Monday Extra Large Sampler Platter

by: Jill Richardson

Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 14:28:23 PM PDT

• PBS will be running a show called Poisoned Waters, says Natasha at Change.org. It looks like a good one to check out.

• Andy Borowitz reports that Wall Street salary caps drive away assholes

• Friend and fellow foodie Tom Laskawy was on the radio machine! He posted the MP3 on his blog so you can listen.

• I've been doing a politics of school lunch series over at Change.org. Check it out if you feel inclined.

• California's got a new cash crop: solar panels. Or, perhaps more accurately, solar energy.

• Brilliant piece from Civil Eats about garden-based learning.

• Definitely check out this piece on Eating Liberally about nutritionism. That's the term that I think Michael Pollan probably coined referring to the obsession with eating all sorts of vitamins but forgetting to focus on whether or not you're eating real food.

• One of the pioneers of the organics movement talks about what the word organic has meant over the past 30+ years. Very enlightening - especially if you (like me) didn't even exist 30 years ago :)

• Two of my favorite bloggers together in one diary! Yay! Marion Nestle did an interview at Obama Foodorama about Obama's new puppy and pet food politics. (And speaking of Pet Food Politics, I highly recommend Nestle's book of that title and I'm looking forward to her next book about what pets should eat too!)

• Also not to miss from Dr. Nestle - her take on how to fix the FDA.

• The Green Fork blog takes a look at the politics of raw milk.

• Calling all Mountain Dew lovers! Fooducate tells all about Yellow #5. The most upsetting fact on the list? Organic foods CAN contain this artificial food dye. What?!

• Pot calling kettle black alert! The US is getting huffy about China dumping cheap food into U.S. markets. Never mind that we do exactly that all over the world.

• Some essential reading from The Ethicurean: California retailers give FREE fresh produce to WIC recipients. Yum. Plus a liberal helping of information about the state of the WIC program today.

• Yay! Political winds shifting in favor of legalizing pot!!!!