Posted in Environment, Food, The Stuff of Life, vegan, tagged Food, vegetables, community supported agriculture, organic, fruit, CSA, farmer's market, local harvest, songbirds, pesticide, herbicide on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s almost CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) season! I just re-subscribed to the CSA I joined last year and am looking forward to the local, organic food that will be delivered weekly for distribution to my nearby synogogue. It’s important to eat local and organic food for a variety of reasons including reduced carbon [...]
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Posted in Environment, vegan on August 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change
By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
Published: August 29, 2007
EVER since “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore has been the darling of environmentalists, but that movie hardly endeared him to the animal rights folks. According to them, the most inconvenient truth of all is that raising animals for meat contributes more [...]
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Posted in Environment, vegan on June 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If you’re still looking for books to round out your summer reading list and you like reading about food, the New York Times has a condensed review of a bunch of food books (many focused on ethical eating choices and the carbon footprint of your dininer) - Eating the Environment: A Literary Kitchen Cornucopia. [...]
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