Nation Topics - Michael Pollan | The Nation

Thanks to the antidemocratic "supercommittee," the legislation singularly responsible for shaping our food system is being written behind closed doors.

A person can only eat so much, but the craving for money is boundless—the purse, not the belly, is the void that is never filled.

Despite the defeat of Proposition 19, growers in California are expanding a profitable system for cultivating pot.

Could the introduction of genetically modified genes into Mexico's landrace corns lead to their extinction?

How will the good-food revolution move beyond its evangelical phase?

People are beginning to understand the connection between our stomachs and our common destiny.

Writer and activist Raj Patel explains why shopping better won't solve the food crisis.

The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?

America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.

How do we fix our dysfunctional relationship with food? Alice Waters
leads a forum with Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Peter Singer and
others, who suggest, for starters, that we stop buying factory farm
products, get involved in farm policy and outlaw the marketing of junk
food to kids.