The image of a 7 year-old wearing a bra is disturbing to me. Not only is childhood being cut short in the West driven by many factors including media of all sorts, an obsession with the body, with sexualizing everything, the glamorization of violence, etc, etc – you know the deal. Now childhood is being cut short even earlier by means of biology.
Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’
Big girls, beefy hormones
Posted in agriculture, Diets, Farming, Food, In the News, meat, random, tagged agriculture, beef, big girls, childhood obesity, cooking, cuisine, endocrinology, female puberty, food, hormones, hormones in meat, life, meat, milk, nutrition, obesity, organic, organic food, puberty, random on August 15, 2010 | 9 Comments »
The Future of Food in Peril
Posted in agriculture, Farming, Food, In the News, Organic, random, tagged agriculture, Crop Diversity, Farming, food, food history, gooseberries, life, Nikolai Vavilov, Pavlovsk, Pavlovsk Station, random, raspberries, Russia, seed bank, Seedbank, St Petersburg, strawberries, Vavilov on August 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
You’ve probably never heard of the Pavlovsk agricultural station. I hadn’t until this morning, but thank the high heavens I did. Located near St Petersburg, Russia, this institution is one of the world’s leading seedbanks. During WWII, 12 scientists starved to death rather than eat its contents, in order to protect it. A place like that [...]
Engaged Dharma
Posted in Food Review, random, Vegetables & Fruit, tagged activism, agriculture, buddhism, dhamma, dharma, ecology, Engaged Dharma, food, organic, Organic Farming on August 8, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Last night I returned from a weekend retreat. This was a meditation retreat like no other. Half silent Vipassana meditation, half activities and discussions about activism in the world and approaching it from a Dharma perspective. In other words, Engaged Dharma.
Anatomy of a muffin
Posted in Food Review, random, Recipes, tagged agriculture, baking soda, cooking, ecology, Eggs, farm workers, Farming, Flour, food, food history, food science, Ingredients, labor, milk, Muffins, Pecans, Sugar, sugar beets, sugarcane, Wheat, world trade on July 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I was starving after yoga this morning (Chandra Yoga Studio – amazing teachers & most affordable I’ve found in TA), and stopped at Loveat for a muffin and a free coffee (I had reached my ten!). In most religions there is some sort of prayer or thanks for the food, acknowledging some higher power, hard [...]
How important is it (really) to buy local?
Posted in Food Review, meat, random, Vegetables & Fruit, tagged agriculture, and Takeaways, BBC, Blood, Britain, Chicken, Chicken Processing Plant, cooking, Documentary, Fair Trade, Film, food, Food Factories, Food production, Fruits, Global Economy, Grocery stores, life, Local Produce, Market, Marketing, organic, random, Reality TV, Rice paddies, Shrimp, Shrimp factory, Southeast Asia, supermarkets, Sweat, USA, Vegetables on January 17, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Before the experience, he had been a staunch “Buy British” supporter. Being a farmer, this makes perfect sense. No complaints here. But upon his return, he had changed his mind and was educating his friends on the matter. Why? The food industry in Asia supports millions of people. Maybe more. There would be no big Western food companies, whether they be MacDonald’s or Lean Cuisine, without ultra cheap foodstuffs. Even fancy restaurants are affected. Not every eatery can afford locally caught fresh fish and shellfish. I know from experience at having to defrost and clean hundreds of prawns and scallops and mussels every day at a very high-end restaurant in Tel Aviv – one that specialized in seafood.
The Ideal Human Diet
Posted in Diets, meat, Vegetables & Fruit, tagged agriculture, carnivore, carnivorism, diet, ethics, food, Forbes.com, Jonny Bowden, life, New York Times, paleolithic, paleolithic diets, prehistoric, random, Recipes, The Ideal Human Diet, vegan, vegan diet, vegetarian on January 12, 2010 | 12 Comments »
What we eat is who we are. The food and drink we imbibe becomes the fabric of our cells. I read this fascinating story about a new “Urban Caveman Diet” in the New York Times yesterday, I felt it more than relevant to share this with all of you. I wonder, what is the ideal human diet?
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