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"How to eat a peach" -- another must read, wonderful and for some reason overlooked. Exactly on topic.

Why is organic food more expensive? I noticed how Leonard said organic food was more expensive, but did not mention the government subsidies to conventional agriculture that make it's price abnormally low. Organic food doesn't have be more expensive, the problem is our food policy.

free range turkey should not be a niche product!

they want to sell seed spewcific sprays etc which enrich teh gmo makers

read about Joel Salatin and what he does with his farm

It's also how you use food - French people traditionally used everything - beef has bones to boil etc.

the farther food gets away from the consumer, the worse for everyone. Our local farmers (Amish etc) don't use petrochemicals or gmos and my food costs the same of less when i buy it from farmers i know, who do not pollute but clean the air - and i feel better all around - even reversed my bone loss

years ago [clinton admin] i read in the official gov't publication at the midtown library, Journal of Morbidity and Mortality, that farmers in this country have the highest rate per capita for a specific professional group besides truck drivers, for cancer rates.
Truck drivers were like smokers in lung cancer rates, but for farmers, might this now actually be linked to the use of petroleum being used to make pesticides for not only corn, but other food we eat as well? Directly or indirectly?

YAAAY thank you for putting this issue front and center. (I think the following should be required reading: any of Michael Pollan's books but esp. Omnivore's Dilemma AND Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A Price (copyright 1939!)

This issue alone is our best hope for breaking our addiction from fossil fuels to a friendlier fuel source.