The 100-Mile Diet
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Food, Consumerism, Good For You | Leave a Comment
The 100-mile diet, based on a US and Canadian book, is the story of truly eating locally for one year. According to 100milediet.org, “when the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles—call it ‘the SUV diet.’” The creators figure that a “100-mile radius is large enough […]
Read More..>>Vegetarian Starter Kit
Posted on February 19, 2008 - Filed Under Health, Food, Good For You | 1 Comment
In light of the newest footage showing a downed cow being abused so it could be slaughtered and put in the American meat supply, many articles and chats I have read indicated many individuals are rethinking vegetarianism. I personally still eat meat occasionally, but am always working toward making more healthy, vegetarian alternatives. One of […]
Read More..>>The Meat Machine Dissected
Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Mother Nature, Food, Consumerism | 1 Comment
In my quest to only consume meat as the occasional palate treat, I found Mark Bittman’s article in today’s New York Times, Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler, an excellent “state of the union” on where meat production stands in the United States and abroad.
In an oil-to-meat comparison, Bittman explains that the environment is taking a huge hit […]
The Starbucks Reverse Jinx
Posted on December 28, 2007 - Filed Under Food, Consumerism, Finance | Leave a Comment
This delightful coinage taken from an article on Slate describes how the looming coffee monster we call Starbucks is actually helping improve coffee sales for local shops. There is this assumption that our communities were overflowing with locally run coffee shops until the dreaded Starbucks moved in plucking their customers one by one away from […]
Read More..>>Organic Food Just Tastes Better
Posted on December 4, 2007 - Filed Under Health, Mother Nature, Food, Good For You | 2 Comments
Eating organic food can have nutritional benefits far superior than food made through factory farming, which treats food as a commodity and animals as “tools of production.” Buying organic food not only ensures that animals are treated more humanely, but it also limits the amount of pesticides consumed. Many studies have determined that organic […]
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