food politics

Book Review: Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal — Joel Salatin

As a visionary and creative entrepreneur working outside the government- and university-sponored system, Joel Salatin’s efforts are continually hampered and his livelihood threatened. Everything he wants to do to provide clean, safe, humanely raised food to local consumers is illegal.

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Book Review: Against the Grain — Richard Manning

Food Politics

Richard Manning does a fine job in journalist style of putting forth the various elements that led to the adoption of agriculture and the problems it is causing both humans and the planet. Manning covers such diverse subjects as the development of the human brain, famine, cannibalism, diseases of agriculture, food taboos and fads, and how grains came to dominate the American landscape.

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Book Review: The Untold Story of Milk — Ron Schmid, MD

Food Politics

Raw milk is probably the only way most people will be willing and able to consume raw animal fats and proteins–macronutrients in their natural, unadulterated forms–as well as enzymes and numerous vitamins and minerals. Milk from healthy, pasture-fed cows is sun-drenched grass transmuted into a nutrient-dense liquid.

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Why Does Our Government Hate Raw Milk?

Food Politics

A demand for raw milk clearly exists in this country, and the FDA is charged with ensuring the safety of this product. You’d think they’d be trying to work with farmers to help them comply with regulatory safety requirements. But they apparently have another agenda.

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Do You Have a Constitutional Right to Choose What to Eat?

Food Politics

Our government doesn’t think we have a right to control the food that goes into our mouths. In the name of safety, the federal government entangles itself illegally into what is the states’ responsibility. Is this really because of safety issues or is it an economic decision based on which industry has the most dollars to lobby and contribute to political campaigns?

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Book Review: The Raw Milk Revolution–David E. Gumpert

Food Politics

The right to drink raw milk is a battle amongst the raw milk consumers, health authorities, dairy interests, the unfortunate few who have fallen sick after drinking raw milk, the legal agencies who represent them all, and the raw milk diary farmer just trying to realize a dream. In The Raw Milk Revolution, journalist David Gumpert reports on the issues surrounding this controversial food.

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Book Review: Beating the Food Giants — Paul Stitt

Food Politics

In this informative and well-written book you’ll get an insider’s view of the unethical practices, greed, and disregard for human life and health by the food industry. You’ll also learn some of the ways that inferior nutrition leads to disease.

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Food Safety and the Future of the Family Farm

Food Politics

The health of your body and mind is directly tied to the health and quality of the food you consume. And you have a right to choose what food you want and from whom you want to buy it. Our government continually wants to step in in the name of “safety” and place onerous financial and logistical burdens on those who can least afford them: the family farmer.

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