Water Contamination

Here's an article from comcast on pharmaceutical-contaminated US drinking water...

French fries

Search Engines

Here are some options to use that FAR surpass the usual google or wikipedia searches. Post in comments others you find!

http://scholar.google.com -- google without the porn and E.D. ads

http://grokker.com -- display search results in outline or graphic form (remember to uncheck wikipedia!)

http://www.kosmix.com -- pulls search items into a dossier of information

Employment & Immigration

Here's a great interactive NY Times story on immigration patterns.

Here's an interesting video from the NY Times about young versus old workers.

Meat, Chicken & Pork

Modern Meat's PBS site.

Here's an article from the SF Chronicle about a new way of producing chicken.

Go looking for the Mona Lisa from grease here!

Here's a NY Times article on changes in the global pork supply.

Big Box Stores

Here's a page of NY Times articles on Walmart.

PBS's Store Wars site

PBS links to "big box stores" search

Here's a site with lots of interesting things about Wal-Mart.

Pros and Cons of Wal-Mart, nicely collected for your use :)

Car culture

Here's a NY Times article on the joys of commuting.

Car culture in Saudi Arabia.

Food Safety

Here's a link to the Pew Charitable Trusts' database of articles. Good stuff. make sure you do a background search on Pew...

YouTube video on food additives.

MSG can be rather nasty.



NY Times page of links on food safety

Here's one from the NY Times on food inspections.

President Obama's new food safety priorities, from the NY Times.

Here's a NY Times article on curing peanut allergies.

A NY Times article on the inability to trace food production origins.

A NY Times article on DIY food safety.

An SF Chronicle article on the new FDA administrator.

Skeptics, Counter-Argument, Etc.

Here's a book that's skeptical of many of the things we've been discussing.

Here's a blog all about "green" living.

Wages and Workers

Here's one from the NY Times about what middle class earnings used to actually mean in terms of purchasing power.

Here's one from right in our own backyards.

Here's one for underappreciated lifestyle of the rich, I guess :)

Globalization

Here's a NY Times article on what's actually behind that brand logo. What do you think--worth the price??

NY Times search links on globalization.

CNN article on imported drywall, of all things.

NY Times article on the impact of NAFTA fifteen years later.

Here's a NY Times article on using software to monitor outsources "independent contractors."

Here's a video about Las Vegas: "Lost Vegas"

Food-Borne Illnesses

Here's one on illness in Napa from its local paper, The NV Register. And here's another on the same outbreak from the SF Chronicle. Yum, yum good?

Here's a page of NY Times articles on food-borne illnesses.

A brief CNN article on the death of a researcher of "Mad Cow" disease.

Here's an article from the SF Chronicle about food allergies, specifically the issue of gluten-free diets.

The LA Drive-In Scene

Here's from your friends and mine at hulu.com: Burgertown.

McDonalds articles

Here's one from the NY Times about their chain of Chipotle restaurants. Irony, anyone?

Get 'em while they're young, right?

Here's a page of NY Times articles on McDonald's.

Organic or Not?

Here's an article from the NY Times about whether the label "organic" is meaningful.

NY Times page on organic issues.

SF Gate article on Niman Ranch

Here's an interesting article from 2/22/09 on what's happened to Niman Ranch. What do you think? Whose side of the discussion to you agree with more?