Eating is an agricultural act, as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world – and what is to become of…
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Recently, the Internet has been ablaze with ardent debates on the role of agriculture and how our diets contribute to the global crises we face. Passionate supporters of vegan diets and lifestyles point to the loss of biodiversity that comes with cutting down rainforests to raise cattle for the meat demand of western consumers, while…
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It has long been suggested that to save the world from climate change, famine, and global destruction, that the world over must reduce its meat consumption and instead adopt a Vegan diet, favoring the use of cereal crops for calories and protein. Although anti-meat Veganism represents a better alternative to Industrial Animal Production Model regarding…
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N ow that the Paleo Diet has garnered attention from a worldwide audience due to recent data reports suggesting that the trend has surpassed and outperformed other familiar dietary regimens including veganism and vegetarianism, we can expect that it is going to be scrutinized more than it had been in previous years as its popularity…
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Fact: Horses aren’t native to the Americas, they were brought to the Americas from Spain. Everyone knows that… or at least they think they know that… While it is factual that domesticated horses were brought from Spain in the 1500s, and it’s also factual that there were no horses in the Americas at that point…
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Bees pollinate a third of everything we eat. That fact alone should be enough to warrant our attention. This includes important staples like most fruits and vegetables, coffee, tea, and cocoa beans. Even grass-fed and pastured meat production relies on bees and other pollinators, because bees and other insects pollinate the clover fields they graze on. And as…
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Interview with the Lunatic Farmer Joel Salatin Polyface Farmer Joel Salatin may be one of the most well-known farmers on this planet. The self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer” is famed for his counter-conventional animal husbandry wisdom, and is a prolific author who doles out scathing criticisms of Industrial factory farming methods and government…
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Diana Rodgers is the owner of Radiance Nutritional Therapy, a health coaching company on a mission to help clients rejuvenate their health through optimal nutrition and digestive support through offering cooking classes and health workshops. Diana also runs Clark Farm, an organic farm in Carlisle, Massachusetts with her husband, where they reside with their two…
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Paleo Movement Interview with Allan Savory Allan Savory suggests in his TED talk that the desertification of the world’s grasslands has been an immediate cause of poverty, social inequity, violence, losses in biodiversity, and ultimately a significant cause of climate change. While working in Africa to discover the cause of land degradation, Savory made a…
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