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Aug. 21, 2009
Sizing Up Sustainable Food
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| These days, grocery shoppers are scrutinizing more than prices -- some are looking to see how many miles their squash and pork chops traveled. But some say focusing on food miles isn’t the best way to ‘go green’ in the grocery store. So what is the best way to eat sustainably? Author Michael Pollan and others discuss. |
Produced by Laura Pelcher
Guests
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James McWilliams
Author, "Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly"
Associate Professor of History
Texas State University
Austin, Texas -
Michael Pollan
Author, "In
Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" (Penguin Press HC, 2008)
Contributing Writer, The
New York Times Magazine
Knight Professor of Journalism,
University of California
Berkeley, California -
Brian Halweil
Author, "Eat Here"(W. W. Norton & Company 2004)
Senior Researcher
World Watch Institute
Sag Harbor, New York
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Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
by James E. McWilliams
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket (The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)
by Brian Halweil
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