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Two months ago, I sent a note to my congressman, George Radanovich (California’s 19th Congressional District), asking him about his impending vote on the Health Care Reform bill. Today, I received a message from him. Here it is, with my response to him…

” Dear Friend:

Thank you for contacting me regarding H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. I appreciate hearing your thoughts and concerns… Continue reading

Earlier today, a small business owner friend of mine sent me this message:

“Glad to see you are blogging again. I don’t know much at all about the new health care bill, but based on what I learned the other day on a restaurant focused webinar this is what I think: You, a self-employed business owner without employees are probably winners. We, having less than 50 full-time employees, with… Continue reading

10 THINGS EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM

1. Once reform is fully implemented, over 95% of Americans will have health insurance coverage, including 32 million who are currently uninsured.2

2. Health insurance companies will no longer be allowed to deny people coverage because of preexisting conditions—or to drop coverage when people become sick.3

3. Just like members of Congress, individuals and small businesses who can’t afford to… Continue reading

My Friend Liz (@hyperlocavore), posted this very cool video on facebook earlier today. Well worth the time, it is also entertaining and, most likely, eye opening for many city dwellers. Enjoy! More details at http://cookingupastory.com/novella-carpenter-e-interview … Continue reading

On Wednesday, at a town hall meeting in Chickasha, Oklahoma, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) told his audience that he was not going to read America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R.3200): “I don’t have to read it, or know what’s in it. I’m going to oppose it anyways.”

“I don’t have to read it, or know what’s in it”? Yes, Senator, you have to know… Continue reading

This is in response to a recently published article “Who Owns Good Food” by Zachary Adam Cohen on the Huffington Post. Being too lengthy, this comment exceeded the 250 word limitation of the blog, hence this post.

Nothing can be accomplished in the effort to reshape our food system from a broken, misdirected trajectory to a sustainable triple bottom line system, without shedding old… Continue reading

Movie Review by Flo Martin

The title says it all: the couple in the film is composed of Julie, a New Yorker who turns thirty, and lives with her husband Eric in Queens over a pizzeria, and Julia, sixty years her senior, who experienced post World War II Paris and its delights (however, we never see the grunginess of the Paris of the time that is so vivid in… Continue reading

If you live in the United States, you probably know someone, or of someone, in a similar situation. Reforming health care is not about socialism, not about bigger government or even about freedom; it’s about having access to health care whatever your means may be. No health care system is perfect; not even in other industrialized countries where access to medical care is a right; but in no industrialized country is… Continue reading

My friend Zachary, of Farm to Table, sent me this very cool video. I just HAD to share it with you all

A Farm Grows in Brooklyn…on a Rooftop! from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo

YES, I am a city boy, born and raised in the great city of Paris, France… actually, that’s not all of it… I was also raised in Northern France, eight miles away from the Belgian border, in the French Ardennes, where my mother’s parents showed me what it was like to live way back when… I spent my first sixteen summers in a small village of no more than two… Continue reading

The filmic narrative of Fresh, punctuated by interviews with author Michael Pollan, delivers a carefully crafted didactic message: the industrial agro-business as we know it, replete as it is with noxious pesticides, animal concentration camps, monocultures that exhaust vast expanses of land, is an unsustainable paradox. While it aims at feeding us all at a low price, it depletes the land and poisons us with mutated strains of various bacteria… Continue reading

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