This story was in our papers yesterday - the degree to which the junk food industry targets kids, spending $1.6 billion in 2006; soda ads alone accounted for $492 million.
And so we have several FTC recommendations, in resposne to the report:
Media and entertainment companies should limit the licensing of characters to healthier foods and drinks.
Schools should adopt […]
Worked at the bakery at SKH in Lititz for a few years when I was a kid, never saw anything like these. Bizarre. Disgusting. Vaguely disturbing. Party on!
Naomi Klein is author of one of the most fascinating pieces I’ve ever read, “Baghdad Year Zero,” in which she talked about her theory of “shock doctrine” and the rise of “disaster capitalism,” which she later turned into a book.
At its core, as she describes in a new piece in The Nation, disaster capitalism is “today’s […]
Tags: Food · Oil · War in Iraq · climate change
I always read Kuntsler when I need to feel more depressed than I already am. He doesn’t disappoint this week:
These are not your daddy’s or granddaddy’s floods. These are 500-year floods, events not seen before non-Indian people starting living out on that stretch of the North American prairie. The vast majority of home-owners in Eastern […]
Tags: Economy · Food · climate change
Hm. Been talking around here lately about the importance of buying/eating local. Over at the NYT, Stephen J. Dubner isn’t buying it. He notes a recent piece in Environmental Science and Technology magazine by two Carnegie Mellon researchers, who write:
We find that although food is transported long distances in general (1640 km delivery and 6760 km […]
New twist on the old favorite:
For years, the idea of eating only food grown locally and in season was reserved for upscale chefs like Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., or serious hippies living off the grid, while the rest of us didn’t think twice about gulping down blueberries from Chile or avocadoes […]
I’m sort of aghast at the wide-eyed amazement expressed in this Era piece, but then again, over the course of the past couple weeks I’ve had several people say to me - in almost conspiratorial/apologetic tones - that they’re growing some of their own vegetables this year.
Revolutionary!
But apparently it is. Which sort of flabbergasts me; […]
Tags: Economy · Food · Lancaster
Uh, should we be worried that this appeared not on some hysterical blog somewhere but, you know, in the Wall Street Journal?
I don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food.
No, this is not a drill.
You’ve seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. […]
