Farm Bill 101: Tom Philpott plans to analyze the political economy of farming and suggest a socially and environmentally sustainable farm policy. (Someone has to do it, and we’re glad he’s volunteered.) The 2007 Farm Bill will affect everybody who cares about what they eat, and/or about the environment, so if you’re unsure how agricultural subsidies work and why/if we need them, this piece is a great place to start. Grist

Food prejudice: We promise this is the last link we’ll do for a while about the supposedly heretical, blame-the-foodies new book “The Gospel of Food.” This Q&A with author Barry Glassner reveals him to be instead quite a reasonable fellow, who believes we should “eat and let eat” instead of being reflexively moralistic about food. For example, he mentions one of his favorite studies, in which students were shown photographs of people their age and researchers told one set that the people in the photographs ate foods like whole wheat breads and chicken, and the other that the subjects ate hamburgers and French fries and hot fudge sundaes. The students ranked the same people very differently, with the latter group depicted as less likable and less attractive. Salon

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