 136
  making your own food. Instead of just watching other people make the food on television. We think probably we should all learn how to make other things as well. Such as buttons Or OUR future. We’ll have to learn to make that as well. Posted in relevant youtube Tagged: Michael Pollan
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• Healing People & Honoring Creation: Joel Salatin on Sustainable Agriculture

  
  zoecarnate — Authority: 532
  I was pleased to open up my copy of Sojourners this month and see an interview with one of my heroes, Joel Salain , founder of Polyface Farms .  Some sweet excerpts:   Jeannie Choi: What’s the vision behind Polyface farm? Joel Salatin: Healing—healing in all dimensions. We want to develop emotionally, ...
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• Spending Less on Food, Spending More on Health Care

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  As the health-care bill passes through Congress, one wonders about an issue that has been left out of discussions.  No, not abortion.  Food.  How much is what we eat linked to what we spend on health care? First, consider the costs. …
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer: Mau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 131
  By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Back in 1990, when a scholar named Carol J. Adams published “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory,” it was nominated for the Diagram Prize, an annual award given to the book with the most inherently ludicrous title. It’s coming back into print next March, and ...
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• Mau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 131
  By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Back in 1990, when a scholar named Carol J. Adams published “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory,” it was nominated for the Diagram Prize, an annual award given to the book with the most inherently ludicrous title. It’s coming back into print next March, and ...
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• The Locavore’s Dilemma: What We Eat is More Than Just a Personal Choice

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  I’m a cradle vegetarian. Didn’t have even a bite of meat — red or white, fish or fowl — until I was maybe eleven years old, and then I lost my dietary virginity to a hot dog. Go ahead and…
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• Healthy Monday: “Eating Animals” Enlivens Issues

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 509
  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 ...
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• #2 Article

  
  Miorganicsyes — Authority: 119
   Michael Pollan’s site I have been thinking a lot about the food I eat (and feed my family) and the products I put on my skin (and share with my family). These two areas connect and inter-connect in my mind quite often.  There have been many changes I have made over the years to bring in food and products ...
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• Week Four: Stats and Results

  
  Knit. Run. Repeat. — Authority: 122
  Setting goals is helpful, but it depends – of course – on the goal.A pie-in-the-sky goal of losing X pounds in a week is (for me, anyway) doomed to fail. If I have a goal like that in the back of my mind, I almost always will do something to sabotage my bad self and then blame my lack of progress on ...
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• A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do

  
  Science & Soul — 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 ...
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• why I haven’t been sick in nearly six years: hint, it’s my diet!

  
  Felicia C. Sullivan — Authority: 132
  Note: As I relayed in the video, my experience should inspire you to think about the choices you make in relation to food. After I elected to really examine what I was putting into my body, my world really opened up. However, please discuss all diet modifications and lifestyle changes with your doctor.Recommended [...]
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• Book Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma

  
  JerseySmarts.com — Authority: 132
  Sometimes I buy a a book and it takes me forever to read the thing. Not because it’s a bad book, but rather because I sometimes just don’t have the time to sit down and read! That’s what happened to me with The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. I bought this book ...
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• 7 Healthy Foods That Will Fill You Up and Prevent Overeating

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  David A. Kessler, the author of “The End of Overeating”, explains very well how people become addicted to foods that are high in sugar, fat and salt. Like addiction does, this causes people to crave so they eat more and more foods that are loaded with unhealthy ingredients and many times, completely devoid of ...
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• Intelligent dissent on the food movement

  
  A Thinking Reed — Authority: 422
  I’m obviously sympathetic to a lot of the proposals of Michael Pollan, et al., but some of what passes for criticism of our system of food production can come across as simplistic, naive, or nostalgic. That’s why I was happy to discover the blog of historian and author Maureen Ogle who, among other things, ...
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• Getting back to the (organic) garden

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 548
  Chard grown at Washington University by Burning Kumquat, a student-run organic gardening collective. Photo courtesy Burning Kumquat. Nearly three years ago, I started to get serious about applying my spiritual philosophy to my food choices. I’ve slipped a little lately, and am hoping to get serious again with the ...
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• Michael Pollan: “What’s in the beef?”

  
  Commodity Corner — Authority: 118
  Photo by Kris Krüg Where does your burger come from? Journalist and food writer Michael Pollan has traced back the source of much of what we eat, and says that the ultimate answer is oil. Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma , argues that it takes massive amounts of petroleum-derived fertilizers and ...
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• Food Inc. Blu-Ray: If You Care About Your Body, Then You’ll Care About This Film

  
  PopCultureShock :: Comics : Games : Movies : Lifestyle — Authority: 152
  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 ...
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• The Real Price of Cheap Food

  
  Everyday Justice — Authority: 450
  Reposted from Alternet – Award-winning food journalist Michael Pollan was invited to speak on October 15 at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo but after pressure from a university donor who is chairman of the Harris Ranch Beef Co., the university changed his speech to a panel discussion. ...
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• Michael Pollan on what kids should eat

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 484
  Michael Pollan laid out his views about how we raise, harvest or kill, and eat, our food in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma . Now he’s written The Omnivore’s Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat . In this moment with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer , Pollan offers his recommendations for young ...
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