Farmer in Chief By MICHAEL POLLAN

October 12, 2008 New York Times Magazine The Food Issue Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food policy is not something American presidents have had to give much [...]

We Throw Away Half Our Food

How absurd is this? Enough to post the entire article here. Starvation? Why? “We throw away half our food. Up to half of all food is still wasted due to overly strict sell-by dates and the refusal of supermarkets to sell produce which doesn’t look cosmetically perfect, a new report claims. Up to half of [...]

The City that Ended Hunger

“To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer.” (CITY OF BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL) Half of the human population around the world now lives in cities with more and more people becoming urbanized every day. As cities become the dominant [...]

Commodity

When a product enters the marketplace it is doomed to be bandied about, prodded, poked and eventually, if it is a “valuable” commodity, confiscated, manipulated, packaged, politicized, corporatized, chained to will o the wisp market forces and forever relegated to the dungeon of the landfill, what’s left of it. The pharaohs of agri-commerce will save [...]

Plant of the Month: Dandelion

The Ubiquitous Dandelion Dandelion. The thesaurus does not list this word as a synonym for ubiquitous. I guess Roget did not have to mow his front lawn every week. Or maybe he did, but refused to allow this ubiquitous “pest” into his treasure house of words and phrases. Dandelion. Dent-de-lion. “Lion’s tooth”. Bright little suns [...]

Americans Toss Out As Much As 40% of Their Food, Study Says

Forget the drought, or food prices, or shopping “organic”, or buying local. This is just plain sick. The least anyone could do is compost it. Or better yet, eat it. It is obvious that when we grow our own we have a bit more respect than this. Buy and throw away, buy and throw away, [...]