So What Are Some of Your “Food Rules?”

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Hope you have a wonderful Fourth of July!  I just finished Michael Pollan’s book “Food Rules.”  It’s an extremely quick read.  I agreed with some and disagreed with others.  It got me thinking:  what are some of the “food rules” that my readers use? When I interned with the American Simmental Association (“ASA”) in Bozeman, Montana many moons ago, Dr. …

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What Is On My Bookshelf: Ag Book Club

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It’s been quite a while since my last Ag Book Club discussion.  If you are a new reader to this blog, I got the idea a year ago to finally get organized and read the literature discussing or criticizing the U.S. food and agriculture industry in some way.  We discussed the movie Food Inc., and the books Omnivore’s Dilemma, Eating …

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Need an Excuse to Finally Watch Food Inc.?

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I admit that I have been proscrastinating myself- afterall, it will just be another movie that will misrepresent modern agriculture.  However, as I have said time and time again on this blog I think it is important for those involved in the agriculture to watch movies like Food Inc. and read books by Michael Pollan and Jonathan Foer (just to …

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Posting a Discussion Wave on Food Inc.

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Last night there was an online discussion of Michael Pollan’s notorious book Omnivore’s Dilemma on google wave.  It is my opinion that google wave is better used for a discussion thread over time instead for a real-time conversation in one evening.  Therefore, I went ahead and posted a discussion “wave” for the movie Food Inc.  I think it would be …

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Discussion Thread Started For Omnivore’s Dilemma on Google Wave

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I have started a discussion thread on Michael Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma on google wave.  If you are on “the wave” and would like to join the discussion thread, please add me to your contacts at cari.rincker@googlewave.com.  The real time conversation will be Wednesday at 8pm ET but in the meantime, feel free to post your thoughts under each …

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Starting Agriculture Book Club

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On yesterday’s post, I mentioned the idea of forming a book club in your community to discuss mainstream literature criticizing modern agriculture and discuss the misconceptions in the literature and how the agriculture community should address these misconceptions.  For those of you who are interested in this, I am starting an agriculture book club that will read through these books …

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