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Michael Pollan’s Big Idea

September 26, 2009

What critical question has Pollan asked to cause such an uproar?

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Shelved with: Reading the Table|| Food Systems
Tagged With: UW-Madison, Relationship, John Vrieze, In Defense of Food, In Defense of Farmers, food system, Criticism, Carbon Cycle, Michael Pollan, Food
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Poking a Sharp Stick at the Farm

September 24, 2009

As green-clad protesters filled the streets of New York City in protest of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech before the United Nations, a different set of Greens is planning to gather in Madison, Wisconsin this evening. They are farmers, and their grievance, they say, is that they have been misrepresented in Michael Pollan’s books. Pollan’s book on […]

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Shelved with: Reading the Table|| Food Systems
Tagged With: Tom Still, Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Laura Daniels, Food politics, Criticism, Context, Bill Marler, Bill Bruins, Agriculture, Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Michael Pollan
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