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Short film: The People’s Grocery

Posted on Jan 29, 2010 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Media/Videos, Organic Gardening, Susie Collins

Food justice: The People’s Grocery in West Oakland is an inspiration to communities everywhere about the importance of a healthy diet and about knowing where your food comes from. Director of the project Brahm Ahmadi is a hero!

In West Oakland, California, where liquor stores have replaced markets, People’s Grocery is creating a healthy alternative, offering access to organic produce. Through urban gardens and local farms, People’s Grocery supports a culture based on connection to the land, sustainable agricultural practices, and regenerating community.

Brahm Ahmadi is the co-founder and executive director of People’s Grocery. He has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California and is an MBA candidate at the Presidio School of Management. Brahm combines social enterprise, cooperative economics, urban agriculture, public education and youth development to build healthy and stable inner city communities. He is also Executive Director of the North Oakland Land Trust, which preserves properties in North Oakland for the exclusive purpose of community gardening.

Link (A great site with oodles of online films to watch!)

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Tags: Children's Health, Environmental Health, Food, Healthy Living, Organic, Video, Work

Xtrema cooking

Posted on Jan 20, 2010 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Products, Susie Collins

Founder of Xtrema cookware says it’s made of nontoxic material that can be left on the heat indefinitely and not emit toxic fumes even if boiled bone dry.

This Xtrema cookware looks interesting, coated in a nontoxic ceramic glaze that will not emit toxic fumes even if cooked bone dry on high heat. The high heat safety factor is in comparison to Teflon, which studies show emits dangerous toxic fumes when overheated. Xtrema also claims their nylon lids and utensils are nontoxic.

Feature: High temperature, ultra-durable non- scratch finish, inside and out.

Benefit: Xtrema products feature a revolutionary and technologically advanced ceramic non-scratch ceramic glaze on the inside and outside of every vessel. This ceramic-glaze consists of 100% natural ceramic materials and is completely environmentally safe. The glaze will never emit gaseous or toxic odors (at any temperature), it will not be damaged by the use of metal cooking utensils, and will never peel or flake off into the food. The ceramic glaze on the outside of the cookware also provides faster clean-up and helps keep Xtrema cookware looking brand new, year after year.

The flash graphic on the header on their website is a little scary: thick black smoke curling and swirling. But they say their product is as nontoxic as they come.

The founder of Xtrema is Rich Bergstrom, a former Corning representative. I love my Corning baking dish–I’ve had it for 30 years–and I often recommend Corning to canaries asking about cookware. Bergstrom has something interesting to say about Corning:

Corning Ware manufacturing facility in Martinsburg, WV was closed and dismantled in 2002. Corning Ware is still being marketed today by World Kitchen but the product is now being made of stoneware and not the patented pyro-ceram material that made Corning Ware so recognizable.

Hmmm. Not sure I can recommend that product anymore, at least not until I am convinced the new material is as superior and nontoxic as the old Corning. Is anyone using Corning purchased after 2002?

Has anyone tried Xtrema? It’s not cheap. This darling tea set is $129 and their most basic skillet about $100. But I think it’s going on my wish list. Right after the new HEPA air filter and organic cotton futon for the bedroom.

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Tags: Children's Health, Food, Healthy Living, Home, Indoor Pollution, Nontoxic, Products

Short film: The Story of Food

Posted on Jan 19, 2010 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Media/Videos, Susie Collins

USC Canada’s new short, animated film will get you thinking about our broken food system.

It identifies what’s gone wrong with the modern food system, and what we can do to rebuild it.

Link to more info about the film.

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Tags: Chemicals, Environment, Food, Garden, Health, Healthy Living, Organic, Products, Video

Feeding a flock

Posted on Aug 26, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Kimberly Shaw

Making an easy home-cooked meal for friends and family can be challenging with food sensitivities.

Post by Kimberly Shaw.

