Are the foodies at The Washington Post reading The Slow Cook? A little more than a month ago I wrote about my father’s quadruple bypass and Nina Planck’s book “Real Food” under the heading “Is Cholesterol a Myth?” The question was whether the fetishistic approach to eliminating all traces of animal fat from the diet, […]
Whole Foods recently came out with its own standards for seafood sustainability that seem to provide a handy fig leaf for the farmed Atlantic salmon industry. Whole foods would bar use of antibiotics, growth stimulants and pesticides in salmon farming, but it merely encourages salmon farmers to reduce fish escapes and aim for a one-to-one […]
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Got an e-mail from a PR type today wanting me to post something about a debate over on the Economist magazine’s website, the proposition being: “There is an upside for humanity in the rise of food prices.” To which my initial response would have to be, YOU’RE BLEEPING KIDDING, RIGHT? Only a group of over-fed […]
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