With “Eat Ins” being held around the country on Labor day to support healthier school lunches it went unnoticed by the general public that Congress intends to delay until spring any improvements to the national school lunch program. It’s a further sign of President Obama’s struggles in his first year. Health care reform and action on climate […]
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My mother didn’t raise me to be a lobbyist. But there I was on Wednesday, jawboning congressmen and aides to the U.S. Senate on the virtues of legislation that would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture authority to prohibit junk food in the nation’s schools. Say bye, bye to vending machines spewing chips, candy bars, sugary […]
Food Inc., the documentary about how corporations have industrialized our food system, is a film every American should watch. Too bad most of them won’t, simply because this is not the kind of movie that gets wide distribution. And if you’ve read Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, and Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, there’s not much […]
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