BBC News: Eating meat is genetic, but omnivorousness is learned at home.
News Target: Corporations want us to think that processed food is normal, while whole and raw foods are “extreme”.
Time: Michael Pollan lists six rules for eating wisely. (My favorite is, “Don’t eat anything your great-great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”)
San Francisco Chronicle: BART retrofit may push out regional farmers from the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.
Time: Following Marion Nestle as she decodes the grocery store.
Idaho Statesman: Presidential “God Squad” recommends that sockeye salmon be allowed to go extinct. (The panel’s official title is “Independent Science Review Panel”.)
Time: Grass-fed beef is good for the planet. (Time seems to have a strong interest in “alternate” food for such a mainstream publication.)
In These Times: Is biofuel Green, and why are Big Agro corporations eager to embrace it?
KUOW Radio: KUOW interviews the author of The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine’. (Available after 3:05 PM PST.)
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