Tag Archive 'poverty'

Nov 25 2008

Food Insecurity #2, Meat Industry

Published by annalisa under journal entries, local food

2. Amount of food grown for the meat industry
Does this even need to be mentioned? 1 pound of beef requires 8 pounds of grain (and tons of water, and leaves a bunch of pollution, but I’ll get to that later). Eating the grain would have saved everyone a lot of time, money and been gentler [...]

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Nov 11 2008

Discovering where we live

Published by annalisa under journal entries

Krista Tippett’s interviews with Majora Carter and Calvin DeWitt offer hope and wisdom for those in the “environmental” movement. Listen to the whole thing, or check out gems on:
the role of academic experts in the environmental movement
How did we trick ourselves into thinking that we would NOT know (or be able to learn) how to [...]

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