Good stuff coming up this Thursday, Dec. 5. First off: I’ll be introducing The Atlantic’s James Fallows and Corby Kummer at the last MIT Communications Forum event of the year. It’ll run from 5-7 in MIT building 66, room 110. (Map at the link.) Fallows you all know, I think. He’s been national correspondent at The …
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Manly, Sporting Open Food Thread
To continue the sweaty, competitive theme of the day, here’s a Texas Monthly note on “Denton’s Fight to Prevent the Sriracha Apocalypse”: Earlier this week, a pro-environment entity filed a lawsuit to prevent the production of one of our nation’s most important resources. No, not oil or gas. This legal war is being waged over …
If There’s a Hell…
I was raised by a Depression baby so perhaps I’m more sensitive to this kind of thing than most. But I can’t help thinking that when the Edward Gibbon of some future generation, or the scribe of our conquering alien overlords, writes the chronicles of our decline and fall, the packaging of Lean Cuisine “Honestly …
SNAP Cuts (Just in Time for the Holidays, Mr. Scrooge)
This Friday, 48 million people – including 21 million children – will see their food stamp benefits reduced. http://t.co/prq7ZXud2c — BillMoyers.com (@BillMoyersHQ) October 29, 2013 . From Moyers’ link: … Tianna Gaines-Turner recently described the impact of cuts like these in written testimony she submitted to Congressman Paul Ryan’s War on Poverty hearing: “Cutting a …
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Long Read: “Charismatic Megafauna” vs. Locavorism
What’s a hipster to do when the really tasty renewable neighborhood foodstuff is also a local mascot? Marnie Hanel reports for the NYTimes: In the months leading up to the hunt, Dylan Mayer trained twice a week in his parents’ swimming pool, asking friends to attack him, splay their arms and grab him, drag him …
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Leeches on the Public Dole
Via valued commenter Litlebritdifrnt, word of a study that shows who the REAL welfare queens are; summarized as follows at Gawker: The ongoing movement to raise the wages of fast food workers got a boost today from two new reports that attempt to quantify just how much those low wages cost society as a whole. …
Food Insecurity Bleg, Schoolroom Edition
Because sometimes all we can do is bail faster, given the tools available, a message from commentor MomSense: Last night I posted on an open thread about my son telling me about a boy in his class who goes without snack at school and receives food every Friday as part of the backpack program. Some …
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