Michael Pollan is one of the nations leading writers and thinkers in this country on the issue of food. He is author of several books about food, including The Botany of Desire, The Omnivores Dilemma and his latest, In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto. In light of what he calls the processed food industrys [...]
The freedom of individuals to forge their own destinies, speak as they wish and move as they like is the foundation of any democratic society. In one simple but powerful word, liberty, we express the ethos which has been central to our system of government since times forgotten.
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore sits down with Democracy Now! ahead of the release of his new film sicko. The film is a seething indictment of the US health care system. It focuses not on the more than 40 million people who don’t have healthcare but on the 250 million who do – many of [...]