Teaching pregnant women not to share food with their families. Strictly From Hunger This is the story of an obscure $250 million a year program run by the Department of Agriculture which attempts, among other things, to cure both obesity and underweight in pregnant women by providing the same amounts of food, including commercial junk […]
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How rice is planted in the United States
Consider…the technology involved in planting rice in southwest Louisiana. It was morning at the Jennings Municipal Airport in Jefferson Davis Parish, which is part of the seventh congressional district, the largest rice-producing district in the country. A group of men talked about the previous night’s tornadoes and hauled hundred-pound sacks of seed rice from the […]
Exclusive: Former USDA Secretary explains why he said there was not enough food to feed the American people
This 1986 unedited interview with Earl Butz [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz] took place nearly 10 years after he resigned in disgrace as Secretary of Agriculture for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. It also took place after Butz, as a private citizen, had served a brief term in federal prison for income tax evasion. The interview contains Butz’s […]
The Politics of Food the book; its stories and the future
Not boring, as it should be, this site contains the entire book which took me 10 years to write. The book received good reviews. Also, you can listenn to an exclusive revealing interview never before made public with Earl Butz, the greatest Secretary of Agriculture since Henry Wallace. (Wallace served two terms as FDR’s vice […]