Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, discusses the health dangers that industrial food has given us. Are there health dangers with food from small farms? Certainly risks exist. But they’re not big news, because when they do occur, they are localized and not a national threat.
Posts Tagged ‘industrial food’
Who Decides What Potatoes You Eat?
(Svadilfari photo.) Who gets to decide what food you eat? In the case of potatoes, it’s McDonalds. Says AP: Because McDonald’s buys more than 3.4 billion pounds of U.S. potatoes annually, it has the power to dictate whether a variety sprouts or winds up in the less-lucrative supermarket freezer’s crinklecut bin — or worse yet, [...]
Five Multinational Corporations Supply Our Food
“Food, Inc. is an eye-opening expose of the modern food industry… where nearly all of the food provided to us in the US comes from five multinational corporations.” –Jane Cavalier, reviewing Food Inc. in The Cheese Enthusiast. Check out the movie’s website here.
Ken Meter on Building a Local Food Economy
“In my mind, what a food system ought to do and what a strong one would accomplish is to really give us very healthy food that we know the source of. And it should help us build wealth in our communities. It should also help us connect with each other, as people who learn what [...]
Time Gets Real
(Euclid Van der Kroew photo: Farm equipment burried by the dust bowl, c. 1935.) “Unless Americans radically rethink the way they grow and consume food, they face a future of eroded farmland, hollowed-out countryside, scarier germs, higher health costs — and bland taste. Sustainable food has an élitist reputation, but each of us depends on [...]
Why Eat Local Food?
What’s the big deal about eating locally-produced food? Why not run down to Wal-Mart and buy a necatrine from Chile or a bottle of water from France? The reasons are many– even when it seems to cost more to buy some locally-produced food than industrially-produced food, it’s still a good idea. First and most important, [...]
