Thursday morning roundup

In memory.

One reason it is truly challenging to eat sustainably is that even foods certified "sustainable" sometimes aren't.

Rarely, but sometimes, Michael Pollan just pisses me off. The health care system is the problem, and prevention isn't going to fix everything. I agree with his points, especially about the importance of taking on the food industry, but it's silly to suggest that addressing "our being fatter"--which would help control costs, among other things--will make a dent in the current system. I guess I'm just irked by the way he started the article; we can only hope that real health care reform will turn the health care industry into a formidable lobbying opponent to Big Food.

Speaking of the food industry, this does not bode well for reform.

Gail Collins says,

"Let me go out on a limb and say that it is not a good plan to heckle the president of the United States when he’s making a speech about replacing acrimony with civility."