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Visalia Journal - Farmers Lead a Bid to Create 2 Californias - NYTimes.com
“City people just don’t know what it takes to get food on their table.”
But while the plan is not new — the idea of two Californias has been floated dozens of times — the motivations and geographical scissor-work are. Frustrated by what they call uninformed urban voters dictating faulty farm policy, Mr. Rogers and the other members of the movement have proposed splitting off 13 counties on the state’s coast, leaving the remaining 45, mostly inland, counties as the “real” California.
Go Slow, Foodies. It's the Way to Win. - washingtonpost.com
"They don't have a central, core message," James Thurber, an expert on lobbying and the director of American University's Center on Congressional and Presidential Studies, told me. That, or they're not getting it out. "Is this about reducing obesity in schools?" he asks. "Is it about pesticides on the farms? It's a wonderful thing to try to change policy, but what policy are they trying to change?"
Deputy “Secretary of Food” - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog - NYTimes.com
As a former Oregon farm boy, I’m convinced that the department mostly serves to undermine some kinds of family farms and support large commercial farming interests — while also supporting food that is not nutritious and undermines the health of our children. President Obama chose Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture, which in my view was regrettable; Vilsack is much better than some others on these issues, but he’s not a true reformer.
Investing in a new food system should be part of the economic-spending package | By Tom Philpott | Grist | Victual Reality | 09 Jan 2009
Think Locally, Act Infrastructurally
As the food industry consolidated over the past half century -- aided by the federal government through generous subsidies to commodity farmers and lax antitrust enforcement -- local and regional-scale slaughterhouses, canneries, and dairy-processing plants were the economic victims. Reviving that infrastructure would significantly lower costs for the sort of pasture-based, sustainable meat farmers who are now badly undercut on price by large-scale, environmentally ruinous producers. The legendary Virginia farmer Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm reckons that having to haul his cows to a distant slaughterhouse adds a dollar a pound to the price of his grass-fed beef. Why not make federal grants to rebuild the missing facilities that sustainable-minded farmers need to thrive?
Cornell Chronicle: Eating healthier could cut energy use
How much energy we use to produce food could be cut in half if Americans ate less and ate local foods, wolfed down less meat, dairy and junk food, and used more traditional farming methods, says a new Cornell study.
YouTube - Pollan on Growth of Organic Movement
nice little clip of pollan talking about "farmers talking to consumers"
Foodies Make a Pitch to Obama - Diner’s Journal Blog - NYTimes.com
It was signed by 88 people, among them: Michael Pollan, Judy Wicks, Alice Waters, Rick Bayless, Wendell Berry, Eric Schlosser, Anna Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Paul Willis, Dan Barber, Michel Nischan, Ann Cooper, Marion Nestle, Peter Hoffman, Winona LaDuke, and Michael Dimock.
The Food Issue - An Open Letter to the Next Farmer in Chief - Michael Pollan - NYTimes.com
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
Bill Moyers sits down with Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley, to discuss what direction the U.S. should pursue in the often-overlooked question of food policy. Pollan is author of IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: AN EATER'S MANIFESTO.
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