{"id":8294,"date":"2009-06-05T10:27:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T17:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2009-06-05T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T17:27:39","slug":"kpfk-fund-drive-day-4-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/06\/05\/kpfk-fund-drive-day-4-8\/","title":{"rendered":"KPFK Fund Drive &#8211; Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-060509\/2009_06_05_uprising.MP3\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_UBhE-MlfUus\/SQvvYCFsq_I\/AAAAAAAACZE\/cJgwChiFh94\/s400\/Food+Fight.JPG\" alt=\"food fight\" \/><strong>Food Fight: The Revolution Never Tasted So Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The on-going global food crisis and the obesity epidemic in countries like the US are perversely linked: they are both symptoms of an industrial food system that causes scarcity in poor nations, and a glut of unhealthy foods in wealthy nations. This hypothesis has increasingly been offered by analysts and writers like Raj Patel author of &#8220;Stuffed and Starved,&#8221; and Michael Pollan, the best selling author of &#8220;In Defense of Food: An Eater\u2019s Manifesto.&#8221; The history of how our food got to be dominated by higly processed so-called &#8220;convenience foods&#8221; filled with high-fructose corn syrup and soy-based oil goes all the way back to World War II, as illustrated in a new documentary: Food Fight: Revolution Never Tasted So Good. The film, by Chris Taylor and Alan Siegel follows what they call a revolution of fresh, organic, local, and most of all, great-tasting food, as embodied by growing numbers of farmers markets. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you Gifts: <\/p>\n<p>Food Fight DVD &#8211; $120<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food Fight: The Revolution Never Tasted So Good The on-going global food crisis and the obesity epidemic in countries like the US are perversely linked: they are both symptoms of an industrial food system that causes scarcity in poor nations, and a glut of unhealthy foods in wealthy nations. This hypothesis has increasingly been offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}