In his opinion piece for the New York Times, titled "The End of Meat is Here," Jonathan Safran Foer offers a simplistic solution to a complex issue. If we eliminated all animal products from the US diet, a study showed only a 2.6% reduction in GHG emissions, yet an increase in nutrient deficiencies. Overall calories and carbohydrate intake would also go up, hardly a healthy solution to a population where 70% are overweight or obese, yet ...Read More
Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs
I love creating, especially with natural objects. That's why, when I decided to write The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook, I wanted to include some fun projects for people to do, that don't involve baking trays of sugary junk food or using store bought kits. These naturally beautiful pastel eggs are so much lovelier than the sparkly neon eggs made from the kits that flood drugstores around Easter. There is an important lesson to be learned here: ...Read More
What My Family is Doing During the Coronavirus
I'm incredibly thankful to live on a farm at this time. I've never liked crowded spaces and am quite worried for those who live in large cities, who don't have much access to clean safe housing, food and air, and for the many people who are paycheck to paycheck and will be negatively impacted by job loss. We have an abundance of chores to keep ourselves busy, and food stores on hand to ensure we won't go hungry. Much of my social network is ...Read More
Child Slave Labor: The Darkside of Valentine’s Day
In the United States, Valentine's Day is synonymous with giant heart-shaped boxes packed with irresistible chocolate. But what if Americans were more aware that the chocolate they savor this holiday was a product of child slave labor? Recently, 137 children between the ages of six and 17 working in the cocoa industry were rescued in a series of raids in the African town of Aboisso. Twelve traffickers were arrested as part of the incident. ...Read More
Why Fake Burgers Make No Sense
The silicon valley tech scene loves to deny basic rules of nature: You can't make something out of nothing. Life requires death. Energy comes from the sun and is recycled here on Earth. Humans need to eat real food. [Tweet "Fake burgers are NOT REAL FOOD!"] With investments of over $250 millions of dollars, the fake-meat burger company Impossible Foods just ran into some hot water with the FDA. It turns out their bleeding burger hasn't been ...Read More
