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“Have you ever been to the farm?” Let Sesame Street take you
Tomorrow's New York Times Sunday Magazine has a story about the DVD release of “Sesame Street: Old School” that mentions some trippy sequences on farms. I didn't recall any of this from my Sesame Street-watching childhood in the early '70s, so I went
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Missoula, MT is for the birds — and against them, too
Meloukhia (along with my BoingBoing-reading husband) alerts us to a
Digest – Blogsnacks: Russ Parsons says “Pay more!”, farmer reality show
Everybody's talking about: Michael Ruhlman gets spanked by Russ Parsons over whether farmers markets cater only to an elite audience who can afford "boutique" prices. The argument is old, but Parsons delivers a peachy-keen fresh take. (Ruhlman.com) Framing
“The Dying Fields: India’s Forgotten Farmers” on PBS
Just found out from the New York Times that tonight PBS will screen “The Dying Fields,” a Wide Angle installment about the epidemic of suicides among farmers in India. (Amendment: KQED
Stephen Colbert on Kellogg’s advertising, antifreeze toothpaste, and obesity drug
Stephen Colbert is doing some of my favorite reporting, fake or otherwise, on the various absurdities of our food system. In April he had a hilarious segment on rBGH, the synthetic hormone uses to boost cows' milk production. Last night
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Dinnertime viewing
This cartoon by P.S. Mueller from the May 14 New Yorker reminded me of the BBC Three reality show "Kill It, Cook It, Eat It," which premiered back in March. The premise of the show is for eaters to learn where their meat comes from. Each
