Nicholas Kristof has a great op-ed in today’s New York Times about the notion of a Department of Food, rather than a Department of Agriculture in the US. The notion is that the department which overseas food production should represent eaters as much as it does farmers. It’s an interesting concept, one Ezra Klein has discussed [...]
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I started my current exercise-kick on April 19th. That’s just a tick over two months ago. I can’t believe the difference even in that time. Yesterday, I hit the 10kg mark. As in, I’ve lost ten kilos. Which, considering I only changed my diet about four weeks ago, and the first [...] I’ve been reading Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which is a really fascinating read. I’d never really thought about how much the way in which we get our food has fundamentally changed in the last century. Moving from the simple energy chains of sun-plant-human, or sun-plant-animal-human, to these incredibly complex systems we now have is [...] A few weeks ago, I went to see the wonderful Michael Pollan speak at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. During question time after his talk, I desperately wanted to ask a question about the Farm Bill, and particularly whether he thought we can actually do something real or significant to change our eating habits without it. But, being [...] |
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