Why Michael Pollan is Wrong About Junk Food and Farm Subsidies
Michael Pollan blames farm subsidies for making junk food cheap. He’s wrong. Here’s why.
Michael Pollan
Food Evolution: The FAFDL Interview
Food Evolution film makers Scott Hamilton Kennedy and Trace Sheehan sit down with the Food and Farm Discussion Lab community for a free wheeling chat about making the film, the state of the GMO debate, and doing science communication well.
Berkeley 45 Duck Opportunities to Engage with Science, Defend Their Claims
Professor Kevin Folta challenges the Berkeley 45 to publicly engage on their claims that the documentary Food Evolution is a propaganda film. They refused.
How to Spot a Shockumentary: Food Edition
Dietitian and science communicator Leah McGrath lays down ten tell tale signs you are watching a food related shockumentary. Plus, we’ve got Shockumentary Bingo cards ready to print!
The Problem With Monoculture
Are monocultures the great evil the Michael Pollan and other say that are? What are the real problems with monocultures and what can be done about them?
Tales of a Recovering Pollanite
So I was a chef with left wing politics, a former union organizer and farm worker, and an armchair nutritionist when I started stumbling across various voices from the Food Movement some time around 2005. It’s hard to imagine someone better primed for a message of sustainable agriculture, grassroots activism, local economics, and low income community food security. Being a Massachusetts born union organizer who lived in cities but often worked in rural communities in the South has irrevocably scrambled my cultural allegiances in ways that would eventually play havoc with my loyalties in the debates the Food Movement had started. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
What Michael Pollan Gets Wrong About Big Ag
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In Defense of Michael Pollan and avoiding polysyllabic ingredients
It depends. In my post yesterday on the Chipotle backlash I wrote a bit about Foodbabe and Michael Pollan’s legacy. In the case of Foodbabe, […]