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Just in time for Blog Action Day, I came across this interesting Globe and Mail article about diet and the environment.
Meat consumption’s negative effect on the planet has been big news especially since the release of the UN’s report Livestock’s Long Shadow in 2006. Animals raised for human consumption do more damage to the environment […]
Given all the hype this vegan diet book has been receiving, I decided to jump on the bandwagon and read Skinny Bitch myself. It’s a very quick read - I think it took me a couple hours tops to get through it, and I’m not a particularly fast reader. Readability always scores points with me.
The […]
I’ve been hearing a lot recently about a book called Skinny Bitch. That Posh Spice bought it (because she needs staying skinny advice?). That it is written by models. That it promotes a healthy vegan diet.
But the thing that I’ve read about the book that most made me want to actually read the book is […]
I’m enjoying my visit to the US, and especially enjoying the various foodstuffs that I get to eat here that I can’t find back at home in Switzerland. While a lot of these America-specific foods are fabulous, several others leave me scratching my head and saying “huh?”
For example, there is this product: Special K2O Protein […]
Yesterday I read a post on Almost Vegetarian about a new processed food from Oscar Mayer which promises you’ll be able to get the thing “From Fridge to Mouth in 60 Seconds.” The sandwich is full of unhealthy ingredients and non-nutritious additives, yet it’s being marketed using the word “healthy”.
Who still thinks that their diet […]
Today I came across an animal rights group’s protest while wandering around Vienna. They were focusing on the mistreatment of pigs in Austria, and the photographs they had on display were quite disturbing. The piggy in the above poster is saying “My flesh belongs to me! If you still want to eat […]
One of the dietary recommendations in Michael Pollan’s recent article Unhappy Meals is to “eat like an omnivore.” While he’s not convincing me to reintroduce meat into my diet, the idea of eating a variety of foods in order to better cover nutritional needs seems to make sense to me. I do take a daily […]
I found this Beginner’s Guide to Vegetarianism interesting because it offers some very different advice from what you find in most ‘going vegetarian’ guides. I’m not sure I agree with some of the suggestions, but hey, different things work for different people. There are so many different ways to eat vegetarian, so of course there […]
This NPR interview with Whole Foods’ CEO got me thinking. He makes some interesting points, especially about what food we can afford (or tell ourselves we can afford). He quoted statistics illustrating how little of their income Americans spend on groceries versus what people in other countries spend.
I really could afford to eat a lot […]
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