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Pages tagged "opinion"


Your cooperation required: Food Choices

Posted on Our Blog by Alison Shuman · April 13, 2016 7:58 AM

Is our tendency to "dietary shrinkage" trying to tell us something?

By Leslie A. Cook, vegetatingwithleslie.org

Do you believe that intuition is a valuable tool for anticipating events? I do! And I think that sometimes intuition works beyond our personal lives. Before you start to think that I'm getting into fortune-telling or something, let me explain.

Have you ever anticipated a trend? I have, and I suspect a lot of you have as well! So maybe there were "hints" in the environment or in the culture, and we didn't even realize we were picking up information that fed our intuition.

What if intuition turns out to be an early warning system of sorts? Let's look at the example of our changing food culture...

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Plant-based diets to save the environment and ourselves

Posted on Our Blog by Alison Shuman · January 18, 2016 8:45 AM

Who Is Howard Lyman? Cattle Rancher Gone Plant-based

By Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D. 

In case you don’t know, I won’t keep you in suspense a moment longer. Howard Lyman is a former Montana cattle rancher, now approaching elderliness. He grew up on his family’s ranch, a sizable operation which he eventually took over and made larger. A spinal tumor that came close to paralyzing him resulted in his beginning to question his way of eating, a super-sized version of the high-fat Standard American Diet.

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You Can Make a Difference

Posted on Our Blog by Alison Shuman · January 05, 2016 3:43 PM

Your biggest contribution to sustaining the environment: your plant-based diet

By Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D.

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Plants: Lessons in Humility

Posted on Our Blog by Alison Shuman · January 04, 2016 8:00 AM

Our Brain: All It's Cracked Up to Be?

By Leslie A. Cook, vegetatingwithleslie.org

A brain is an interesting thing. I was just thinking about brains the other day. My thought process began this way:

I took a walk with my husband. Along the way, we saw a dead rabbit in an area where we had seen a feral cat the evening before. His reaction reminded me of times we had watched nature movies together. If one animal hunted another to kill it, he turned off the TV. Of course, I don’t like to see animals killed or hurt, but I wondered about his reaction. I said, “It’s natural. It’s just the way life works. It’s designed that way.” He said, “It’s a stupid design.”

That generated something of a paradigm shift for me. It’s the way nature works: it’s always been that way. I never questioned it. Whether or not there is divine intention behind it, sustaining life requires taking life, at least in this universe, even if it’s “just a plant.”

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Illinois Corn Harvest

Posted on Our Blog by Alison Shuman · December 21, 2015 8:00 AM
Getting back to "real farming"
By Scott Brix, via Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D.
Last July we visited our son Scott and his wife Kim. They live on five acres in northern Illinois.
After moving there many years ago, they learned about tall grass prairies. Soon after, the preponderance of their five acres became a riotous olio of tall grasses and wildflowers, dozens of species of them, corniced on two sides by timber.  
In a converted barn, Kim teaches a growing stream of students the art of fusion glass. Scott, seeking every opportunity to escape the tether of his day job, picks a banjo, hangs out at Bluegrass camps, and hosts a Bluegrass music show each week on community radio.  
A couple of weeks or so ago I, and I’d guess lots of other people he knows, received this email. Here’s what he had to say:
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If Animals Could Talk

Posted on Our Blog by Alison Shuman · December 06, 2015 3:52 AM
Or if we had to talk our way out of being eaten, what would we say?
By Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D.
“If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish [and all animals we find tasty], what would be our argument against being eaten?”
 
These thought provoking words sprang from the prodigiously creative mind of Jonathan Safran Foer. Among other things, he wrote Eating Animals. I read the book a few years ago and don’t remember these words from the book but ran across them somewhere a bit later. It was only recently, though, that I thought of Foer’s question again and wondered: what would my argument be?  
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ZMI Science: 400M Fewer Animals Killed for Food in U.S. in 2014

Posted on Our Blog by Alison Shuman · November 16, 2015 8:45 AM

Everett Dirksen Again

By Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D.
“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.”
 
That’s what Senator Everett Dirksen, now long gone, once said in his characteristic trenchant style about government spending.
 
John Robbins’ website, The Food Revolution, recently reprinted an article from ZMI Science by Mihai Andrei. The piece bore the news from 2014 that 400 million fewer animals were killed for people to eat that year in the United States.
 
So, thinks me: 400 million here, 400 million there, and pretty soon you’re talking about lots of critters. 
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Lentils, Longevity & Sustainability

Posted on Our Blog by Alison Shuman · November 09, 2015 8:45 AM
Moderation In All Things (Really?)
By Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D.                  
 
Heard it from my Dad many times over many years, ‘cept he didn’t add the “really.” Much later, I heard it from a physician when I mentioned that I was eating an exclusively plant-based diet. And just a week or so ago from an old friend responding to the last issue of this ever growing collection of unsolicited exhortation and dubious entertainment. He was describing his generally quite healthful sounding diet, but invoked the 2000 year old aphorism (or is it an adage?) to explain his rationale for eating perhaps four or five steaks -- not at one sitting of course, but spaced over a year. Moderation in all things.
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I choose life -- and Okra Jambalaya -- over a steak

Posted on Our Blog by Alison Shuman · October 27, 2015 4:36 PM

Eat Less Meat (dem's fightin' words)

By Don's Early Light, Donald J. Brix, Ph.D.

John Robbins’ website, The Food Revolution, recently passed along a list of six claims the (red) meat industry is promulgating, trying to stem Americans’ diminishing consumption of its product. Robbins, probably justifiably, calls the six statements “lies.” Here’s the list with a few observations.

 

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Let's Bring Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution to Our Local Grocery Stores

Posted on Our Blog by Alison Shuman · August 28, 2015 7:45 AM

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day 2015: An Addendum

By Leslie A. Cook, vegetatingwithleslie.org

Do Food Products' Labels Tell Us Anything?

Have you ever noticed that there’s lots of “nutritional” information on all the items in the center part of your local grocery store and NONE on the real foods around the periphery of the store? Of course, this information is required on the commercially created food products in the center of the store, and I imagine we assume it’s not needed for the real food. I mean, a carrot is a carrot, right?

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