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How Corn Is Expanding Our Waistlines And Crippling Our Health System

Photo credit: Eamon Mac Mahon Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore’s Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights , “the magazine for clean capitalism”, Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes and effects of corn’s dominance, delivering “the skinny on what’s expanding our waistlines and crippling our health system” in his article ” Killer Kernel” . Food activist Wayne Roberts calls co… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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11 Yr Old Speaks Sustainable Truth to Industrial Ag Power at TEDx Asheville – Inspiring! (Video)

OK, so if you’re a regular TreeHugger reader and/or a member of Slow Food, have read any of Michael Pollan’s recent writing there’s nothing in 11 year old Birke Baehr’s five minute talk at TEDx Next Generation Asheville on the gigantic sticky, spiky, … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What’s the Secret to Enjoying a Healthy Diet? Guy Watson of Riverford Organic has the Answer (Video)

There’s a myth that to eat healthily we must eat boring tasteless food. But there’s fight on to persuade people that eating a balanced diet can be utterly delicious. Jamie Oliver has taken on the nutrition battle this year with his TED prize , Michael Pollan has published his entertaining

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Time Magazine Isn’t Chicken about Debunking Organic Eggs

Perhaps the mainstream media counted their chickens before they hatched. In a surprising admission, a July 8 Time magazine story revealed that organic eggs are no healthier than factory eggs. In the past, Time has championed organic foods and green lifestyles . Still, the egg story included a survey of egg prices in a random city – Athens, Georgia – and predictably, the survey discovered factory eggs were only $1.69 a dozen whereas organic eggs ranged from $3.99 to $5.38 a dozen. Time noted a new study that found the organic eggs are not healthier, despite the higher price tag.

Electrolux Design Competition Finalists are Just Weird This Year

Every year the Electrolux Design Competition introduces some fascinating concepts into the world of food; sometimes they are even green; this year most of them are just bizarre. Perhaps the prize should be a copy of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules; these people have never seen a kitchen, and in fact seem anti-food. Emma, shown above, doesn’t even have a kitchen, but a holodeck helmet that lets her see an virtual one. “The thoughts of the user are then transmitted to robotic chefs within the building who then prepare the visualised meal in a real kitchen and with real ingredients. In effect, the headset replaces the need for kitchen appliances in ind… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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13,000 Cyclists Take Over Toronto Highways

We often complain about how Toronto favours the driver over the cyclist, but for one day a year cyclists rule the city as the two main highways are closed down for the Becel Ride for the Heart , a fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation sponsored by a margarine company. (Michael Pollan would not approve ) So while the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Michael Pollan on the Food Movement, Rising

Farmers Market, Union Square, New York City: Photo by Lloyd Alter On the pretext of reviewing five books on food and food politics, Michael Pollan writes a long and interesting essay in the New York Review of Books. He writes that “Cheap food has become an indispensable pillar of the modern economy. But it is no longer an invisible or uncontested one. One of the most interesting social movements to emerge in the last few years is the “food movement,” or perhaps I should say “movements,” since it is unified as yet by little more … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Super Eco reads: Edible Estates

Have we convinced you yet that there are better things to do with the water, equipment, fuel, energy and pesticides that go into maintaining a traditional lawn ? If we haven’t, add this voice into the mix: Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn by Fritz Haeg. This expanded second edition won’t overwhelm you with how-to minutiae or examples of perfection you could never hope to achieve on your own. Instead, you get a steady stream of inspiration: region-by-region prototypes, planting calendars, yes, but also full-blown essays by sustainability supporters such as Michael Pollan and Lesley Stern. “By attacking the front lawn,” writes the author, “an essential icon of the American Dream, my hope is to ignite a chain reaction of thoughts that question other antiquated conventions of home, street, neighborhood, city, and global networks that we take for granted. If we see that our neighbor’s typical lawn instead can be a beautiful food garden, perhaps we begin to look at the city around us with new eyes. The seemingly inevitable urban structures begin to unravel as we recognize that we have a choice about how we want to live and what we want to do with the places we have inherited from previous generations. No matter what has been handed to us, each of us should be given license to be an active part in the creation of the cities that we share, and in the process, our private land can be a public model for the world in which we would like to live.” Will we be able to overcome our American preoccupation with lawns that project the right image to the neighbors? It’s a major shift for many—but perhaps planting a book like Edible Estates on your neighbor’s coffee table might inspire more fruitful plantings in the front yard. (Photo credit: woodleywonderworks, flickr ) People: Michael Pollan Glossary: Organic , Sustainable , Pesticides , Water

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Of Early Birds and Cavemen: The Two Dumbest Food Trends You’ll Read About This Week

This week’s Sunday Styles is working a strong theme on food’s frontlines: time, like an episode of Lost , is in flux! Because there are some some among us who are eating like OLDS, and some who are eating like cavemen.

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