MOTHER JONES FOOD FOR THOUGHT; Waiter, There's a Climate Surcharge in My Soup, Sonny Perdue claims Obama-era reforms are causing food waste, A Green New Deal for farmers, They were promised broadband and high-tech jobs, China announces a ban on plastic straws and utensils, Why milk? 26JAN20

January 26, 2020 Waiter, There's a Climate Surcharge in My Soup Starting in January, at a smattering of eateries, California customers will see a new optional fee tacked on to their bill: One percent more to make their meal climate friendly. Will diners bite? (Mother Jones) Sonny Perdue claims Obama-era reforms are causing food waste. His own agency’s research tells a different story. (Mother Jones) A Green New Deal for farmers. A new plan would restructure everything about how they make money. (Mother Jones) They were promised broadband and high-tech jobs. They're still waiting. (ProPublica) China announces a ban on plastic straws and utensils. If the country's 1.4 billion people ordered takeout half as often we do, they’d make about 4 billion orders per year. That's a lot of plastic. (Mother Jones) Why milk? The history of why senators can only sip dairy or water on the floor during the impeachment trial. (The Week) NEW FROM BITE PODCAST Bite’s special 100th episode is all about young farmers. You’ll hear from all kinds of folks—from a fourth generation Japanese American fruit grower in California to a “party farmer” in Brooklyn—about what’s keeping them up at night, and what’s giving them hope. Plus, Leah Penniman, farmer and author of the book Farming While Black, weighs in on how young farmers are fighting the legacy of racism in American agriculture, and Bite listeners chime in with stories of the farmers in their lives. Hear it on Bite: "Who Are the Millennial Farmers?" Food for Thought comes to you from Mother Jones, an award-winning, investigative journalism outlet that was founded as a nonprofit magazine in 1976.