When my daughters are all home for a visit we have a mixture of food sensitivities, allergies and other special considerations. If you add my mother and mother-in-law to the mix, we have even more foods to avoid. It is an adventure to plan a meal that is fairly easy to make and yet enjoyable for all.

I generally go for a themed build-your-own meal, two of my favorite being Southwestern and Italian. Then I set up a yummy buffet and people can pick items what works for them. I try and have options for vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

Southwestern Feast
“Build your own soft taco or taco salad”

Buffet items (organic, if possible):

Tortillas (organic wheat, organic corn and/or organic brown rice)
Mixed green salad
Diced tomatoes
Sliced avocados and/or guacamole
Sliced olives
Sliced or shredded carrots or other vegetables
Cooked brown rice or Mexican style rice
Salsa (can make fruit salsa, if you cannot have tomatoes)
Cheese (cow, goat, soy, and/or rice)
Sour cream or yogurt (milk or soy)
Cilantro
Unseasoned cooked ground beef, ground turkey, shredded chicken and/or tofu
Black beans
Pinto beans

Italian
“Build your own pasta”

Pasta (organic wheat and/or a gluten-free pasta)
Steamed shredded organic zucchini – to use as “pasta” for those who cannot have any type pasta

Sauces – Pesto *, buy or make a tomato based sauce with or without added meat, and/or an Alfredo sauce. *Omit nuts or cheese, if allergic. I just make one with olive oil, basil and garlic.

Serve with steamed vegetables and/or a salad.

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Tags: Food, Healthy Living, Home, MCS, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Organic

Working with a health coach: Week One

Posted on Aug 12, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Susie Collins

This week’s focus: At 52 years old, my brain and body need readily available fuel starting first thing in the morning; no more going without food until the afternoon.

A couple weeks ago, Canary Report contributor Keith Carlson, aka Nurse Keith, left a message on our network asking for a volunteer to coach during his life coach training.

I am doing a 5-week life coach training, and I need a willing person to be my first “client” for three free coaching sessions. Would anyone out there be potentially interested in participating as my “coachee”?

Following this preliminary training, my wife Mary and I will be “hanging a virtual shingle” as health and wellness coaches, and our first clients of 2009 will receive the benefits of our many years of experience and expertise at a very reasonable rate!

I jumped at the chance to work with Keith! He’s making some major life and career changes right now, and I welcome the opportunity to support him in his time of transition. Plus, I’d get some coaching that would be of great benefit. It’s a win-win!

So I’ve just completed my first week into the coaching. During our first phone consultation last week Wednesday, we decided that we’d work on my eating habits. One of my worst habits is not eating at all in the morning but instead filling up on huge mugs of tea and soy milk. I don’t usually eat until about one o’clock in the afternoon. While I’ve been able to get away with this my whole life, I am discovering that my 52-year-old body is no longer truly happy with the arrangement.

Previously, I’ve had no motivation whatsoever to change this habit. I’m not really that interested in food, and to be honest, except for dinner each evening with my husband, I am slightly annoyed that I have to take time out from whatever I am doing to eat. I usually shove something in my mouth while standing up, eating just enough to keep from getting hypoglycemic, and rushing back to whatever task is at hand whether it be work in the office or out in the gardens. In my mind, my adherence to mostly whole organic food seems to justify this behavior.

Well, it simply must stop. My brain and body now need readily available fuel starting first thing in the morning, with subsequent meals and snacks sustaining me throughout the day. It was interesting having the discussion with Keith about motivation, because I am in no way motivated to change this habit merely for my own benefit. But when Keith pointed out that if I had better fuel in me all morning, the people with whom I come in contact would benefit– that’s what sparked my interest. If my brain and body had better fuel, I could work faster and with more clarity during those morning hours, and then slide into the afternoon without the jarring realization that I was running on empty.

