I used to work with an evangelical vegan. He was radically concerned about farm animals. But he couldn’t see past the end of a chicken run in terms of the implications of anything he said.
His first line of argument I called “The Frances Moore Lappe”: we should plough up the pasture land in order to [...]
Next to HIV/Aids, Cancer is probably the most talked about illness of our time. We are constantly being given knew information telling us that what we do in our daily lives causes cancer, from frying food in butter to drinking out of plastic bottles.All types of organizations organize benefits for cancer research and the money [...]
Michael Pollan’s new book is called IN DEFENSE OF FOOD. In it, he disparages something he calls “The Western Diet”. This “Western Diet” is made up, not of food, but of “foodlike substances” sold in supermarkets. Michael wants to get us back to eating real food.
Hello Michael? Hello? What is this “Western” nonsense?
Has Europe been [...]
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