• TOPICS
• Scrapple: Feeding at the National Cafeteria
• Special Guest: Cynthia Sandberg, owner of Love Apple Farm, delivers fresh produce and eggs to Manresa Restaurant in Los Gatos.
• http://www.growbetterveggies.com/
• "How are seeds cultivated and saved?
• How far must food travel before reaching our plate?
• Who gets paid for the food we eat?
• Why does our food taste like this?"
• http://www.southendpress.org/2007/items/87774
• Commentator David Frum says that buying local is laudible, but globalization of the consumer economy has brought unprecedented wealth to more people than ever before. So, do we really want to repeat ancient history?
• http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/15/consumed6_pm_2/
• What is eaten in one week:
• http://ambersbug.zaadz.com/blog (scroll down)

• LINKS
• The Story of Stuff
• "Where our stuff comes from and where it goes to."
• http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html
• The Looming Food Crisis
• http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082907EA.shtml
• "Land that was once used to grow food is increasingly being turned over to biofuels. This may help us to fight global warming - but it is driving up food prices throughout the world and making life increasingly hard in developing countries. Add in water shortages, natural disasters and an ever-rising population, and what you have is a recipe for disaster."
• Pelosi Leads the House to Go Organic in its Cafeterias
• "Out with high-fructose corn syrup and in with uncaged hens and hormone-free milk."
• http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/12/17/MNK0TRJCI.DTL
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
• "What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but ... how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species."
• http://www.michaelpollan.com/omnivore.php

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