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I missed this last Friday when it played on the local PBS station…It’s nice to be able to catch it later on the “intranets”…
Bill Moyers and Michael Pollan…What a pair. A very in-debth exploration of food policy in America ensued. Here is just a part…
BILL MOYERS: What else? Give me a list, quickly, [...]

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Leon Hale’s weekly column this morning reached back to before my birth…But, he touched a chord even so. The final lines though really rang true…
I guess what got me going on television is that just lately we installed a new set in the old country house at Winedale. One of those flat-screen jobs that everybody [...]

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This link is as much for me as it is for you few folks who read these daily musings.
Farmer in Chief

By MICHAEL POLLAN
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 [...]

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It just goes to show you, when the government doesn’t believe in regulations…Regulations go by the wayside and enforcement becomes mute…
Whole Foods Market pulled fresh ground beef from all of its stores Friday, becoming the latest retailer affected by an E. coli outbreak traced to Nebraska Beef, one of the nation’s largest meatpackers. It’s the [...]

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