Book review In Part 2 of Feeding People is Easy, Colin Tudge points out that: “The task before us is to provide good food for everyone, forever; at the same time to create agreeable ways of life for farmers, and for everyone else involved in the food chain – and for all humanity; to do …
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 …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART V Chapter 4: Hiding/Seeking (Cont.) 3. I am a factory farmer When people ask me what I do, I tell them I’m a retired farmer. I started milking cows when I was six. We lived in Wisconsin. My daddy had a small herd – fifty, …
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 …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART I THE INSTITUTION MADE THE MAN AND THE MAN RE-MADE THE INSTITUTION Introduction Two years ago, on February 2, 2009, Bruce Lansdale, Director of the American Farm School from 1955 to 1990, died. We honoured him on Psycho Sabbato – the day when Greece remembers those who …
THE CHAOS POINT THE WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS ERVIN LASZLO PIATKUS BOOKS 2006 PART III PART ONE: THE TIDES OF TRANSFORMATION Chapter 3: The Drivers of Chaos The choice we presently face is between devolution toward crisis and breakdown, and evolution toward a new world. We will enter one or the other …
Book review Below you will find Part 2 of the review of Why You Don’t Need Meat by Peter Cox. These are some snippets: “The 1981 report by Richard Doll and Richard Peto found that diet was responsible for 35% of all cancer deaths, but the food industry doesn’t necessarily want us to change.” …
Book review Leo Hickman in A Good Life: The Guide to Ethical Living points out that: “Ethical living means taking personal responsibility; considering ‘sustainability’ of everything you do; making sure that your actions do not have a negative influence on you or the wider world; reducing one’s demand for resources; consuming a fairer and …
Book review Joana Blythman, Britain’s leading investigative food journalist tells us in The Food We Eat: The Book You Cannot Afford to Ignore that “There are 3,000 or so genetically altered or ‘transgenic’ foods that have to date been tested worldwide. Unlike traditional breeding, genetic engineering permits scientists to move genetic material – DNA – …
Joana Blythman is Britain’s leading investigative food journalist who won the Caroline Walker Media Award for ‘Improving the nation’s health by means of Good Food’. In The Food We Eat: The Book You Cannot Afford to Ignore she makes the following points: “By dint of our collective buying clout, we can be tremendously influential in …
