Physician, Heal ThySelf

There’s a pathological impulse that leads to excessive complaining about the personal details of one’s life on the internet. Somehow, it’s a natural forum. I’m bravely attempting to spare you all that. So I’ll only mention briefly my recent carpal tunnel surgery, the resulting discomfort, complications and three week limit on [...]

A CA bill would increase the number of farmers markets that take food stamps. And it’s already passed CA’s state assembly. Ditto for Illinois’ HB4756 (The Farmers Market Technology Improvement Program Act), which passed the IL House almost unanimously.

Rep. Rush Holt introduced a Farm to School bill, H.R. 4710. Check out this YouTube video of [...]

by David Roberts
The new HBO show How to Make It In America is pretty good, but by far the best thing about it is the opening credit sequence. When I first saw it I thought it was soundtracked with a particularly righteous soul song from the ‘70s, maybe a Bill Withers b-side dug out [...]

In last week’s post, I applauded Mercy for Animals for uncovering animal abuse at Willet Dairy and bemoaned the lack of official action resulting from it. This week I’d like to discuss another Mercy for Animals video, in a not quite as flattering light.
 This one covers a pig producer in Pennsylvania, one of the hundred [...]

Welcome to yet another Fight Back Friday! Today we’re bringing together another collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution.
Who are they? Why, they’re the Food Renegades. You know who you are — lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food, the [...]

Just Saying No to GMOs Over 200,000 voiced their opposition to genetically modified alfalfa during the USDA comment period, which ended Wednesday.
Not So Dynamite After All In what he described as perhaps his most important blog post ever, Tom Philpott lays out the problems with synthetic nitrogen.
This Doesn’t Sound Any Better The city of San [...]

Results contradict USDA’s position that consumers don’t care
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Technological dinosaur that I am, I didn’t realize that the RSS didn’t automatically transfer when this site moved to www.foodpolitics.com.  Please come visit the new site, resubscribe to RSS, and take a look at what I’ve posted since January 11.  And please forgive.

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I just spent an invigorating 2 days in Washington DC at the Drake Forum, a gathering intended to “identify innovative policies and projects at the federal, state, and local levels to support new and beginning farmers.” Right now the average age of the American farmer is 57, a statistic we bandy about without [...]

If you even know of Somerville, Massachusetts, a densely populated little city often overlooked by out-of-towners who, when they venture across the river from Boston, flock to our more collegiate neighbor, it’s unlikely that you conceive of it as a center of chocolate revolution.
But in this town noted for its historical rebellions, in the shadow [...]