Food in the news

As you may have read here a few weeks ago, I was lucky to get to spend a week at MIT in Boston studying food issues in the news.

The issues, obviously, affect all of us. We eat. Many of us overeat. We struggle with diet and nutrition and weight and body image, fears of contaminated food, love affairs with foods we should (and shouldn’t) eat. We worry about feeding people who are going hungry. Increasingly, we think about how our eating habits affect a warming planet.

In the North Country, food is especially relevant, because we’re a community of farmers and gardeners and roadside stand frequenters. Food (dairy) is one of the biggest segments of our economy.

One of my goals post-food workshop is to bring more discussion of food to the Inbox. We’ll still be covering, exploring, and experimenting with ideas about local politics, of course. But I hope to offer you a steady diet of what’s making news in the food world, here at home and far away.

I’d love your feedback on this, positive, negative, or whatever (I know you commenters are not shy). And, please, send me relevant links, news, or ideas that you’d like to see covered here. My e-mail is david-at-ncpr-dot-org.