The Foodlums

Monday, June 29, 2009

Food Inc: Michael Pollan and Friends Reveal the Food Industry's Darkest Secrets

Thursday 25 June 2009

by: Tara Lohan | Visit article original @ AlterNet
A scene from the documentary film "Food Inc." (Photo: Food Inc. / Magnolia Pictures)

The new film "Food Inc." is a shocking look at the health, human rights and environmental nightmare that lands on our plate each meal.

It turns out that figuring out the most simple thing - like what's on your dinner plate, and where it came from - is actually a pretty subversive act.

http://www.truthout.org/062509R?n

Friday, June 26, 2009

How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains

“Why does that chocolate chip cookie have such power over me?” Dr. Kessler asked in an interview. “Is it the cookie, the representation of the cookie in my brain? I spent seven years trying to figure out the answer.”The result of Dr. Kessler’s quest is a fascinating new book, “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite” (Rodale).

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/health/23well.html?_r=1&em

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Show Us Your Community Garden Tourism!

Fellow Community Gardeners,

while on a trip to Denver, CO I took some time to tour a few community gardens that will bring fresh ideas as we develop different community gardens that work in our downtown and surrounding neighborhoods.

If you get a chance to do the same and take photos, type up ideas and contact information for those gardens we would greatly appreciate it! (Also, I recomend bringing a VolumeOne and taking a photo there, show the people of the Chippewa Valley where you've been and what you'd like to bring back to our community... www.communitygrown.blogspot.com

Thanks!