This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments.
• Barry Estabrook’s Politics of the Plate blog: Smart, thoughtful, and often witty takes on a range of food matters, but with an emphasis on labor issues and farmworker rights.
• Marion Nestle’s Food Politics blog: Sharp insta-punditry from the person who knows food politics and policy better than anyone.
• Tom Philpott’s Food for Thought blog at Mother Jones: This former Grist blogger delivers thoughtful advocacy and analysis bolstered by actual reporting.
• Food Safety News: Comprehensive coverage of a subject that is easily and often overhyped.
• Civil Eats: Group blog with an activist lens on the world of sustainable agriculture.
You are wrong about Nestle. Never elected to any political office, including dogcatcher, to paraphrase Speaker Sam Rayburn. An ivory tower pontificator who has a POV but its the same old shit that is peddled by CSPI, EWQ and the Ludditie food reform movement.
Run for something, get elected and see how hard it is to make change. Writing a piece that blows smoke up your friends' asses is too easy.
#1 Posted by Jeff Nedelman, CJR on Tue 4 Sep 2012 at 11:28 AM