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January 30, 2011 So picking up immediately where we left off last week, I will say of Pollan what I said of Shiva: It matters that we get the details right. And just as I have been irked by Shiva, there are people who seem to be obsessed with correcting Michael Pollan’s factual errors and misleading [...] January 23, 2011 So January Oh Eleven is shaping up to be food ethics icons month, which gives me an opportunity to go back to a blog topic I had thought about last year. Back on April 12, 2010 a noted food author came to Michigan State University to give a talk in the university lecture [...] January 16, 2011 Classes cranked up again at Michigan State University last week. This semester I’m teaching a graduate course organized around the “the animal” and “the human” understood as metaphysical divide. I realize that this has got to be the kind of topic that strikes people as utterly bizarre. On the one hand, it means [...] January 9, 2011 Terry Link replied to my blog last week offline, suggesting an alternative view of Borlaug and the Green Revolution contributed by Vandana Shiva. It’s a piece that I am very familiar with, and interested readers can find it here. I knew Borlaug well enough that we would always greet each other when meeting [...] January 2, 2011 I spent a chunk of time over the last week reading Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman (2009). It is in many respects informative and well-written. Thurow and Kilman are Wall Street Journal reporters who have strung together and expanded on a [...] |
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