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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.” …
IN PRAISE OF SLOW HOW A WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT IS CHALLENGING THE CULT OF SPEED CARL HONORE ORION 2004 There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi Introduction: The Age of Rage People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic that you would …
