Link to article on new USDA Dietary Guidelines (article has link to actual USDA publication too!).
This article shows how food products that we consider natural and wholesome are owned by the same companies we find unnatural and unwholesome. It also links to GoodGuide, which ranks a companies green-ness and tells you who the parent company is.
This article takes a look at how we streotype farmers as dumb hicks on the back forty, when actually, there's a lot a farmer needs to know to be successful.
All of the above are from The Grist, so I hope you can handle the obvious sarcasm in their writing. The info is still good and pertinent since it's consumer education.
Now, on to the NY Times. The next two articles were sent to me by Will Sheftall, Leon County Extension Agent. The first article takes a look at the young farmer movement. WooHoo!! The second doesn't totally connect to food, as it relates to education, the middle class, economic recovery, and the replacement of people by technological advances, but it makes you think that farming probably won't be outsourced or done by a robot so we might as well teach people how to be farmers. Maybe those interested should get degrees in biology, chemistry, entymology, etc.
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