Billie Best — farmer, writer, consultant

Posts Tagged: Public Policy


Posts Tagged ‘Public Policy’

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 [...]

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, [...]