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		<title>“Eating Local: Elitist Fad or Road to Recovery?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 18, food writer Ian Brown published the piece “Foodies: Are food crazies getting their just desserts?” in The Globe and Mail. In it, he used the story of a snobby dinner companion sending back an under-salted dish as an example of epicurean elitism. A friend of mine sent back the duck confit we ordered the other night in a restaurant in Toronto. He told the maitre d’ it wasn’t salty enough. He’s a serious and discerning foodie, and I admired his send-back cojones even as I cringed with embarrassment … I understand his right as a paying customer to return the brine-challenged duck. But it felt like too much privilege by half, and one more glaring example of self-indulgent foodism. Brown’s piece was, at its core, a response to two recent articles that have been heralded as a long-overdue backlash against foodies, locavores and others of their ilk: B. R. Myers’ recent ramble, “The Moral Case Against Foodies,” published in The Atlantic and The Economist’s special report on feeding the world, which argues that organic farming is incapable of sustaining the world’s projected 2050 population of 9 billion people. On March 25, recent BW profilee Mark Schatzker—author of Steak: One Man&#8217;s Search for the World&#8217;s Tastiest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollan calls for farmer incentives to fix crises</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(GH) As mentioned in a previous post, Michael Pollan, author of &#8220;The Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma,&#8221; spoke at Washinton State University on Wednesday, January 13th.  Here, from the agricultural weekly Capital Press, is an article on what Pollan had to say. By MATTHEW WEAVER Capital Press PULLMAN, Wash. &#8212; Michael Pollan believes farmers may eventually solve three of the world&#8217;s biggest problems &#8212; the crises centered on energy, health care and climate change. The author of &#8220;The Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma&#8221; outlined his &#8220;sun food agenda,&#8221; advocating a return to a diversified agricultural system, during his lecture at Washington State University on Wednesday, Jan. 13. &#8220;It might be possible to once again harness the power of the sun to feed ourselves and wean ourselves off this diet of fossil fuel,&#8221; he said, referring to the oil and natural gas required to make fertilizer, fuel and pesticides. Today&#8217;s food system more closely resembles a factory model, Pollan said. &#8220;This food chain from which most of us now eat is deeply implicated in three of the most serious problems we face as a society: the energy crisis, the health-care crisis and the climate change crisis,&#8221; he said. Before World War II, the food system was ecologically efficient, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Book Banning, Michael Pollan to Speak at WSU</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma, a critique of modern food systems that was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, will speak January 13th at Washington State University in Pullman as part of its annual common reading program. What&#8217;s noteworthy about Pollan&#8217;s visit is that only last May the university banned Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma from freshman reading lists.  After already buying 4000 copies, the President and Provost cited financial constraints.  Critics of the ban said political pressure from agricultural interests was the real reason for pulling the book.  The Spokesman Review, in an article written last May, quoted Patricia Ericsson, an assistant English professor who recommended Pollan&#8217;s best seller as saying “A substantial part of the reason was because of political pressure growing from the book choice.”  The Spokesman article went on to say: &#8220;That political pressure apparently was brought to bear by a member of the board of regents, Harold Cochran, who disapproved of the author’s characterization of agribusiness. Cochran owns and operates a 5,500-acre farm near Walla Walla, is a founding stockholder in the Bank of the West in Walla Walla and is a member [...]]]></description>
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