Lawns are a form of television
More than any USDA rule or regulation, this transparency is their best assurance that the meat they're buying has been humanely and cleanly processed. You can't regulate integrity, Joel is fond of say...
Much of gardening is a return, an effort at recovering remembered landscapes.
On this question, he holds with Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, who conceived of the human mind as a kind of radio receiver, able to tune in to frequencies of energy and information that exist...
One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
One of the things that commends travel, art, nature, work, and certain drugs to us is the way these experiences, at their best, block every mental path forward and back, immersing us in the flow of a...
Perhaps as the sway of tradition in our eating decisions weakens, habits we once took for granted are thrown up in the air, where they're more easily buffeted by a strong idea or a breeze of fashion.
Science has trouble with this interpretation, however, because, whatever the perception is, it can’t be verified by its customary tools. It’s an anecdotal report, in effect, and so has no value. Scien...
Since 1985 our [American's] consumption of all added sugars- cane, beet, HFCS, glucose, honey, maple syrup, whatever- has climbed from 128 pounds to 159 pounds per person.
So: Ask yourself not, Am I full ?but, Is my hunger gone?That moment will arrive several bites sooner.
The banquet is in the first bite.
The economic logic of gathering so many animals together to feed them cheap corn in CAFOs is hard to argue with; it has made meat, which used to be a special occasion in most American homes, so cheap...
The first event, which looked back but also forward like a kind of historical hinge, was the centennial of the birth of Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who, in 1943, accidentally found that he had d...
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the -ism suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing...
This was before the importance of set and setting was understood. I was brought to a basement room, given an injection, and left alone. A recipe for a bad trip, surely, but Richards had precisely the...
When one is screening raw footage of people in costume tripping on mushrooms and dancing sloppily to a reggae band, a little goes a long way,
When the ego dissolves, so does a bounded conception not only of our self but of our self-interest. What emerges in its place is invariably a broader, more openhearted and altruistic—that is, more spi...
Witches and sorcerers cultivated plants with the power to cast spells -- in our vocabulary, psychoactive plants. Their potion recipes called for such things as datura, opium poppies, belladona, hashis...
Wrangham estimates that cooking our food gives our species an extra four hours a day. (This happens to be roughly the same amount of time we now devote to watching television.)
You can't regulate integrity
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