As I learn more and more about the food system in the United States, the more I become afraid of it.  Doing research for a paper recently, I found out that about 70% of all packaged foods sold in America have at least some genetically engineered components.  For those of you unfamiliar with GM (genetically [...]

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How the international policies that govern the way we grow and trade food are leading to starvation, obesity, poverty, environmental pollution, and injustice.

There are millions of starving people struggling in regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We’ve all known this for years. The usual explanation is that there are simply too many people and [...]

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It seems like I’m always writing about sugar…
The granulated sugar supply in the U.S. comes from two agricultural sources: half from sugar cane and the other half from sugar beets. Recently, American Crystal, a large Wyoming-based sugar company, along with several other leading sugar manufacturers announced that they will be sourcing their sugar from genetically [...]

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My point: Consume less sugar, flour, starch, and alcohol to prevent hair loss and baldness.
This is another example of big pharmaceutical and food industries lying and cheating to consumers, and victimizing the public. The traditional theory dealing with baldness was that it is caused by the male hormone, testosterone. Testosterone is converted to another hormone [...]

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My point: I think that TV advertising is the single greatest factor contributing to obesity. People, especially children, tend to purchase and consume foods that are more widely advertised. The problem is that advertised foods are the most highly processed and packaged foods. This is leading to the obesity epidemic.

Food is supposed to nourish, replenish, [...]

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In Short: Everything we eat is basically corn. That’s unnatural and its screwing up everything.
For those of you haven’t heard of Michael Pollan, he’s a professor of journalism here at Berkeley. I’ve been reading some of his books and articles. One of his best works, in my opinon, is The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Pollan introduces [...]

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There’s been a lot of new lately about the global food shortage, with one of the main causes of the shortage cited as the severe drought that is many regions of the globe are undergoing.  Here are a few articles discussing the subject: http://www.alternet.org/water/83796/, http://www.theledger.com/article/20080430/NEWS/804300403/1023, and http://current.com/items/88825320_feeling_the_squeeze.

This issue has really alarmed me, so I’ve [...]

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