NYU’s Institute of Public Knowledge is hosting the launch of Practicing Food Studies, edited by Amy Bentley, Fabio Parasecoli, and Krishnendu Ray. I wrote the Foreword. We will all provide brief perspectives on our quarter century of teaching food studies. For information and registration, click here. For 30% off on the book, click here.
by Marion Nestle
Feb
26
2018
U.S. Agriculture at a glance: USDA report
USDA and the National Agricultural Statistics Service have just published “Farms and Land in Farms: 2017 Summary.”
Here’s the bottom line:
Earl Butz, USDA Secretary under presidents Nixon and Ford, was infamous for, among other things, telling farmers to “get big or get out.” And so it came to pass….
Government agricultural policies have a lot to do with this, no?