I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The obesity epidemic cannot be ignored by government or the private sector. Since doing nothing is not an option, what do we do? I’d start with education. When people are taught how to read food labels, buy lower cost, healthy food, and cook, they make lasting changes.
Although the executive director of the Nebraska Pork Producers says former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack is “a middle-of-the-road pick,” food activists are wary of Obama’s Agriculture Secretary pick because of his support for big agribusiness, genetically modified crops and ethanol subsidies. For some perspective on the future of the Department of Agriculture in an Obama administration and what some New Mexicans are looking for in Vilsack, NMI contacted called Santa Fean Mark Winne, the author of Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty.
Family dinner in Pie Town, N.M., 1940.
Higher food costs are leading Americans to cook more at home, eat out less, plant vegetable gardens and eat less beef, according to a recent poll by Parade magazine.
On Sunday morning be sure to dig through the mountain of crap in the middle of the paper to excavate Parade, because it has an interesting cover story called “What America Really Eats.” Who knew a recession would be just what we needed to start eating better? More …
