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You can put cheese on most anything, but extra cheese won't help farmers sell more of it at a fair price.
We live in a food world of rather unusual contradictions. Some of them would almost seem amusing if it weren’t for the impact they can have on food policy and public health.
Sunday’s New York Times article on the lengths USDA goes to in its promotion of cheese consumption reveals the stunning failure of a federal agency to establish a true north when it comes to their mission that includes both giving nutrition advice and promoting American agriculture.
On one hand, in its role as the official mom of nutrition policy, the USDA warns us about the saturated fat in our cheese and reminds us that Americans eat far too much of it — three times the amount we ate in 1970. Then, on the other hand, the agency spends more money to fund marketing campaigns that encourage us to pour another layer of cheese onto our triple cheese burritos, cheese sandwiches and pizzas. Read more…
This week, we learned of the latest chain restaurant contrivance to challenge waistband technology: Denny’s has created a mammoth morsel of a cholesterol-rocketing, fat-flapping mistake of a meal. Ladies and gentlemen, Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt Sandwich is not the answer, regardless of the question. Read more…
When filmmaker Robert Kenner embarked on his mission to direct Food Inc., he had no idea how big his documentary film would become. He had no idea what secrets the industrial food system was hiding and admits he knew nothing more about his food and where it comes from than any average person.
Vignettes from more than 100 bovine activists protesting the move to allow milk and meat from cloned animals into the food supply on Capitol Hill. Organized by Ben & Jerry’s.
