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• Michael Pollan on what kids should eat

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 482
  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 ...
  10 hours ago

• Despite Censorship By Beef Magnate, Michael Pollan Spreads Message About the Real Price of Cheap Food

  
  Our Beloved Earth — Authority: 129
  Despite Censorship By Beef Magnate, Michael Pollan Spreads Message About the Real Price of Cheap FoodBy , AlterNetNovember 9, 2009 Link to full article belowAward-winning food journalist Michael Pollan was invited to speak on October 15 at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo but after pressure ...
  15 hours ago

• Ahem.

  
  Knit. Run. Repeat. — Authority: 120
  Im not terribly worried about my results last week. Weight fluctuates from day to day; Sunday morning it looked like I was going to be able to report a loss, but I officially weigh in on Monday, so thats what I had to go with.Ive taken a few breaks over time, but for the past, oh, 10 years or so Ive been trying to ...
  16 hours ago

• Eating Less Requires Training

  
  Green Options — Authority: 147
  “ Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants ,” says Michael Pollan. While I’m pretty good at eating real, non-processed food and basing my diet on plants, I struggle with the “not too much” part. I love food. I probably love it a little too much. Although I’m very active, I carry around 10-20 extra pounds ...
  1 day ago

• Natalie Portman: Meat’s a Sin, Free Polanski

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 815
  Natalie Portman is a vegetarian – a vegan, to be precise – and she thinks you should be one too. At least, that’s the impression I get from her article at the Huffington Post . In fact, she really goes so far as to infer that those of us who eat animals or animal products are inhumane beasts. Apparently, ...
  1 day ago

• Botany of Desire - bonus video

  
  Garden Fresh Living — Authority: 113
  I dont know how many of you saw The Botany of Desire on PBS, but it was fabulous. It is based on the book by Michael Pollan.If you missed it, you can watch the full-length program HERE. You can also...
  1 day ago

• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 108
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Tell Obama to Remove “Big Agriculture” from the USDA

  
  JerseySmarts.com — Authority: 427
  Hey, I know that I hoot and holler a lot about our country getting a better, more sustainable food supply. For those of you that are bothered by this, I’m sorry but it’s one of the things that I feel strongly about these days. I really believe that our countrymen have been put in a bad way because of a lousy ...
  2 days ago

• Stewed Dog Is Delicious: The Carnivore’s Conundrum

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 483
  Every girl you know with a septum piercing and a thing for Jews hightailed her androgynous-footwear to the Multicultural Center Friday night with a single hope: to get extremely loud and incredibly close with bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer. And his glasses. After a reading from his new non-fiction book, ...
  2 days ago

• Eleven Things You Could Do Instead Of Reading Jonathan Safran Foers Book About Not Eating Meat [Health Class]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  1. Eat a cheeseburger. 2. Eat some pork buns. 3. Eat some steak. 4. Eat some Greys Papaya. 5. Eat some wings. 6. Eat some tacos. Pork tacos. 7. Eat some bacon (but dont be obnoxious about...
  3 days ago

• Real Food 101: The How-To Basics.

  
  Fitness Advice, Workout Videos, Health & Fitness | Bodyrock.tv — Authority: 125
  Over the last few years, we’ve noticed big change happening in how lots of North Americans are looking at food. Instead of an incessant focus on individual ingredients, miracle supplements, and the latest food-science discoveries, a lot of people have been turning back towards a purposefully simple philosophy of ...
  3 days ago

• Vegetarian’s Rebuttal to ‘The Carnivore’s Dilemma’

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 141
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Michael Pollan’s plant’s-eye view

  
  Open Learning — Authority: 98
    Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, Botany of Desire , is now a film, and you can watch it online, courtesy of PBS . (Click to watch complete film.) The film takes you inside our relationship with the plant world, and shows “how four familiar species — the apple, the tulip, cannabis and the potato — ...
  4 days ago

• Food Fight

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 123
  by Eileen Weber Last night, the Wilton Library hosted a screening of the documentary Food Fight. Supported by the Fink Family Foundation and the green initiatives by the library community, the film is another look at how the food industry...
  4 days ago

• Elizabeth Kolbert - Should You Eat Meat?

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 441
  Interesting article from The New Yorker . Its essentially a review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals , which is a novel of the postmodern variety. Foer appears to be anti-meat for the most part, on moral grounds not ecological, but he concedes that humane meat eating is possible later in the ...
  5 days ago

• Simplifying the Omnivore’s Dilemma

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 443
  The author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma put together a list of eating rules for the New York Times. From 2,500 submissions made by his readers, Michael Pollan gleaned 20 . If I lob cheap laughs off the top, like “Don’t eat egg salad from a vending machine” and other home-spun wisdoms which help NYT editors ...
  6 days ago

• Food Inc. message still resonates

  
  mavenandmeddler — Authority: 129
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: November 3, 2009

  
  FilmCrunch — Authority: 480
  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 ...
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• Blu-ray Review: “Food, Inc.”

  
  Popdose — Authority: 620
  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 ...
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• NRDC Announces Second Annual Growing Green Awards

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 492
  The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has just announced its second annual Growing Green Awards for 2010. Do you know someone who has made extraordinary contributions to the sustainable food world? (And, I’m not sure being a good eater meets any of the criteria.) If you do, nominate them to be honored ...
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