Tweet This Food Pyramid infographic has been making the rounds lately, asking the question “Why does a salad cost more than a Big Mac?” The answer it suggests is that government funding for the meat and dairy industries makes bad foods cheap. Sound familiar? These pyramids have been widely lambasted for engaging in bad graphic [...]
TweetMy friend and I once spent some time scoping out the local supermarket, trying to find the cheapest calories in the store. The results were probably what you’d expect – you can get more bang for your buck with a bag of marshmallows than you can a box of crackers or some veggies. And is [...]
TweetOver the holiday weekend, I spent some time with friends one afternoon, and we decided to Netflix a movie. Netflix is a verb now, right? In any case, we decided on Food, Inc., a documentary about our country’s agriculture system. For those of you familiar with Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, this is basically [...]
TweetLots of good infographics to be found across the web, intending to explain complex issues bite-sized visual chunks. We start with “Global Warming Skeptics vs The Scientific Consensus” from the Information is Beautiful blog. Despite the clear agenda by the designer, it does a nice job of introducing the various debates surrounding man’s impact on [...]
TweetNature is a series of connections. We recognized this when we moved from the “food chain” concept to a “food web,” each component intimately tied through consumption or waste to many others. Many of our industrial processes and systems have lost sight of that interconnectivity. We have inputs and outputs for a thousand tiny processes, [...]
TweetPoptech hosted foodie favorite Michael Pollan for an excellent talk that you cannot miss. Pollan wrote The Omnivore’s Dilemma, tracing four meals from farm to fork. It’s an eye opening look at our agricultural systems, and he does an excellent job at uncovering the hidden origin of the food we eat. Not a reader? Well [...]
