Mother Jones on Organic Farming

Over the past few years, I’ve become a lot more conscious of what I eat. It may have started when Brooke and I took up running a few years ago. Or maybe it was after reading Fast Food Nation, or seeing Super Size Me and Mondovino and Jamie’s School Dinners. Or maybe it’s because I work in the “food industry” now (sure, wine is a food!), and I see the different ways producers approach their work. Nevertheless, I try to pay more attention now, and when I can, I choose local and organic over the alternatives. I’ve been intrigued by the Slow Food movement for some time now as well.

All that as prelude to this: here’s a really good article in the latest issue of Mother Jones magazine, about an organic farmer in Virginia who refused to FedEx the writer one of his chickens. The article is actually an excerpt from author Michael Pollan’s new book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which looks fascinating.