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  This is very encouraging. We need to be writing about this continuously. At lease in one respect the climate crisis provides an opportunity to undo the highly destructive industrial agriculture. I have been writing about this regularly on my The Kathmandu Post column and your article vindicates my points. Thank you for bringing this up.On Soil carbon -- a blind spot in the debate on carbon posted 6 hours, 44 minutes ago 2 Responses

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  I am generally surprised by the knee jerk reaction against government intervention in the US. But what's wrong with curbing the advertisement by the fast food? What's wrong with providing increased interventions towards school gardening? What's wrong with increasing funding for local farmers' markets? This anti-government intervention oftentimes contributes to the continuation of present status quo which enormously subsidizes the unhealthy food, disastrous production system and ingorance-producing education. I think the question is not whether the government has to intervent or not--it has been. The question is where should our enormous tax money be put in.On Is Michelle Obama about to take on Big Food? posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago 40 Responses

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  This is incredible. Same is happening across the Himalayas. The snow lines are receding fast and people walk around in half-sleeve shirts in places where they used to wear very warm wool not many years ago! The Telltale signs are everywhere and most of us are going about our lives as if these are normal--we have no qualms about our car; we have no desire to give up our more than necessary material possessions!On Our parks in peril posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago 6 Responses

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  This is so fascinating--seemingly small gestures, but could have far reaching effects across the US and possibly world. Well, just a farmer's market may not make much difference, but that's the case with just about anything--we need to do a lot of things, but then the very fact that it took all these years and it had to be Obama who could even utter this is so uplifting and fascinating.

  On Obama wants to set up White House farmers market posted 3 months, 1 week ago 8 Responses

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  I have stopped even thinking about food in terms of nutrition, because as Michael Pollan has brillianly shown in his In Defense of Food, the nutrition science is more a quackery than an objective science. But a simple question: if there is no nutritional difference between organically grown and non-organically grown foods, then how do we explain the huge difference in taste, say, between organic and non-organic carrots. May be taste is different things.

  On A debate about soil, organics, and nutrition posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago 24 Responses