The Food Issue

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The Food Issue
Farmer in Chief
http://www.durgan.org/ShortURL/?VYPFH This is a nine page article from the NY Times, which may take some effort, but probably will tingle your thought process.

http://www.durgan.org/ShortURL/?IJYNM One Page version.

The twinned crises in food and energy are creating a political environment in which real reform of the food system may actually be possible for the first time in a generation.

The American people are paying more attention to food today than they have in decades, worrying not only about its price but about its safety, its provenance and its healthfulness.

There is a gathering sense among the public that the industrial-food system is broken. Markets for alternative kinds of food — organic, local, pasture-based, humane — are thriving as never before.