I truly enjoyed our hour-long talk and look forward to our next weekly coaching session this afternoon. Keith is caring, compassionate and knowledgeable about health and well being, and as a registered nurse, he has years of experience under his belt on health issues. And because he also has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, as do I, he relates to the added burden that someone like myself endures.

I think the most important concept I came away with during out first talk is about being “intentional” in changing the habit. Keith explained that you have to do a new habit for at least 21 days before it starts to dislodge the old routine. I thought, “Yeah, I can intentionally do this for three weeks!” So we came up with a new routine, which I put in place (mostly) this past week. The new routine also encompasses the surrounding activities to my morning meal, setting me up to intentionally ease into my day, rather than bolting out of bed and going straight to the computer.

1. Get up out of bed, put my feet on the floor, raise my arms up above my head, fingers laced, stretch up and and take a deep breath. Connect with earth and sky and signal my body that we are up!

2. Go to the bathroom, brush teeth, wash face.

3. Change clothes.

4. Make the bed.

5. Go make my tea, then sit down and have something to eat! I’ve been having these types of things: English muffins, yogurt, banana, and/or oatmeal with fruit, photo above.

6. Go outside and feed the chickens.

7. Come back in and go into the office.

The whole routine takes less than 20 minutes. I will admit that I messed up on a couple of days and discovered late morning that I had not eaten. But I will also freely admit that on the mornings when I remembered to do the routine, I felt great! I never reached the stress level in early afternoon of my body being completely depleted of fuel. And that’s such a good thing!

Thanks, Keith!

Keith Carlson, RN, blogs at Digital Doorway.

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Tags: Food, Healthy Living, MCS, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Organic, Support

Summer soups

Posted on Jul 31, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Kimberly Shaw

Soups are easy to make in the morning before it gets too hot outside. Then all you have to do is heat them up later for a lazy summer day lunch or dinner.

Post by Kimberly Shaw.

Here are two of my favorite summer soups:

Lentil Soup

8 cups filter water or organic vegetable broth*
1 clove organic garlic, minced
1 medium organic onion, chopped
2 large organic carrots, chopped
2 stalks organic celery, chopped
1 ½ cups organic dried lentils
1 ½ teaspoons fresh organic thyme or ½ teaspoon dried organic thyme
1 tablespoon fresh organic oregano or 1 teaspoon dried organic oregano
2 tablespoons fresh organic parsley, chopped
1 teaspoon paprika (if you can use, otherwise omit)
½ teaspoon sea salt

In soup pot, bring water or broth to boil. Add garlic, onion, carrots, celery and lentils. Return to boil. If using dried herbs, add them. Simmer and cover on low heat for 60 minutes. If using fresh herbs, add the fresh thyme and oregano during the last five minutes. After removing from heat, stir in the parsley.

Makes about 4 servings. This soup also freezes well.

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Chicken, Cilantro and Lime Soup

Basic recipe:
1 medium organic onion, chopped
2 teaspoons organic extra virgin olive oil
8 cups filter water or organic low-salt chicken or vegetable broth or stock*
2 cooked organic chicken breasts, cut into pieces
1 cup organic zucchini, diced
¼ cup organic cilantro, chopped
1/3 cup organic lime juice
sea salt and pepper to taste (if you can use pepper)

If you can have corn, add:
1 cup organic whole-kernel corn

If you are not avoiding nightshades, add:
1 medium organic green bell pepper, chopped
1 large organic tomato, chopped

In large soup pot, saute onion (and bell pepper, if using) in olive oil on low to medium heat until tender, about 6 minutes. Then add water, stock or broth, chicken, zucchini (and corn and tomatoes, if using) and heat to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered about 20 minutes. Remove from heat and add cilantro and lime. Season to taste with sea salt and pepper, if desired.

You can garnish with organic cilantro, organic lime slices and/or organic avocado.

Makes 4-6 servings, depending on extra ingredients added.

