Articles everywhere!

Wow, there are articles popping up everywhere this week pertaining to the topics we talked about in class.

From the Civil Eats blog, there's an article about getting the artificial growth hormone-containing milk out of our school lunch program.
http://civileats.com/2009/03/09/grade-a-for-getting-rbgh-out-of-school-milk/

You can go online to Mother Jones magazine and either read or listen to a wonderful interview with Marion Nestle. (I recommend listening to the interview. It's brief but fascinating.)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/10/mojo-audio-chihuahua-coal-mine

Here's an article on the option of tagging livestock in order to trace disease; not a good idea, says the author.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/opinion/11hayes.html

Here are the latest developments on high fructose corn syrup.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/dining/21sugar.html

The latest on this rapidly expanding food movement
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/business/22food.html?emc=eta1

Mark Bittman's latest thoughts or organic or not?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/weekinreview/22bittman.html?emc=eta1

And I'm sure you haven't missed all the publicity surrounding the White House announcement regarding planting a vegetable garden on the White House lawn. What an exciting time to be interested in issues of food!