April 2011 Blog Posts

Conscious Shopper
Moving From Conscious Consumer to Engaged Citizen
Posted Apr 28, 2011 @ 12:35 PM
Part 1 of a series of blogs based on the book: Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All. A Broken Food System Our food system is failing many of us. Originally designed to produce abundant food at low cost, it now destroys some of what we hold most precious—our environment, our health, and our future.
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Obesity's Hidden Factor: High Cost of Healthy Meals
Posted Apr 7, 2011 @ 3:00 AM
Obesity isn't entirely – or even primarily – a question of willpower, but has a lot to do with socioeconomic status. Federal policy should address this by making healthy foods cheaper.
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Food Fight
Posted Apr 3, 2011 @ 3:00 AM
Food Fight In this exciting video, Michael Moss investigates the relationship of our brain's reward system and the bottom line. It features food, kids, an interesting principal and a great program at a school. Watch here: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/03/27/us/100000000727556/food-fight.html    
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The Inconvenient Truth About Cheap Food and Obesity: It's Not Farm Subsidies
Posted Apr 2, 2011 @ 3:00 AM
April 2, 2011 http://www.good.is
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