Michael On
Michael On
unions tests campaigns
What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.
apples hungry enough
If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.
rewards daydreaming form
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
letting-go offending people
There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.
leader journalism bigs
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
desire human-nature consciousness
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
political energy audience
The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.
vegetables talking waiting
It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you wait until you can afford organic, or you can find organic.
party agreement two
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
lines today eating
The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
vegetables eating illness
One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.
hopeful significant percentages
I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.
political eating eco
Eating is a political act.
responsibility opportunity issues
Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks, either by positively going for certain kinds of foods or rejecting other kinds of foods, they realize that this is a responsibility and an opportunity to shape the world a little bit by their own choices.