AlterNet’s New Food Section
If you prefer your coverage of the food industry with a healthy dash of progressive politics (and let’s face it, many of you do), check out the newly redesigned AlterNet . The lefty, reader-supported news site has a new section on food . The site has long covered food issues, but now there are more of them, and they’re all collected in one place. Many of them are excellent, such as Habiba Alcindor’s examination how poor people are increasingly buying their often-unhealthy food…
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