Food Inc The critically acclaimed director Robert Kenner is back again with a bang. The movie Food Inc is now playing in select theaters near you. The movie is a documentary about how multinationals have taken over the production of food. “Corn is the vegetable-as-villain,” in the movie and assumes dozens of ubiquitous identities like [...]
EPA Carbofuran Ban
Last Friday, the Washington Post reported a surprising ban — the Environmental Protection Agency had decided to no longer allow Carbofuran pesticides to be used in domestic agriculture or in food imported into the US (click on the title for a link to the article). Oddly enough, this issue has been getting very little press. [...]
The Brain Drain
Suppose you grow up in a poor part of town with bad schools, poor health care, and not many opportunities. But you are lucky enough to get a good education, go through medical school, and become a doctor. Once you survive the long hours of medical school and become a doctor, you are able to [...]
