Michael Pollan was on The Colbert Report Thursday night, with a repeat that we caught on Friday.
[DQ says: The interview is available in Windows Media (WMV) format on Comedy Central’s site here, but Macs need a plug-in to view it and it’s jumpy even on a DSL connection.]
Perhaps the best part was when Colbert brought […]
“Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. ” That is the thinking beind the monolithic meat and potatoes food culture that marked my first dozen years. More than two dozen years later, I still approach certain new foods with caution and an excess of butter to tame their strange flavors. While it […]
A few more items from our lunchtime reading.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Going green is good for businesses. Perhaps business will lead our government and the consumers.
BBC: UN and World Conservation Union advocate marine protected areas to preserve ocean ecosystems and biodiversity.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Electric car exhibit removed from Smithsonian.
IMDB: Who Killed the Electric Car debuts next week. […]
What we’re reading (on our lunch breaks only, natch) and think you should, too:
Bob Herbert’s column yesterday in the New York Times (subscribers only, the bastards): Bob bemoans vile and disgusting labor practices at North Carolina’s Smithfield Packing Company, which processes 32,000 hogs a day. Herbert feels sorry for the workers, which is why he […]
Sing it with me now: I want my rBGH-free! OK, so it’s less catchy than the Dire Straits song, but whatever.
This special report from the Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility (via Organic Consumers Association) has some cheering news for those of us who prefer milk free of Monsanto’s synthetic hormones, the long-term effects of […]
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