Food is a microcosm of the macrocosm. Eating the right food is part of the solution to the problems of climate change and global hunger.(1)
Resurgence Magazine is focusing on Food this month.
I often find myself drawn to the subject of food…Not necessarily for reasons that would appear obvious. As a teenager I cut my proverbial [...]

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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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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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