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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Picture three young women getting on their bicycles and pedaling from the District of Columbia to Montreal and back to visit urban food gardens and other young people caught up in the movement to take back our agriculture. They call themselves Women’s Garden Cycles–Liz Tylander, Kat Schiffler, Lara Sheets–and we are only too lucky that […]
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How does corn grown in Iowa get into the structure of a hair follicle belonging to a guy from Massachussetts? That is the question that drives two friends–linked by a common Midwestern ancestry–to move to Iowa for a year and plant an acre of corn to see how this ancient crop came to dominate the […]
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