I have asked my vegetarian and vegan friends why they have chosen to stop eating meat. More often than not, their answers have nothing to do with dietary issues. Instead, they talk about the horrors of factory farming, and their choice to boycott an industry that mistreats animals and is destructive to the environment. What […]
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environment
Avaaz.com – World to Dilma: Save the Amazon
Avaaz is less than 13,000 votes away from it’s goal of 1,000,000! Sign the petition here From Avaaz.com . . . The Amazon is in serious danger: Brazil is on the verge of gutting its forest protection laws — unless we act now, vast tracts of our planet’s lungs could be opened up to clear-cutting […]
what are carbon emissions
Nowadays you hear phrases like global warming, greenhouse gases and climate change being thrown around by scientists, environmentalists and politicians. These phrases are abstract sounding, can be difficult to fully grasp, and can be easy to ignore. But climate change is a real problem, even if the average person doesn’t totally understand what it means. […]
the BP oil spill, all but forgotten
In case you had forgotten, the largest oil spill in US history happened just over a year ago. After the explosion of a drilling rig, 5 million or so gallons of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico over a three month period, before the pipe could be capped. To mark the one year anniversary […]
cooking isn’t old-fashioned
Cooking is really important because it’s the only way we’re going to take back control of our diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. – Michael Pollan, author of Food Rules When I was a teenager I refused to learn how to cook because I did not want to grow up to become […]
fishing for food
The grocery store contains every ingredient I could possibly want to create any culinary masterpiece I can dream of. All I have to do is hop in my car, drive a few blocks and pick out what I need from inviting aisles that freeze, cool, heat, keep dry, or moisturize their well-stocked shelves. There’s even […]