vegetables

The burden of vegetables

Submitted by Michael on Sun, 09/26/2010 - 09:18

The NYT looks at vegetable-eating habits in America, and the trends are not good.

Quoting a study by market researchers the NPD Group, it said that "the number of dinners prepared at home that included a salad was 17 percent; in 1994, it was 22 percent. At restaurants, salads ordered as a main course at either lunch or dinner dropped by half since 1989, to a mere 5 percent."

Subsidizing the good stuff

Submitted by Michael on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 12:22

In "The End of Overeating," Dr. David Kessler sketches this very useful, very accurate image: When customers step up to the McDonald's counter and pull out their $4.50 (or whatever), it's as though Uncle Sam is standing next to them, pulling out his wallet and paying another dollar (or whatever), because of the ways the federal government subsidizes corn.

Garden report, part 2

Submitted by Michael on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 13:48

I don't want to spend too much time on it, but I've also been working three raised beds, and now some pots as well, at home.

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