Good radio day
Everyone knows I love radio. If I had my way I would make a living just listening and writing about radio and documentary films. I am all the more appreciating my radio time given that this time to listen in the mornings will only last a few more days.
This morning, I heard an interesting interview on Democracy Now! about some military recruitment tactics going on in the United States. These poor kids: recruited at school, promised educations, and then threatened if they decide they don't want to be junior soliders. In this case, the recruiter told the teenager that he would face federal charges, and lose education possibilities (if memory recalls). Listen to the whole shabam here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/6/army_recruiter_suspended_for_threatening_high
Scarry stuff.
Also on local community radio CHLY, I heard a recording from ALternative Radio (http://www.alternativeradio.org/) of a talk Michael Pollan gave in Portland Oregon on the Cornification of Food. I cannot find a free recording, but low priced downloads are available here: http://www.alternativeradio.org/programs/POLM001.shtml Pollan is the author of the very popular "Omnivore's Dilemma" and, most recently, "In defence of food", among others. The talk is a great complement to the film "King Korn", in which two Bostonians follow what happens to an acre of corn they grow in Iowa.
By coincidence, in the afternoon, I opened an older (May/June 2006) issue of Mother Jones I have from the library, to find an article by Pollan called "No bar code: the next revolution in food is just around the corner", about a farm in Virginia. Pollan must be everywhere, because as I type this, G.Strombo on The Hour just mentioned the interview he did with him. Wow, weird.
For an online taste of his cornification thoughts, go here, for example:
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.16.05/pollan-0507.html He is probably even more prolific now because of his most recent book.
Pollan says eating local is the way too go, which gets applause in Portland, but not always in easy option in say, Edmonton or Chicago come November. The uber-successful book "The 100 mile diet", about a Vancouver couple (two writers), demonstrates how challenging it can even be in Vancouver (a fairly temperate climate) by people with a somewhat flexible schedule, to eat locally. But, take what you can from it to try.
After all this, I made what is most likely my last trip to the Nanaimo Farmers' Market today. Bused there with my bike, biked back. Silly, because it is way too hot here right now. Thank goodness for the downhill breeze. And jeez, I have veggies growing in my back yard- the two metre diet. (But I would be hard pressed to live on my little green beens and lettuce through out the winter!)
The pooch is fine and relishing in her time in the wilderness.
This morning, I heard an interesting interview on Democracy Now! about some military recruitment tactics going on in the United States. These poor kids: recruited at school, promised educations, and then threatened if they decide they don't want to be junior soliders. In this case, the recruiter told the teenager that he would face federal charges, and lose education possibilities (if memory recalls). Listen to the whole shabam here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/6/army_recruiter_suspended_for_threatening_high
Scarry stuff.
Also on local community radio CHLY, I heard a recording from ALternative Radio (http://www.alternativeradio.org/) of a talk Michael Pollan gave in Portland Oregon on the Cornification of Food. I cannot find a free recording, but low priced downloads are available here: http://www.alternativeradio.org/programs/POLM001.shtml Pollan is the author of the very popular "Omnivore's Dilemma" and, most recently, "In defence of food", among others. The talk is a great complement to the film "King Korn", in which two Bostonians follow what happens to an acre of corn they grow in Iowa.
By coincidence, in the afternoon, I opened an older (May/June 2006) issue of Mother Jones I have from the library, to find an article by Pollan called "No bar code: the next revolution in food is just around the corner", about a farm in Virginia. Pollan must be everywhere, because as I type this, G.Strombo on The Hour just mentioned the interview he did with him. Wow, weird.
For an online taste of his cornification thoughts, go here, for example:
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.16.05/pollan-0507.html He is probably even more prolific now because of his most recent book.
Pollan says eating local is the way too go, which gets applause in Portland, but not always in easy option in say, Edmonton or Chicago come November. The uber-successful book "The 100 mile diet", about a Vancouver couple (two writers), demonstrates how challenging it can even be in Vancouver (a fairly temperate climate) by people with a somewhat flexible schedule, to eat locally. But, take what you can from it to try.
After all this, I made what is most likely my last trip to the Nanaimo Farmers' Market today. Bused there with my bike, biked back. Silly, because it is way too hot here right now. Thank goodness for the downhill breeze. And jeez, I have veggies growing in my back yard- the two metre diet. (But I would be hard pressed to live on my little green beens and lettuce through out the winter!)
The pooch is fine and relishing in her time in the wilderness.