Tag Archives: Weekly digest

Favorites from February: LOVE the ripples created by Chipotle’s airing of their so-well-done “Back to the Start” ad during the grammys. Grist discusses: http://grist.org/factory-farms/ad-nauseum-did-chipotles-grammy-ad-scare-big-ag/ Check out Chemical Cuisine, new resource (and app) from the Center for Science in the Public … Continue reading →

Lots of action over the past two weeks. Enjoy: Congress blocks overhaul to school lunch program, meaning pizza still counts as a vegetable. Really says something about this country’s priorities… http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/us/politics/congress-blocks-new-rules-on-school-lunches.html?_r=2 Recap of Matthew Wise’s food startup meetup last week, … Continue reading →

Favorites from the past two weeks: An iPhone app to help you eat better? I just don’t really want to take pictures of everything I eat. Does anyone? http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/01/the-eatery-a-photo-app-that-promises-to-improve-your-health/ Soccer mom on a nutrition mission: Have we “programmed kids to … Continue reading →

Recent favorites. I absolutely LOVE the first item, a blog post from Tipsy Turnip. Worth reading. Awesome recap of a year eating organic at under $6 per day http://tipsyturnip.blogspot.com/2011/10/end-reflections-on-eating-fresh-local.html Is your Halloween candy is keeping the child slave trade in … Continue reading →

Highlights from the past two weeks: If you don’t have a Nature subscription, this Grist post gives a great summary on a new study showing we can feed 10 billion people without destroying the planet: http://www.grist.org/population/2011-10-13-we-can-feed-10-billion-of-us-study-finds-but-it-wont-be-easy Incubator farms provide training … Continue reading →

Back from my wedding and honeymoon and excited to kick off a new school year! Here are some of my favorite recent food articles and blog posts. Enjoy. Junk food isn’t really as cheap as it seems…. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all The social … Continue reading →

Running a bit late this week but hope you enjoy. I’ll be taking the next two weeks off for vacation, but hope to resume sharing my favorite food articles in late September. Anna Lappe strikes out at Nina Federoff’s New … Continue reading →

My favorites from the past week: Says Majora, “My goal now is to create accessible jobs in food production, so I look at all the levers out there, from USDA subsidies to foundation grants, slow capital, and, most importantly, the … Continue reading →

GOOD bashes the popular reasoning that farm subsidies create cheap unhealthy food, which fuels our obesity crisis. That’s what I had thought too.. http://www.good.is/post/the-inconvenient-truth-about-cheap-food-and-obesity-it-s-not-farm-subsidies/ This tidbit shows why our food system is broken “Over the course of a year, a … Continue reading →

Holy moly turkey recall. 36 million pounds. 76 illnesses. 1 death. Multi-drug resistant salmonella. Such a scary food system http://civileats.com/2011/08/04/cargill-recalls-36-million-pounds-of-ground-turkey/ People in the USA use 7M lbs of antibiotics per year. The US meat industry uses 29M lbs. And the … Continue reading →