Dean of Harvard’s School of Public Health Speaks

I don’t know how I missed this link yesterday in the NY Times.  It’s by Julio Frenk, Mexico’s Minister of Health from 2000-2006 and now Dean of the School of…

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Farmer’s Wives and the Women’s Institute, England 1950s

I originally published this in Word of Mouth in 1995.  It was a short-lived newsletter (remember those) written by Johan Mathieson who was one of the sharpest commentators on food…

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Swine Flu, Small Farms, and the Women’s Institute

Here we go again.  The situation seems to have been dragging on for weeks, so it’s hard to remember that a week ago swine flu had barely been heard of. …

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