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By: The Worsted Witch » You Are What You Grow

The Worsted Witch » You Are What You Grow — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:54:54 +0000

[...] Related articles: 1. Unhappy Meals 2. The Vegetable-Industrial Complex 3. Wake up, America! 4. Michael Pollan Vs. Whole Foods 5. The School Lunch Test [...]

By: The Worsted Witch » Unhappy Meals

The Worsted Witch » Unhappy Meals — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:38:54 +0000

[...] Related articles: 1. Michael Pollan vs. Whole Foods 2. Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children 3. World’s Healthiest Foods [...]

By: The Worsted Witch » Unhappy Meals

The Worsted Witch » Unhappy Meals — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:38:53 +0000

[...] Related articles: 1. Michael Pollan vs. Whole Foods 2. Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children 3. World’s Healthiest Foods [...]

By: The Worsted Witch » The Vegetable-Industrial Complex

The Worsted Witch » The Vegetable-Industrial Complex — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:01:46 +0000

[...] Michael Pollan writes in today’s New York Times Magazine about “bad spinach the government will only make worse.” If bagged salad greens are vulnerable to bacterial contamination on such a scale, industry and government would very soon come looking for a technological fix; any day now, calls to irradiate the entire food supply will be on a great many official lips. That’s exactly what happened a few years ago when we learned that E. coli from cattle feces was winding up in American hamburgers. Rather than clean up the kill floor and the feedlot diet, some meat processors simply started nuking the meat—sterilizing the manure, in other words, rather than removing it from our food. Why? Because it’s easier to find a technological fix than to address the root cause of such a problem. This has always been the genius of industrial capitalism—to take its failings and turn them into exciting new business opportunities. [...]

By: The Worsted Witch » Wake Up, America!

The Worsted Witch » Wake Up, America! — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:09:27 +0000

[...] Green LA Girl breaks down the magazine’s feature, “One Thing to Do About Food,” which features thoughtful mastications from our top food and nutrition advocates, including Marion Nestle and Michael Pollan. [...]

By: mim

mim — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:54:43 +0000

oooo…I just got back from visting my foks in Omaha…..home to the most gigantanormous Whole Foods I have ever seen…..3-4 times the size of our local store. Egads, after reading teh rebuttals and back and forths, I still shake my head over WF lack of attention to right sizing. there seems to be a focus on unsustainable, immediate gratification, feel good ethos adn little or no attention to waste. My dad mentioned Whole Foods has not turned a profit in 6 quarters…..probably due to expansion, but I would not see them as being a viable long term option because their underlying philosphy still seems rooted in ” we can have it all!” not think global , act local.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:17:10 +0000

Oooo! Let me know how that is. Vegetarianism (much to my horror and, of course, painful Catholic guilt-tripping as well) seems to be not working out so great for me, and because of my small stature I wonder if meat cravings aren’t a sign I’m about to drop down dead. Michael Pollan’s first book blew my mind, and I’ve got high hopes for this one. Maybe I’ll even try to get CB to read it…