archive for the 'Health' Category

Digest - Blogs: Test your 2007 food-politics knowledge, Nestle on low-fat, ethics of hair mats

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, January 3rd, 2008.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

The jury is in: A review of Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food”

by Bonnie P. @ Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008.

“In Defense of Food” does more than merely stick up for the produce section: it mounts a damning attack on this diet, which in Pollan’s assessment is “a radical and at least in evolutionary terms, abrupt set of changes over the course of the last 150 years, not just to our foodstuffs but also to our food relationships, all the way from the soil to the meal.”… This is huge, evolutionarily speaking, writes Pollan: Of all the changes to our food system that go under the heading “the Western Diet,” the shift from a food chain with green plants at its base to one based on seeds may be the most far reaching of all…. “The food industry needs theories so it can better redesign specific processed foods; a new theory means a new line of products, allowing the industry to go on tweaking the Western diet instead of making any more radical change to its business model,” Pollan writes…. And while he for the most part acknowledges when he resorts to the familiar “good nutrient, bad nutrient” jargon, he could have emphasized more in the section on omega-3 fatty acids that, while the food industry is jumping on the bandwagon for this current It nutrient, whole foods like salmon that naturally contain it have far lower levels when fed unnatural diets from, you guessed it, grains…. He doesn’t mention that not only does Ames believe that deficiencies in micronutrient may be behind obesity — positing the very interesting hypothesis that “a body starved of critical nutrients will keep eating in the hope of obtaining them” — but like all good nutritionists, he is hard at work on identifying and developing artificial versions of those missing micronutrients.

Wired’s Infoporn on mapping the price of a calorie

by Bonnie P. @ Friday, December 28th, 2007.

The current issue of Wired magazine has an infoporn (that’s infographic to non-geeks) I put together, on the cost of a calorie. Believe it or not, it wasn’t my idea.

Marilyn Manson says “Buy American”

by Bonnie P. @ Friday, December 28th, 2007.

and that "growing takes proteins; meat can be a tasty treat, like fish or human beings" in this surreal video on the food pyramid from the goth rocker:

Via U.S. Food Policy

Digest - News: Chickens hatching drug-resistant E. coli, clone-tracking proposal, food shortages

by Ethicurean @ Friday, December 21st, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Spray it forward: Pesticide residues in U.S. food

by Bonnie P. @ Thursday, December 20th, 2007.

The USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service has released its annual summary for its Pesticide Data Program. And it scares me.

Digest - News: Atrazine contamination widespread, testing hogs for MRSA, raw milk sickness in Kansas

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, December 9th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - Commentary & Blogs: Scary new pesticide, folic acid solution, post-peak-oil soil

by Ethicurean @ Friday, December 7th, 2007.

Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.

Digest - Features: Farmers, dairymen protest govt crackdowns; rare farm-animal breeds; superbugs coming

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, November 7th, 2007.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

American Meat Institute’s new video: “That does sound like good news for consumers!”

by Bonnie P. @ Wednesday, October 31st, 2007.

Today the American Meat Institute unveiled a 6-minute-long, “consumer-friendly video” on YouTube, just like all the cool-kid companies are doing.

Digest - News: Two meat-industry reforms may survive Farm Bill grinder, broccoli as sunblock

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, October 25th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - Features: A+ for bee-minus story, cattlemen no supertasters, farming is poisoning our drinking water

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, October 17th, 2007.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

Digest - Features: Grist goes ag-grow, excremental exhortations, and Cal Dining gets SOLE

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, October 10th, 2007.

In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.

Digest - News: Beef recall blossoms, Monsanto farmers to get cheaper crop insurance, bird flu in Canada

by Ethicurean @ Sunday, September 30th, 2007.

Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.

Digest - News: Save our schoolkids (from their lunches), another E. coli outbreak, mass fish slaughter

by Ethicurean @ Thursday, September 27th, 2007.

A round-up of the most important news & commentary regarding SOLE- and anti-SOLE food issues, farming, policy, etc. that we think Ethicurean readers will want to know about.

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