Health Scandal of the Decade - Monsanto’s GMO Perversion of Food

Thanks, ivolucien.

Colony Collapse Disorder in honeybees is beginning to affect the food supply, as farmers are forced to take into account a shortage of pollinators. Since pesticides on crops are a highly probable contributor to colony collapse disorder, this is another way our current food system has hidden costs that render it unsustainable. Ack.

Several-page interview with Michael Pollan, the author of Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food, and Botany of Desire, some of the books on sustainable and sustaining eating I've read recently.

Here's a list of the books I've read recently on nutrition, local eating, organic eating, the biology of modern crops & livestock, the detrimental effects of factory farming, etc. This is the order I read them in. I highly recommend all of them, except Gospel of Food, which is merely pretty good, as opposed to shove-it-in-all-my-friends'-faces- ( Read more... )