Willing to Kill? Or at Least to Watch the Killing?

Should you be willing to kill what you eat? Is this a precondition for eating meat? Monica Eng doesn’t just ruminate about this but actually turns up to watch cattle,…

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Is Organic Farming the Answer?

First, let me ‘fess up. I was raised amongst farmers who thought organic farming was not the way to feed the world. In fact, they tended to foam at the…

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Does Slow Food Do Anything?

Thanks Adam and Ji-Young for the comments on my previous post on Slow Food. I agree that until now the movement has been more programmatic (shall we say?) than activist.…

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