*In the winter I like to make my own stock, but in the summer I tend to go for “easy” and avoid heating up the stove and kitchen as much as possible. There are several brands of organic broths available at health food stores. Please check ingredients carefully, as some contain nightshades and even possibly hidden MSG. When I am not making my own, I tend to do well with Imagine Foods Organic Low Sodium Chicken Broth or Imagine Foods Organic Low Sodium Vegetable Broth (this does contain tomato).

To make your own broth, here are some easy recipes:

Cheap Like Me

Vegan YumYum

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Tags: Children's Health, Environmental Health, Food, Healthy Living, Home, Organic

Genetically modified, conventionally grown or organic?

Posted on Jul 26, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Kimberly Shaw

For those with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, it is very important to avoid GM produce.

Post by Kimberly Shaw.

About 70% of grocery store foods now contain genetically modified ingredients. For those with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, it is very important to avoid GM produce. If your body does not recognize a food it will treat it as a foreign agent. This often results in allergic or other adverse reactions.

Sometimes it is hard to tell how an item is grown.

For produce or animal products, just check the PLU code on the package or sticker:

* Has a four-digit number – “Conventionally Grown”
* Has a five-digit number beginning with 9 – “Organically Grown”
* Has a five-digit number beginning with 8 – “Genetically Modified” (GM)

Avoid processed drinks and foods. Most of them contain GM ingredients, unless they are organic.

Avoid farm-raised fish and conventionally raised meat and chicken.

For more information:

Seeds of Deception

What are the dangers of genetically modified foods, and what are GMOs, anyway?

Photo by Susie Collins

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Tags: Chemicals, Children's Health, Environmental Health, Food, Healthy Living, Home, Law, MCS, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Nontoxic, Organic, Policy, Products, Toxic

Enjoying simple pleasures

Posted on Jul 19, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Kimberly Shaw

“Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.” -Oscar Wilde

Post by Kimberly Shaw.

(Editor’s note: Please help me welcome Kimberly Shaw as a contributor at The Canary Report! Kimberly blogs at Adventurous Canary and is an author, educator, filmmaker and natural health consultant. She’s currently making a film documentary about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. She’ll blog here at The Canary Report on organic food, easy-to-make recipes, herbs, personal care products, and the enjoyment of everyday life in the midst of allergies and sensitivities. You can read her full bio here. Welcome, Kimberly! Aloha, Susie)

For many with food allergies and sensitivities it feels like a love-hate relationship when it comes to eating. We may love food, but hate the way it makes us feel or react. For some it feels like treading through a minefield to find something we can actually eat and enjoy.

It is easy to focus on what we cannot eat. Sometimes it is depressing to consider all that we need to avoid. I have found if I dwell on the “no list” I miss enjoying the “yes list.”

When I focus on what I can eat, meals can become an everyday celebration! Just the simple act of appreciating and savoring simple foods becomes something to enjoy, not something to dread.

I may not be able to have many of the ingredients in a fine gourmet meal, but I can wash some organic cherries, make some organic tea, get out a favorite bowl, sit outside in the breeze and slowly relish each bite. While you might not be able to have cherries or tea, there are some things on your “yes list” that you can enjoy.

Oscar Wilde once said, “Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.”

In our complex world, especially of avoidance, let’s celebrate and enjoy the simple pleasures, the foods we can eat!

Photo by Kimberly Shaw.

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Tags: Food, Healthy Living, Home, Leisure, MCS, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Organic

Film: The Future of Food

Posted on Jul 19, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Media/Videos

Film offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

Click on link at end of post to view entire film. Here’s the first 10 minutes.

Link to film’s website.

Click here to view the entire film (one hour, 30 minutes).

Thanks, Ruth!

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Tags: Chemicals, Environment, Environmental Health, EPA, FDA, Food, Healthy Living, Law, Organic, Pesticides, Policy, Pollution, Products, Research, Toxic, Video

Help launch What’sOnMyFood? website

Posted on Jun 18, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Government Regulation, Home & Garden

The Pesticide Action Network launches interactive website.

