RT @michaelpollan: Occupy Our Food Supply: strong piece from Christopher Cook http://t.co/lGeogemg

RT @DougHenwood @BloombergNews: Rich people are more likely to lie, steal and cheat | http://t.co/pWKnZn8j

#F27 #OccupyOurFoodSupply global day of action is here! 60+ Occupy groups 30+ orgs 1000’s of #food activists http://t.co/DHAndDii

RT @dominique_e_ R.I.P.Jean Ristil Persecuted Haitian Photojournalist Speaks Out: Jean Ristil & Cité Soleil http://t.co/l7M34RMm #Haiti

And here’s *how* to #OccupyFoodSupply on #F27 http://t.co/TUdUnhEA @ran #OWS

RT @NaomiStarkman: New @Civil Eats: Why We Must #Occupy Our Food Supply http://t.co/WT0fb2cr by @annalappe and @willienelson

Save the Greeks from their Saviours http://t.co/pqsoWse4

Via Daniel Bowman Simon, the food movement’s archival Indiana Jones, comes this nugget from the excellent Joan Gussow. Writing in 1974 she asked a question that, if the Twitterverse’s response to last week’s article and yesterday’s Q interview is anything to go by, still matters to many: Is it Fair to Sell Sugar to Children? It’s a terrific, prescient indictment of the food system.

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La Vía Campesina Call to action

Reclaiming our future: Rio +20 and Beyond

On 20-22 June 2012, governments from around the world will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to commemorate 20 years of the “Earth Summit”, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that first established a global agenda for “sustainable development”. During the 1992 summit, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the Convention to Combat Desertification, were all adopted. The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was also established to ensure effective follow-up of the UNCED “Earth Summit.”

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Since when is compassion illegal? End criminalization of Food Not Bombs. http://t.co/mAc0tojV