New York Times*: Nutritionist Marion Nestle suggests that rather than banning trans fats in restaurant cooking oils, New York City ask chains to display calorie counts on menu boards. Would you order a venti Mocha with milk and whipped cream if you knew it contained 770 calories? (Thanks, Jack at Fork & Bottle!
Columbus Dispatch: Ohio is in the middle of a crackdown on raw-milk dairies, even those that operate through milk shares.
New York Times*: A purplishly-prose-y but nevertheless moving portrait of a dying breed of American farmer.
Chronogram (NY): Living la vida locavore is tough outside California. This writer begins a skeptic and ends up convinced that “we, as consumers, no longer have the luxury of eating for simply the sake of eating or mere sustenance. Food has become profoundly ethical, political, and economic by nature, and we are no longer eating for one, we eat for many.”
Davis Enterprise: UC Davis, a leader in agriculture education, has picked Michael Pollan’s “Omnivore’s Dilemma” for its annual Campus Community Book Project.
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