Alone among the animals, we humans insist that our food be not only good to eat—tasty, safe, and nutritious—but also, in the words of Claude Lévi-Strauss, good to think, for among all the many other t...
All these activities are forms of adult play that also serve as ceremonial acts of remembering—who we are, where we came from, how nature works.
People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.
Wherever the apple tree goes, its offspring propose so many different variations on what it means to be an apple -- at least five per apple, several thousand per tree -- that a couple of these novelti...
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.
Nothing in my experience led me to believe this novel form of consciousness originated outside me; it seems just as plausible, and surely more parsimonious, to assume it was a product of my brain, jus...
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.
Also, by demonizing one nutrient -fat- we inevitably give a free pass to anther , supposedly good, nutrient -carbohydrates in this case - and then proceed to eat much of that instead.
Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science th...
Sir Albert)Howard put it this way:Artificial manures (synthetic fertilizers)lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.
Is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have become, is not just meat but number 2 cor...
Compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure. Over the winter a cover crop of legumes is planted to build up nitro...