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Half-baked

What Gourmet’s critics missed 5
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Gourmet magazine was a pioneer among its glossy peers in making space for a new and fast-growing appetite among American readers: the desire for critical perspectives on the food system.
The man who confused the NY Times and New Scientist, the man who moved George Will and math-challenged Morano to extreme disinformation

Exclusive interview with Dr. Mojib Latif 0
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago
No Holds Barred

The Yes Men reveal their next big stunt 1
Posted 2 months ago In a video interview with Grist, the high-minded pranksters talk about their successes (and arrest!) during the recent climate week, their new movie, and their hot plans for Copenhagen.
A video interview with the Yes Men 0
Posted 2 months ago
Acres of Apathy

Does anyone still care about “the land”? 25
Posted 2 months ago The newest climate anthem features earnest stars bleating that it's time to take a stand -- "for our land." And literally billions of people turn a deaf ear.
Choice nuggets

Two takes on school lunches, plus other tasty morsels from around the web 2
Posted 2 months ago
Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web.
The Mean Streets of Journalism

On gaming the political spectrum 0
Posted 2 months ago With the fate of the climate bill depending in part on how it's framed, is the Post doing damage with its easy-peasy political characterizations?
THE RIGHT MOVE

Washington Post doubles down on fact-free climate denial 0
Posted 2 months ago Is there any media outlet that enables global warming denial more effectively than the Washington Post? After today's op-ed from one of the top deniers in the world, the latest in a long line of denial op-eds, you have to wonder.
Hayward J'Buzzoff

The problem with unspoken assumptions 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago Steven Hayward's OpEd in the Wall St. Journal yesterday ("No: Alternatives Simply Too Expensive") really annoyed me the first time I read it.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: Climate debates re-emerge after week-long obscurity 4
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) turned heads this week when he suggested to reporters that the calendar is so full, a vote on climate change legislation might wait until next year.
The Contrarian's Dilemma

James McWilliams’ over-hyped and undercooked anti-locavore polemic 15
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
In his new book Just Food, the historian James McWilliams lectures local-food activists on why they should learn to love pesticides and food shipped in from across the globe.
Choice nuggets

From Big Ag’s climate problem to Whole Foods’ latest snafu, tasty morsels from around the Web 5
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web.
A WALK THROUGH THE WEEK'S CLIMATE NEWS

The Climate Post: When climate change leads to… m-u-u-u-u-u-r-der… 1
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Alfred Hitchcock filled his movies with suspense by picking some object of life-or-death consequence -- microfilm, documents, uranium-filled wine bottles -- and setting his characters in pursuit.
No justice, no sustainability

‘Time’ was right about cheap food—but forgot farmworkers 10
Posted 3 months ago
'Time' ran a powerful cover story recently about the the real costs of supposedly cheap food. But it left out a key aspect: systematic abuse and impoverishment of farm workers.
Politics of the plate--and the page

How I got drafted into James McWilliams’ anti-locavore diatribe 1
Posted 3 months ago
The Guardian’s 10:10 climate change campaign 0
Posted 3 months ago
Blowing smoke out his Grassley

Chuck Grassley does not believe in the threat of anthropogenic climate change 11
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
In a Tuesday conference call with Iowa agricultural reporters, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offered some state-of-the-art Republican doubletalk on climate change. This is worth reading in full, in part to admire the blithely inconsistent muddle of it all, but also in part to marvel at just how second-nature this line of dissembling has become. These talking points are echoed almost verbatim up and down the conservative food chain, all the way from bottom-feeders like Marc Morano to U.S. Senators. No conservative has to think on his feet about it, or craft his own careful line on it.
'TIME' for Change

Sustainable ag meets the MSM—and wins! 14
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
TIME Magazine's current cover story wants you to know that our fossil-fueled, chemically intensive industrial food system is destined to fail. The second part of that sentence isn't news to Grist readers. But the first part of that sentence is news, but I wouldn't have expected to read such a strong critique of Big Ag in a bastion of the MSM.
Placemakers

Tim Halbur on sprawl, propaganda, and Obama’s approach to urban issues 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
We kick off a new interview series by talking with the managing editor of Planetizen, who knows a thing or two about how cities grow.
King Corn speaks

An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks back 49
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
A lot of folks have asked what I think of the essay "The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals," by Missouri corn-soy farmer Blake Hurst...