Dignity is a sort of agreement between people. A decision to grant that a person, or body of people, deserve […]
food, movies, review
Review: Farmageddon
Woman Milking Cow. Albert J. Ewing, Ohio Historical Society Farmageddon is a 2011 documentary now streaming on Netflix. I watched it […]
food, politics
Quote of the day
From Jason Foscolo’s blog Food Law: At the NYT, Bittman evokes Mrs. Lovejoy in his support of the Bloomberg Soda […]
food, morality, sustainability
Too far from food
What my brain does when it hears the word “steak” Beatrice Marovich has a fascinating essay at Religion Dispatches called […]
food, sustainability
The blood footprint
More animal-friendly than a vegetarian? There are all sorts of ways in which people can alter their diets for ethical […]
food, politics, sustainability
The “E” word applied to food. No, it doesn’t stand for “educated.” Or “empathetic.”
Eric Schlosser lays down the law in the Washington Post: At the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting this year, […]
food, LGBT, links, police, sustainability
Tuesday links
New Hampshire Tea Partiers’ opinions of gay marriage range from apathetic to vaguely supportive. I wonder how many of those […]
food, politics, sustainability
Why should we care where Sarah Palin got her bunny (and how many shots it took)?
The designated Badass Quote of the Day for today over on Dispatches is from Jason Easley at Politics USA: Sarah […]
backyard chickens, food, sustainability
Hardcore eggs
Leslie Halleck is a horticulturist and general manager at North Haven Gardens in Dallas who blogs at growLively. Today she […]
animal rights, farming, food, morality, sustainability
Wow
That’s all I can say at the moment– just, wow. From Casaubon’s Book, an excerpt from a post entitled “On […]