Monday, May 17th, 2010
Some foodie friends came over for fried chicken and collards. They left behind a jar of dill pickles. I ate the last pickle yesterday and as I was rinsing out the jar, I noticed the list of ingredients included Polysorbate 80 and Yellow #5. Yikes! I can’t believe that made it through the front door [...]
Polysorbate 89 and Yellow #5
Tags: farm, Food, pickles, Polysorbate 80, Public Policy, Sustainability, Yellow #5
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
I just listened to this podcast from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity about diet-related disease, the environmental cost of industrial food, and the lifestyle habits of Americans, who lead the Western world in watching TV and eating crap. It’s a brilliantly concise (14 minute) interview with New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, [...]
Turn off TV and cook your food
Tags: agriculture, Food, Public Policy, Sustainability
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