MarkBrigham

In WWII, Victory Gardens were promoted as a patriotic way to help ease food shortages. Care to comment on how the 'food movement' could better promote gardening in these modern times? And how to tailor it for our times? Interested from a variety of perspectives: economic, sustainability, food quality, self-sufficiency, and keeping heirloom varieties in the genome.

I totally agree. However, I see another side to hunting & fishing that is a tragedy of modern society. That is: the multi-thousand dollar gun collection; the perceived need for a big SUV or truck to facilitate they hunter's lifestyle; the need to drive long distances from cities and suburbia to one's hunting grounds; buying a chunk of hunting land; the goretex hunting clothes; the fishing boat; etc. Though not everyone falls into these trappings, they definitely are a big part of the hunting & fishing scene today. We're not frontiersman & farmers anymore.

Me: a very occasional fisherman.

Mr. Pollan: I'm appointing you Czar of the Agriculture Department for three days. You get to do one big policy thing each day--abolish a policy; replace a bad policy with a good one; or gin up a completely new policy. What would you do each of those three days?

I've read that half the U.S. food production becomes waste. Nowhere is this more evident than the school lunchroom, where bone-headed policies put crap on schoolkids plates that they will not eat. We need a revolution in the school cafeteria. Serve only food. Mostly fresh. All healthy. Let school kids choose what to take, and urge them to finish what they take. Comments?

Checking it out now. I. Resolarizing the American Farm; II. Reregionalizing the Food System; and III. Rebuilding America’s Food Culture. Nice job.