The Pesticide Action Network reports:

Today we launched PAN’s new What’sOnMyFood? website.

The searchable site reveals what pesticides are found on which foods, in what amount, and – for the first time – links pesticide residues to the health effects associated with exposure to each of the chemicals.

Spread the Word » What’sOnMyFood? is an outreach tool meant to build momentum toward real pesticide reform — we need your help to make it work!

In addition to highlighting the health risks of pesticide residues, the What’sOnMyFood? database points to the hazards of pesticide use before food even reaches the kitchen table. By taking readers deeper into the public problem of pesticides, the site shows how widespread use of agricultural chemicals threatens the health of workers and rural communities, as well as harming wildlife and contaminating ecosystems.

Examples of pesticides facts found with What’sOnMyFood?

• 22 different pesticides were found on one strawberry sample.
• 79% of conventionally produced carrots contain linuron, a pesticide known to cause developmental or reproductive health problems.

Share this tool with 3 friends today! » Thank you for helping us launch this important new website.

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Tags: Chemicals, Children's Health, Environment, EPA, FDA, Food, Pesticides, Policy, Products, Research, Toxic, Water, Work

Movie: Food, Inc., opening June 12

Posted on Jun 11, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Media/Videos

We’ve never had food companies this powerful in our history.

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

Link

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Tags: Children's Health, Environment, Environmental Health, FDA, Film, Food, Indoor Pollution, Law, Organic, Pesticides, Policy, Products, Toxic, Video

Coca-Cola and Del Monte plot to deceive you

Posted on Jun 04, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Government Regulation, Home & Garden

Food and chemical lobbyists meet in Washington, DC, to save BPA, plan PR campaign to include pregnant woman as spokesperson.

The Environmental Working Group calls Coca-Cola and Del Monte on their BS about BPA.

We caught Coca-Cola and Del Monte plotting to deceive you about the dangers of BPA.

Last week food and chemical lobbyists met in Washington, DC to save BPA – they’re desperate to block state and federal efforts to regulate their $6 billion industry.

We were shocked when we read internal meeting minutes that revealed an unethical strategy to keep your family eating and drinking from BPA-laden containers. To get the full story, see our Enviroblog.

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QUESTION: Which of these tactics did BPA industry lobbyists concoct?

1. Employing fear tactics like threatening consumers with limited access to affordable baby food.
2. Using a “pregnant young mother who would be willing to speak around the country about the benefits of BPA” as their ‘holy grail’ spokesperson.
3. Focusing fear tactics on historically exploited populations including “Hispanic and African Amercians and the poor.”
4. “Befriending people that are able to manipulate the legislative process.”
5. All of the above.

ANSWER: (E) All of the above. Ready to fight back? So are we.

Call now to demand no BPA

Coca-Cola: 1-800-GET-COKE, ext. 2
Del Monte: 1-800-543-3090

Sample script:

“Hello, My name is ______________. I’m shocked and disappointed in your unethical approach to business when it comes to BPA – placing profits ahead of my family’s health and using fear tactics to placate consumers about a clearly dangerous chemical. BPA needs to go – NOW. Thank you.”

After you call. . .

1. Tell us about it. Send EWG an email describing the conversation.
2. Get your friends to call. Use our tell-a-friend to ask your friends to call today.
3. Donate to EWG so we can keep these big corporations from profiting off your family’s health.

Thank you for calling. Now the BPA industry lobbyists know that yet another consumer will not stand for their unethical tactics.

In partnership,

Richard Wiles
Executive Director, EWG Action Fund

Link to Environmental Working Group’s website.

Link to EWG’s blog Enviroblog.

Photo credit.

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Tags: Chemicals, Children's Health, Food, Home, Policy, Products

The controversial science of diet and health

Posted on May 04, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Guest Bloggers, Home & Garden, Media/Videos

Book review: Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease by Gary Taubes.

