Diet & Lifestyle

Feeding People is Easy Part 1

Book review In Feeding People is Easy, published in 2007, Colin Tudge points out that: “Food is the most pressing issue and the thing we absolutely have to get right. Get agriculture wrong, and everything else is compromised.” “The world population now stands at 6.4 billion (6400 million), of whom roughly 1 million are chronically …

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Eating Animals Part 4

EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS                       2009 PART IV   Chapter 4: Hiding/Seeking In the typical cage for egg-laying hens, each bird has 67 square inches of space – the size of this page. Nearly all cage-free birds have approximately the same amount of space. I’m not the kind of person who finds …

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Globalization, Diet and Lifestyle

GLOBABALIZATION, DIET AND LIFESTYLE   University visit In early March six university students and their instructor spent a week with us in Lakkia. The schedule prepared for them, the places visited, and the guest visitors we had in the evenings will be described in a later document. On their arrival, David gave this talk to …

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Eating Animals Part 3

EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS                       2009 PART III   Chapter 3: Words/Meaning Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change. ANIMAL Before visiting any farms, I spent more than a year wading through literature …

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Eating Animals Part 1

EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS                       2009 PART I   Chapter 1: Storytelling   Americans choose to eat less than 0.25% of the known edible food on the planet. The fruits of family trees My grandmother survived the War barefoot, scavenging other people’s inedibles: rotting potatoes, discarded scraps of meat, skins, and the …

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The Five Lessons of Life Part 1

THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER                 2000 PART 1   Preface This book records the teachings of Sangratan, a healer/counselor who travels the passes of the Himalayas near the Indo-Tibet border. It sets out the Five Lessons of Life familiar to the mountain people who live there, lessons which have helped them to …

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