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 [...]
I was in Safeway last Sunday, buying rhubarb. The stems were meaty and a little bit limp, and they were the colour of flesh. One stalk had five little shoots emerging from its end, which had been snipped off, so that it they looked like five fingers on a tiny hand. A tiny hand [...]
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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