Thanks to the wonderful posts by CD and the thoughtful contributors in the comments, we've been talking about food a lot the past couple of days. And to tie those posts in with CD's post about the need to take action, I thought I'd pass along these 10 things you can do to help start a citizen revolution aimed at taking back our food. The list comes from Sustainable Food, which I've added to the Blogroll and highly recommend.

is this.

Seriously, I am very excited to see the idea of a fruit/veggie dominant diet gaining traction in American culture. Yeah, I know, I know, it's the New York Times. But still...

[Lambert suggested I cross post something from our blog Green Roof Growers. An earlier version of this post can be found here. What follows is New and much Improved.]

Most (All?) of you who read this understand the ways that food and politics are connected. Energy Policy, global warming, peak oil, and subsidized agribusiness, to name a few. If you're trying to change things, it's hard to know where to begin.

Michael Pollan thinks that growing some of your own food is the place to start.

CD's ref to YouTube by the homeless blogger below is a faint alarm. Bloomberg's ringing a bigger bell:

California mega-farm practices led directly to the Eschericia coli 0157:H7 outbreak last month that sickened 200 people nationwide and killed three.