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Eat for your health, the planet, and your values.

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Eat for your health, the planet, and your values.

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Is a Meat Tax a Good Idea?

  Two years ago, I wrote this post on why a sugar tax was a bad idea because it could lead to a meat tax. Yesterday, the internet was buzzing with news of a new study on PLOS, suggesting the health and environmental benefits of a meat tax. Surprise! The researchers modeled what the “benefits”

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Am I Less “Pure” Because I Eat Meat?

Update: The original title of this post used the work “woke” instead of “pure”. After learning more on the history and evolving usage of the word, I can see how a white woman using the word “woke” in this context is inappropriate and I have changed it. My usage of the word was meant in

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Local Meat Sales Plummet Under New Snap Incentives

Recently, my friend Kate Stillman (pictured above) pinged me about how her local meat sales have dropped by 75% at farmer’s markets this past summer. The cause? A new program intended to increase local fruit and vegetable consumption. This summer, the state of Massachusetts introduced a new benefit to those enrolled in SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition

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Meat Camp

Those of you that follow me on Instagram probably saw a few dreamy photos of my recent trip to Belcampo’s Meat Camp. As promised, I wanted to share some more images and info on my experience. Being from the East Coast, I was unfamiliar with Belcampo until Michelle Tam connected me to Anya Fernald, the

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Is a Meat Tax a Good Idea?

  Two years ago, I wrote this post on why a sugar tax was a bad idea because it could lead to a meat tax. Yesterday, the internet was buzzing with news of a new study on PLOS, suggesting the health and environmental benefits of a meat tax. Surprise! The researchers modeled what the “benefits”

Read More »

Am I Less “Pure” Because I Eat Meat?

Update: The original title of this post used the work “woke” instead of “pure”. After learning more on the history and evolving usage of the word, I can see how a white woman using the word “woke” in this context is inappropriate and I have changed it. My usage of the word was meant in

Read More »

Local Meat Sales Plummet Under New Snap Incentives

Recently, my friend Kate Stillman (pictured above) pinged me about how her local meat sales have dropped by 75% at farmer’s markets this past summer. The cause? A new program intended to increase local fruit and vegetable consumption. This summer, the state of Massachusetts introduced a new benefit to those enrolled in SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition

Read More »

Meat Camp

Those of you that follow me on Instagram probably saw a few dreamy photos of my recent trip to Belcampo’s Meat Camp. As promised, I wanted to share some more images and info on my experience. Being from the East Coast, I was unfamiliar with Belcampo until Michelle Tam connected me to Anya Fernald, the

Read More »

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