Food, it's what's for dinner

[one...two...tree 2,762]

From the man who gave us the phrase "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" comes a memo to the next president on why food matters, and much more so than you'd think. Michael Pollan makes a compelling case for why food policy matters in making "significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change":

[W]e need to wean the American food system off its heavy 20th-century diet of fossil fuel and put it back on a diet of contemporary sunshine.

Pollan correctly ascribes many of the food system's ills to its incorrect, systemic assumption that cheap fossil fuels are here to stay:

Oil is one of the most important ingredients in our food, and people ought to know just how much of it they’re eating.

That would indeed go some way toward all three of Pollan's solutions:

I. Resolarizing the American farm

II. Reregionalizing the food system

III. Rebuilding America's food culture

In the end,

[c]heap food is food dishonestly priced — it is in fact unconscionably expensive.

That's a lesson in externalities, if there ever was one. Nothing would hit home quite as much as changing the way we eat.

http://www.env-econ.net/2008/10/food-its-whats.html

[pedroh 21]

we can eat kittehs for breakfast.. they are a renewable source

[Bootylicious!! 2]

we can eat kittehs for breakfast.. they are a renewable source

You have issues.....

[almaty 19]

we can eat kittehs for breakfast.. they are a renewable source

You have issues.....

he is banned forever from the lolcat thread

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

This thread should have attracted more hippies by now. Where are the VJ hippies at?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

This thread should have attracted more hippies by now. Where are the VJ hippies at?

Morning meditations.

[Amby 490]

healthy food is all I eat

[rocks 494]

i'm a semi-hippy i guess

compared to back home the education on food here is lacking, especially with regards to how much "bad stuff" is in products but also how far food has travelled to reach you. i find it near impossible to buy something "local" here even though there are tons of farms around here.

[chri'stina 190]

This thread should have attracted more hippies by now. Where are the VJ hippies at?

Here I am!

(j/k )

I might be 25% hippie though, in my own way.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

This thread should have attracted more hippies by now. Where are the VJ hippies at?

Here I am!

(j/k )

I might be 25% hippie though, in my own way.

hey everyone!

a necon!

get her!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mononoke28 135]

healthy food is all I eat

Me too. It's all frozen though but that way I don't have to think about it and just heat it up and pretend it's delicious.

Diana

[chri'stina 190]

This thread should have attracted more hippies by now. Where are the VJ hippies at?

Here I am!

(j/k )

I might be 25% hippie though, in my own way.

hey everyone!

a necon!

get her!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ahhh!

[chri'stina 190]

I eat fake meat products(along with some real meat)...married a vegetarian from the mystic place of India. That definitely gives me some hippie points.

I never heard the phrase that is at the beginning of the article. Is it a well known phrase? They make it sound like it.

Edited October 14, 2008 by Parivar CSK

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I eat fake meat products(along with some real meat)...married a vegetarian from the mystic place of India. That definitely gives me some hippie points.

I never heard the phrase that is at the beginning of the article. Is it a well known phrase? They make it sound like it.

wrong part of india.

my part, a meal isnt complete without meat or fish!

the good part!

[chri'stina 190]

I eat fake meat products(along with some real meat)...married a vegetarian from the mystic place of India. That definitely gives me some hippie points.

I never heard the phrase that is at the beginning of the article. Is it a well known phrase? They make it sound like it.

wrong part of india.

my part, a meal isnt complete without meat or fish!

the good part!

Hmmm I think Tigers eat people over near there too.