1. “While perhaps it’s not “broken,” America’s industrial food system, which dominates food sales, has developed side effects that are accelerating in severity, especially diet-related health (e.g., obesity, diabetes, asthma, allergies) and environmental (e.g., chemical toxins, soil degradation, carbon emissions) issues that can no longer be ignored.”
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/03-6

2. “If you think diabetes and obesity are the two biggest health care crises Americans face these days, you’re missing the forest for the trees–literally. Because the roots of all this diet-induced disease lie in two less publicized but even more pernicious epidemics: nature deficit disorder and kitchen illiteracy.”
http://livingliberally.org/eating/blog/Revolution-Will-Not-Be-Petrochemically-Fertilized

3. “Like others, he advocates eating locally grown food. But to Allen, local doesn’t mean a rolling pasture or even a suburban garden: it means 14 greenhouses crammed onto two acres in a working-class neighborhood on Milwaukee’s northwest side, less than half a mile from the city’s largest public-housing project.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/magazine/05allen-t.html?_r=3

Love you all,
Nerissa Oden
www.foodpowers.com