I got laid off this week. Well, it’s just the last two weeks of my food appreciation classes at a private elementary school here in the District of Columbia that I’ll be missing. Apparently they’re tightening belts even in places where tuition is around the same as my mortgage payment, and with only two weeks […]
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Just poking around the lunch room at my daughter’s charter school here in the District of Columbia I happened to look at the nutritional information on the back of an 8-ounce container of chocolate milk. Milk is a health food for children, right? Builds strong muscles and bones, right? Imagine my dismay when I saw that […]
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It used to be common practice on family farms to collect the kitchen scraps and leavings from the dinner table to feed the hogs. It was called slop. Quick, cheap, effective. No need to throw perfectly edible garbage away. Today most hogs are fed a prescribed diet in an industrial setting. But we saved the […]
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