In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
…are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable, c) more than five in number, or that include d) high-fructose corn syrup.” – Eat mostly plants. Think of meat as a side dish or…
Search Results: the problem is we eat in the car, in front of the Tv and increasingly alone
Sustainable Eating & Nutrition
…transitioning to scratch-cooking with fresh ingredients, including USDA-compliant recipes Eat Well directory of sustainably-raised meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs. Eat Wild lists local suppliers for grass-fed meat and dairy products….
Documentary Films
…viewers simple, practical advice throughout the program about how to eat healthier, such as “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food,” “Eat only foods that will eventually rot”…
Why Bother?
…Shanghai or Chongqing who has just bought his first car (Chinese car ownership is where ours was back in 1918), is eager to swallow every bite of meat I forswear…
Voting With Your Fork
…so well-fed and so unhealthy. This is unprecedented. For most of history, the “food problem” has been a problem of quantity. Our shocking rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, foodborne…
Big Food Strikes Back: Why did the Obamas fail to take on corporate agriculture?
…turn supplies the feed grain for Big Meat — all the animals funneled into the tiny number of companies that ultimately process most of the meat we eat — and…
Farmer in Chief
…elegant solution — animals replenishing the fertility that crops deplete — and neatly divide it into two problems: a fertility problem on the farm and a pollution problem on the…
Wendell Berry’s Wisdom
…1971, Lappé published Diet for a Small Planet, which linked modern meat production (and in particular the feeding of grain to cattle) to the problems of world hunger and the…
Food for thought: What we eat can be not only nourishing, but edifying as well
…parts that blend in a satisfying, filling, nourishing and enjoyable whole. “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Pollan says, is the problem faced by any modern eater who contemplates the seemingly inexhaustible range…
Anatomy of a Meal
…eat — and, by extension, what we should eat. That last phrase risks making the book sound like a diet plan; but whereas the typical diet book begins with the…