If you eat meat, especially beef, it is mandatory that you read Michael Moss’ article “E. Coli Path Shows Flaws in Inspection,” published October 3, 2009 in The New York Times. If, after reading the article, you still want to eat beef, know that you risk the same fate of Stephanie Smith unless you are willing to purchase your meat from a local, family-run, small-scale farm that raises its cows on grass (as close to 100% as possible) and leaves its chickens to roam freely in empty pastures. Every time you disregard these meat products for their high costs, consider the cost of long-term hospitalization, paralysis and/or death.
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The Grass-Fed Manifesto (part 2)
Urban farming, Low-Income Communities and Burgeoning Dietary Epidemics
My wife works in public health. She works for the state of Oregon and facilitates programs that aid single moms, kids and families. She is a great resource when it comes to larger issues in food politics. Even though she is not in ‘food policy’ per se, the field of public health must consider food and people’s diets as a piece of the larger pie (pun intended.)
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Local Food Movement Gains Serious Support
The summer before last my interest in local foods began. As I have mentioned before, the 100-mile diet really altered my life. As someone who questions everything, this new food experiment posed greater and deeper questions, ideas that I had not before considered. Read the rest of this entry »
