Milk Scandal Taints China's Self-Image
Anna Greenspan : China
The tainted milk crisis could prod China to act responsibly.
Food & Nutrition
2008
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Toxic Loans, Tainted Food
David E. Gumpert : U.S. Economy
As financial markets reel from the US financial crisis and tainted Chinese dairy products are sold around the world, we're learning hard lessons on the limits of globalization.
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Slow Food for Thought
Eric Schlosser : Agriculture
Affluent foodies embrace sustainable agriculture, oblivious that ordinary people--especially the poor--don't have a seat at the table.
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Burgers or Biofuel?
Frances Cerra Whittelsey : Environment
Biofuels have become the new villain in the climate change and food crisis debate. But America's consumption of meat is a bigger part of the problem than the cars and trucks we drive.
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Drawing Your Last Breath Hungry
Allan Nairn : Myanmar (Burma)
We can blame the Burmese government for the unfolding tragedy in the wake of the cyclone. We can also blame ourselves.
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Got Milk? Get Investigated
David E. Gumpert : Civil Rights & Liberties
State and federal authorities are relying on undercover agents to entrap dairy farmers.
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Milk Wars
David E. Gumpert : Agriculture
As struggling dairy farmers seek profits by responding to rising consumer demand for raw milk, regulators are taking a hard line.
2007
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USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program
David E. Gumpert & William Pentland : Agriculture
A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.
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Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing
There is an alternative to unhealthy eating and irresponsible development schemes.
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Luxury Grub
Barbara Ehrenreich : Gap Between Wealth & Poverty
What's so great about designer chocolate if it's infested with cockroach droppings? As the economic widens, rich and poor still occupy the same food chain.
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Old McDonald Had a Farm...and He Got Arrested?
David E. Gumpert : Agriculture
As consumers increasingly seek out farmers who raise organic and unpasteurized food, suddenly energized regulators claim they want to "protect" us from pathogens and other dangers. What gives?
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Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats
Matthew Blake : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.
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The Hundred-Mile Diet
Christopher Ketcham : Agriculture
A new way to fight global warming and corporate agriculture: Eat only locally grown food, and call yourself a localvore.
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Learning to Love the Farm Bill
The bipartisan farm bill making its way through Congress offers real hope to feed the hungry at home and abroad and improve nutrition for poor kids. But it faces a likely presidential veto over, you guessed it, taxes.
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Gardening for Change in the City
Local food projects and community gardens are springing up in urban areas all over the country, cutting a promising new path to empowering the poor.
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What Causes Cancer? Probably Not You
Barbara Ehrenreich : Health & Disease
The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or some grave moral failing just took another hit.
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Why Milk Costs More Than Gas
America's kids will get less calcium because of our unabated appetite for gas-guzzling cars--and the wrongheaded belief that ethanol is the answer.
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Watch Your Foodometer
Here's a way to consume less oil: Eat locally! Video artist Molly Schwartz traces how far food travels from field to fork.
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Getting Real About Food
Donna Schaper & Molly Schwartz : Environment
Something very strange has happened to food in the richest country in the world: It's fast, but it ain't good. And it travels way too far a distance from the field to your fork.
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More Like It Hot
To live and dine in California, where one in four is an immigrant, is to sit at a global table. And a bland national cuisine is heating up.
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My Beef With Vegetarianism
The Bloodless Revolution explores four centuries of arguments for vegetarianism, from good health to fascist politics.
2006
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Smithfield Walkout Challenges Agribiz Giant
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Labor Organizing & Activism
Last week's walkout at the Smithfield Packing Company was a significant victory for labor organizers and exploited undocumented workers at the North Carolina plant.
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Kitchen Stories
As chroniclers of the secret, unexpected, below-the-radar places Americans prepare and consume their meals, NPR's Kitchen Sisters discovered their microphone has become a kind of stethoscope, listening to the complicated heart of a nation.
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Doing Lunch
Anna Lappé : Education Policy & Reform
Ann Cooper, gourmet chef turned healthy school food advocate, talks about becoming a "lunch lady" and what it takes to reform our children's cafeterias.
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A Right to Food?
Frances Moore Lappé : Social & Economic Rights
Hunger is a violation of basic rights: a right to food, but more important, Bolivian and Brazilian experience suggests, a right to power.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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