Ok, last one here before returning this rather beloved book back to the library so others can have a shot at enjoying it, too ( Read more... )

This book is SO overdue... just two more things I wanted to note before turning it in. So this is the second-to-last in the transcription series and the last one is a couple of short humorous bits -- nothing particularly heavy at all.

This one is a bit of a continuation from the last one I posted about regarding food ethics.

I respect every diner ( Read more... )

The section really made me all thinky about animals, the eating thereof, and the ethics surrounding eating, well, anything, really.

Killing is a culturally loaded term, for most of us inextricably tied up with some version of a command that begins, "Thou shalt not." Every faith has it. And for all but perhaps the Jainists of India, that command is ( Read more... )

Buying your goods from local businesses rather than national chains generates about three times as much money for your local economy. Studies from all over the country agree on that, even while consumers keep buying at chain stores, and fretting that the downtown blocks of cute mom-and-pop venues are turning into a ghost town. Today's bargain ( Read more... )

Cattle and chickens were brought in off the pasture into intensely crowded and mechanized CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) where corn -- which is no part of a cow's natural diet, by the way -- could be turned cheaply and quickly into animal flesh. All these different products, in turn, rolled on down the new industrial food pipeline ( Read more... )

This book needs to go back to the library today -- can't renew it because other people have put holds on it. Glad I finished the book. It's amazing and I can't recommend it enough!

There are so many little excerpts from the book that I want to keep, so I thought I'd post them here, where I can share them with you.

Knowing how foods grow is to ( Read more... )