(A shorter version of this piece appeared on Marketplace today)

Bigger isn’t always better. By 2030, half of Americans won’t just be overweight, but obese. By then, nearly a fifth of our healthcare dollars will be spent treating the diseases that come with being bigger. Our lifestyles, rich in fat, sugar and inactivity, are creating a debt that’ll become the planet’s most expensive public health issue.

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Pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will in the Nation Food Issue – http://t.co/sW1OJKz1

Yet more reasons to #OccupyWallStreet today- Wall St drives global hunger http://t.co/bbHuC58d

Head still spinning from Detroit’s incredible activism – thank u Black Community Food Security Network and Malik Yakini http://t.co/7ZDLkZ5

Protests against genetically modified crops in India are getting increasingly creative. Earlier this week, the world’s largest quantity of aubergine curry was cooked by New Delhi’s top chefs yesterday to accompany a 100,000 signature petition protesting the Indian government’s support of GM crops. But the clipping below, from the Times of India, isn’t just an interesting report – it’s an anthropological trove. FYI, the Limca in the “Limca Book of Records” refers to an Indian brand of lemonade. [H/T:JH]

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#Wikileaks US govt officials pimping out GMOs. Who’d have thought? http://t.co/pUgLptp

How did I miss Bernie Sanders’ GAO audit, and news of $!5 trillion secret loans? “Socialism for the rich” aye. http://t.co/GxD7Ygc

Odd title for a post. Odd thing for Robert Reich to be doing. But very well done.

Great piece @MochaManual:”closed-door deals between the pharmaceutical industry and hospitals” prevent breastfeeding.
http://t.co/ptGfkDM

You don’t have to be from the Global North to be in the colonialism business . Here’s a swiftly and poorly cleaned up google translation of a report published on 23rd August 2011 in the Mozambican newspaper, O Pais (original here).

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