Cattle as Food Processors
A thought-provoking post from Jayson Lusk on the common and on-the-face-of-it plausible claim that grain-eating uses far fewer resources/much less energy than meat-eating. His counter: I suspect only a very…
Read moreWhat the Roman Empire Knew About Food Miles
Provisioning Rome, one of the world’s largest cities, if not the largest with as many as a million people by about 55 B.C., was one of the greatest challenges…
Read moreFood: Farming is Only the Beginning
If there’s one point I find myself making over and over and over again about food, it’s that farming is only the beginning. So do take a look at this great…
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