Last night, at the advanced screening of Food, Inc., the audience broke into cheers and boos to punctuate the filmmakers’ more salient points about what has gone wrong with our food system. Sure, the documentary was preaching to the converted; it was a Viva los Farmers Markets! crowd at the E Street Cinema. But some revelations [...]

The wife and I share a personal joke about our beagle mix, Coltrane (beagle crossed with pig, we say, but that's not the joke). We've created this whole belief system for Coltrane (also known as Meatsack) based on one incident: While we were walking our sweet hound one day, a stray bag floated by on [...]