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Green Dreams Aug 27, 2008
New Yorkers Trade The Office For The Barn
A Harvard MBA, six-figure job as an investment banker, and TriBeCa apartment didn’t stop Torrey Reade, 56, from wanting to go back to basics, trading her city life for a 126-acre farm in southern New Jersey where she now raises... more
The Power Veggies of Late-Summer Aug 26, 2008
An In Season Update
In August and September, beets, apples, raspberries, spinach, and chard are in full-harvest. An article in the Chicago Tribune outlined just how good each of these summer treats are for you: Apples are full of pectin (lowers cholesterol and glucose... more
Sustainable Happy Hour Aug 22, 2008
Organic Vodkas Reviewed
I had an organic beer the other day and it was delicious, but after a hard week, let’s face it, sometimes you want something a little harder. Enter Eat. Drink. Better’s review of organic vodkas, and not a moment too... more
Foodie 101 Aug 20, 2008
College Students Tackle Food Topics
No longer just for agriculture departments, food studies is entering mainstream academia. As The Washington Post reported, Yale, Boston University, and New York University all offer food studies programs, and others, including the University of New Hampshire and the University... more
Wine in a Box -- It's Good and It's Green Aug 19, 2008
Boxed Wine Gains Eco-Friendly Rep
Boxed wine is shaking off tackiness and gaining a green-reputation instead. As Serious Eats reported, a standard wine bottle (750 milliliter) traveling from a California winery to New York produces 5.2 pounds of carbon emissions; a three-liter box of wine... more
Have It Your Organic Way Aug 15, 2008
What's On The Menu At O!Burger
Finally, a place for people who want their fries eco-friendly. O!Burger, a new fast food restaurant in West Hollywood, CA is as organic as it is fast. On the menu: grass-fed burgers, free-range turkey burgers, fries cooked in organic soybean... more
Big Supermarkets -- Even Wal-Mart? -- Stocking Local Produce Aug 13, 2008
Score Another Big Win for the Small Consumer
Now that “local” equals “quality and yummy,” consumers are flocking to farmers’ markets, and fuel costs are making it too expensive to get food from one coast to the other, supermarkets are stocking more stores with local produce. Some signs... more
Change In A Bottle Aug 12, 2008
Davis CA Is Going Bottled Water-Free, Can You?
After restricting single-serving bottled water in 2007, Davis, CA is taking the next step in sustainability—losing bottled water entirely. In a new Reusable Water Bottle Initiative partnership with Nalgene, the city is trying to reduce their carbon footprint, waste,... more
GMO Update Aug 7, 2008
Consumers 1, Monsanto 0
On Wednesday, genetically modified foods giant Monsanto announced that’s selling its dairy hormone business. Apparently the earlier campaigns to stop the sale of milk from cows that had been given rBGH hormone (that’s a bovine growth hormone) have finally paid... more
Skirt The Law With A Herdshare Aug 6, 2008
Get Your (Legal) Local Milk
Raw, unpasteurized local milk illegal in your state? Still want to get a frothy cup of local milk each morning? There may be a way around the raw milk laws—a herdshare. When you own the cow getting your raw milk... more
Environmental Working Group discovered that developing fetuses are born with an average 200 toxic chemicals inside them (taken from The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Katz).
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Initially, this article brought a smile to my face, as not only do I support avoiding the use of pesticides in crops, but I also happen to be a vegeterian in the true sense of the word; I avoid eating all animal products and therefore feel I make a significiant impact on the environment.
However, when I read this statement: , "And, bonus: once the pigs have solved the beetle problem, Koan plans to sell them as organic pork.", I realized that this was just another article, another idea, that is really just "half green".
Until we realize the full impact of the cycle we are in by producing pigs, chickens, cows, etc, for food, we will never reach "green". Until we stop viewing animals as a commodity, we will never reach "green". And until it sinks in that eating animals and animal products is horrible for our health and the environment, these half green ideas are both offensive and embarrassing.
Granted, animals that are raised humanely are better than factory farmed animals, but eating them offers nothing nutritionally (Dr. John McDougall, "The McDougall Plan" and John Robbins, "Diet for a New America") to humans and only affects the environment marginally, if at all.
It is hard to take anyone seriously who claims they are an environmentalist while continuing to consume animals. I am sure I will get some replies questing whether I wear leather, own a car, etc., however it is our daily food choices that have the most impact on the enviorment on so many levels, hands down.
Truthfully, what I find most disturbing about this article is how little respect is payed to the hard working pigs. Once again, and inevitably, this article is less about the environment than it about human consumption-what we get out of it.
Ironically enough, the less we eat animals, organic or not, the better off our health, and the environment, will be.
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