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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What will be the first deliverable of Pro Food? Will it be the publication of a Pro Food Manual for each step in the food system, from seed to plate? How does one author such a manual? Beside research, conversations, surveys and interviews, one most probably would need to further learn, gather and analyze each and every current practice of the food system, in the field, to determine and define… Continue reading

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By Rob Smart – Published with the author’s permission – original publication date: June 30, 2009

What if I told you that America’s food system is broken? What would you say?

Would you defend it by pointing out the abundance of choices offered in today’s average supermarket, estimated to be over 45,000 items? Would you cite that per capita spending on food has dropped significantly over the… Continue reading

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