Post by Rachel MacIntyre.

“A vitally important book, destined to change the way we think about food.” — Michael Pollan.

According to the CDC, over TWO-THIRDS of our country is overweight or obese. The American Cancer Society now estimates that one in two men and one in three women will have some form of invasive cancer in their lives. In 2007, it was estimated that 23.6 MILLION (!) people in this country have diabetes, 90-95% of those being type 2 diabetics. These statistics are staggering! And, yet, to some degree they are of little surprise when one considers what children are being served in school lunches and the fact that healthy fruits and vegetables make up only 10% of our daily caloric intake as a nation.

We are a country that is increasingly fueled by white flour, white sugar, white potatoes, and white rice with a boatload of preservatives and chemicals thrown in. Combine this with a basically sedentary lifestyle and is it really any wonder that we are so ill?

In my never ending quest to keep up with the latest science involving food, I ran across a book that had me immediately intrigued. The book is called Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease by Gary Taubes. Mr. Taubes has spent the better part of the last 15 years as an investigative journalist covering public health issues and spent over five years researching the information that went into this book. The information is pretty incredible. Among other things, he discovered that:

Dietary fat, saturated or otherwise, was not the cause of heart disease
Consuming refined carbohydrates may very well be the cause of Alzheimer’s Disease and cancer
Obesity is caused by excess fat accumulation, not overeating
Consuming excess calories doesn’t make us fatter – carbohydrates DO.

To read a great synopsis about the book, check out this article written by Taubes himself.

This excerpt was originally published at my blog The Friendly Kitchen.

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Vilsack surprises critics

Posted on May 02, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Policy

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack adds a garden at the USDA and asked all USDA offices to put in gardens, too.

The Demoines Register reports Tom Vilsack’s approach as ag secretary surprises critics.

Washington, D.C. – The World War II-era poster that faces Tom Vilsack’s desk should provide a clue that he may not be the kind of agriculture secretary expected of a former governor of Iowa, the land of big, high-tech grain and hog farms.

The poster says: “Let’s All Grow Vegetables.”

In his first 100 days in office, Vilsack has surprised his early detractors, who feared he would be too close to agribusiness.

In what is supposed to be a symbol of the Obama administration’s new priorities, Vilsack started an organic vegetable garden in front of the Agriculture Department near one of the more prominent spots for tourists in Washington, the subway stop that serves the Smithsonian museums.

In another key move, Kathleen Merrigan, a university professor who helped create the national program for certifying organic food, was installed as deputy secretary at the USDA.

Vilsack also demonstrated an early willingness to take on the USDA’s traditional constituency among conventional farm interests. He called meatpackers in and told them to adhere to more strict procedures for labeling pork and beef from foreign sources, and he pitched a proposed cut in farm subsidies as vital to funding better nutrition for poor children.

“He has a much broader understanding of agriculture and food systems than I think some of his critics had expected,” said Ben Lilliston of the Institute for Agriculture and Food Policy, a group that advocates a shift to smaller-scale, diversified farms that rely less on chemical inputs and biotechnology.

Lilliston said the USDA’s organic garden is a powerful symbol showing that the department now “recognizes and values the importance of people growing their own food and connecting with food in a deeper way.”

Link to full story at The Demoines Register.

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Tags: Food, Garden, Organic, USDA

Super Size Me

Posted on Apr 26, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Food, Home & Garden, Media/Videos

Super Size Me, the movie, now on YouTube in it’s entirety!

This movie can be a life-changing film for some. Two canary wings up!

Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject in this documentary about the commercial food industry. Rigorously eating a diet of McDonald’s fast food three times a day for a month straight, Spurlock is out to prove the physical and mental effects of consuming fast food. Spurlock also provides a look at the food culture in America through its schools, corporations, and politics as seen through the eyes of both ordinary citizens and health advocates.

Link

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Tags: Children's Health, FDA, Film, Food, Policy, Products, Video