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[B12 Partners Solipsism] TomDispatch - Tomgram: Following the Food Chain with Michael Pollan: Look at an issue I know something about, genetic engineering. Why was its introduction into our food supply not a contested fight in America?

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[B12partners.net] B12 Partners Solipsism: Genetic Engineering: As follow up on Michael Pollan's hunting experience excerpt, here is a sampling of an interview of Mr. Pollan, conducted about a year ago, including this astute observation about how the DLC and the Clinton Democrats sold out the country's health in the name of profits and/or lobbyist dollars:

http://verbena-19.blogspot.com  verbena-19: While attending journalism school, Heeter has also been a researcher for Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire, who appeared in an interview at Tomdispatch a year ago. (By the way, Pollan's new book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, debuts in a couple of weeks and, given how much I liked his last one, I plan to be at the head of the line when it hits my local bookstore.) Now, get your spoon ready -- or should it be your dipstick? (via Cosmos)

TomDispatch: Part of every spring, I venture out to the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley and get myself attached, as an editor, to a group of young journalists. In the course of a semester, they learn something about writing -- and rewriting -- from me, while I learn much that's surprising about our world (and technology I'll never be able to handle) from them. (via Cosmos)

http://dialogic.blogspot.com  Dialogic: Her life has definitely veered off the beaten path as she has grown her business into one of the “Top 500 Woman-Owned Businesses in the U.S.” according to Working Woman magazine. Janey is the recipient of various business awards including the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Woman Business Owner of the Year Award, National NAWBO Trailblazer Award and U.S. Chamber of Commerce “Blue Chip Enterprise Award.” In addition, Janey is the current Legislative Director for Kentucky Staffing Association (KSA) and is the current Chair of the Professional Women’s Forum Dreambuilder’s Committee. (via Cosmos)

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