Rachel Laudan

Published figures suggest that, in Australia, producing wheat and other grains results in: at least 25 times more sentient animals being killed per kilogram of useable protein more environmental damage, and a great deal more animal cruelty than does farming red meat. How is this possible? Mike Archer, Professor of Evolution of Earth and Life [...]

  “And those?’ I asked, pointing to a pile of white things in the corner of the butcher’s counter.  “Salted bones,” she said, “huesos salados.” This was in a small market in Barcelona a few years ago.  For soup, explained the owner. So on my salt trail in Catalonia in northern Spain, I mull over [...]

To what extent do you think that whole sacrifice thing was just nice little sideline for keeping the priests well fed? And, by extension, their flock, once the priests had had their fill. That’s what Jeremy asks. Don’t psychologists say that their three great unanswered questions are sleep, laughter, and religion?  Far be it from [...]