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

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 134
  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 ...
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• Botany of Desire Left me Wanting More

  
  Chicago Garden — Authority: 414
  Last week, like many gardeners, I sat down to watch the Botany of Desire documentary on PBS. Not having read Michael Pollans book I wasnt sure what to expect, but I was expecting a lot because it was so heavily hyped among blogs and Twitter accounts I follow. My first reaction to the two-hour-long documentary was ...
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• Eating his words: Michael Pollan retracts Hummer-vegan/Prius-meat-eater comment

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 696
  Filed under: Hybrid , HUMMER , Toyota , Green Daily Want to give your public pronouncement a little zing? Try throwing in the words Hummer and Prius and imply that the SUV is better for the earth than the Prius. CNW sure knows the value of making the false claim . Last week, author Michael Pollan tried a ...
  2 weeks ago

• People (Not) Eating Tasty Animals

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  Natalie Portman has been a vegetarian for twenty years, but was recently inspired to become a vegan by Jonathan Safran Foer s first nonfiction book, Eating Animals . Portman wrote an essay for the Huffington Post in which she compares the book favorably to Michael Pollans The Omnivores Dilemma ( previously ...
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• The Botany of Desire Documentary

  
  Chicago Garden — Authority: 414
  WTTW 11 will be airing The Botany of Desire , a two-hour documentary, based on the book by Michael Pollan on Wednesday October 28, 2009. The narrator, in the PBS preview released on YouTube, describes the plants being highlighted as; "Four plants that have traveled the road to success by satisfying human ...
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• Michael Pollan Meets With Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  .tungls Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Michael Pollan met with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer today to discuss New York City’s plans to establish a sustainable food system, and while I don’t yet know the full skinny on how the conversation went, I can assure you the meeting will bode well for ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Bum Steer: Big Beef Throws Its Weight Around at Cal Poly

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 814
  Filed under: Environment , Education , Woman Up , Culture Big Beef has a bone to pick with Michael Pollan. And who can blame it? After all, Pollan, a professor of journalism at University of California at Berkeley and a critic of industrial agriculture, almost got away with delivering a lecture last week ...
  3 weeks ago

• Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire on PBS (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  selma90s Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Michael Pollan has been awfully busy these days, and in addition to the new Omnivore’s Dilemma for Kids (out now!), his upcoming Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual , and a live online chat last week, PBS will soon premiere The Botany of Desire ,  a television ...
  3 weeks ago

• Since When Is Cooking at Home Elitist?

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 814
  Filed under: Woman Up , Culture Speaking of wise eating , Michelle, Sundays New York Times magazine was full of advice on this issue, and the response in the blogosphere was not all friendly. In fact, it tended toward either extreme, kind of the way our American eating habits (binge/starve; fast ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cloudy With a Likelihood of Obesity

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 814
  Filed under: Woman Up So weve established that obesity is a super-sized health problem for Americans. According to a study published in July, the obesity rates have increased in 23 states and declined in none. What kind of danger does this pose for both adults and children? And what can we to do about it?   ...
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• Michael Pollan’s Dietary Rules To Eat By

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 134
  Rules to live by in the New York Times The New York Times devotes an entire issue of the magazine to food, and of course, Michael Pollan has a place on the menu. He takes our our beloved KFC double down sandwich , Froot Loops being a smart choice, and how science often gets it wrong (as he insists about margarine). He ...
  4 weeks ago

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