The Food News gang in Canada have sent along two complementary articles, one suggesting what farming in a post-oil economy might look like, and one that shows that the oil economy, and the way we grow food through it, is giving us less nutritious food. Won't post the text of these, but do jump on over to the respective sites.

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Posted on 2 October, 2007 - 23:20

It's a sign. As I write this post, two of Michael Pollan's books - The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore's Dilemma have randomly been spat out into the right column there by the LibraryThing widget.

And Pollan, the doyen of food writing, is back in a big way this week - his fantastic, and latest, piece in the NY Times Magazine is the most emailed article at the moment. Read about the rise of 'nutritionism" here. ... read more »

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Posted on 31 January, 2007 - 18:36

An early-era Monty Python sketch has a scene in a bed shop in which all the staff are perfectly normal, but for the fact that you need to divide what they say by ten, or multiply it by two, or not say the word 'mattress'.

And today, as often before, reality has matched the Pythons .

From the open-access journal PLoS Medicine comes an article showing that industry-supported soft-drink science is nearly eight times more likely to conclude that its sponsor's product are beneficial compared to independently funded studies. ... read more »

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Posted on 9 January, 2007 - 18:12