All posts tagged "Eric Schlosser"

According to Eric Schlosser in his follow-up to Fast Food Nation, Command and Control, days after the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961, the American military came with in a "hair's breadth" of detonating a nuclear explosion over North Carolina.

[rebelmouse-image 24749849 original_size="640x480" expand=1]A number of people have asked me to blog about the food safety bill that passed through the Senate and is fixing to pass through the House, if they can hammer out some procedural issues. KJ at XX put some useful links together, if you want to read up on it. Grist has been blogging the hell out of it, and Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser endorsed it in a NY Times op-ed. The reason that a lot of people are skeptical of this bill is that it's widely supported by Big Agra, which doesn't bode well. The fact that it passed with wide margins in the Senate also makes me nervous---if it didn't meet widespread Republican opposition, that's a good sign that it's toothless.