In response to overwhelming demand, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism has moved the Feb. 27 event with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and writer Michael Pollan from 700-seat Wheeler Hall to the much grander Zellerbach Hall (2,000+ seats). The original tickets went on sale Feb. 1 and were gone in under two hours.
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More tickets for Mackey-Pollan talk now available
Canadians chew it better
Canada launched a new and improved edition of its food guide yesterday, our neighbor to the north’s version of the U.S. “food pyramid.” Theirs looks a bit less influenced by the meat and dairy associations than ours does. As reported in the National Post, Canadians should:
• Eat at least one dark green and one orange […]
Breastmilk battles: Pork Board down, Wal-Mart to go
Should you ever doubt the power of the blogosphere, just read this heartwarming tale of the blogger who got the National Pork Board to cry Oinkle.
Jennifer Laycock is an Ohio mom who promotes breastfeeding awareness and acceptance — or as she calls it, babies’ right to eat in public — on her blog the Lactivist. […]
Digest: Mad milk, farewell to cheap food, Monsanto files petition on soy
Department of Uh-Oh: A Swiss company has detected the presence of prion proteins in cows’ milk, raising the possibility that mad-cow disease could be transmitted via dairy products. UPI.com
Times are a-changin’: A NY Times editorial notes that while gratifying America’s two major appetites, for cheap food and cheap gas, used to be easy when both […]
Small Axe Farms nurtures New Orleans grassroots
My cousin sent me a link to a cool project that Eric Kugler, a friend of hers from AmeriCorps, is helping put together in New Orleans. I’ve mentioned before that I went to eighth grade and high school in the Crescent City; I still feel emotionally very tied to the area and probably always will. […]
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