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Comment on Brooklyn Food Conference by Marillyn @ just-making-noise

Marillyn @ just-making-noise — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:07:07 +0000

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Comment on Apartment gardening by Mark Waterbury

Mark Waterbury — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:38:27 +0000

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Comment on Put down that hamburger by Britta

Britta — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:23:40 +0000

As an ‘environmentalist,’ I am ashamed to admit that I’ve become one of those people who doesn’t think it’s a meal without meat. Since eliminating wheat from my diet (and thus solving 90% of my life’s problems… no joke!), I’ve upped the quantity of meat and eggs I’ve been eating (though I have also eliminated all dairy). It’s one of the only foods I can tolerate without stomach upset. I haven’t really been able to come up with any kind of solution for my newfound environmental sin. Eating meat substitutes are not an option with my tummy problems. I’ve been stressing out about it and have been considering trying to develop some sort of diet for myself that won’t have me miserable but will also drastically cut down on meat. Come the New Year, I’m going to try cutting down which means I’ll basically be subsisting on vegetables, not inclusive of the root kinds!

Comment on Put down that hamburger by truculentandunreliable

truculentandunreliable — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:12:46 +0000

Yeah, I completely agree. Meat is a really inefficient food in terms of allocation of resources, and as the human population increases, even if we wanted to eat grass-fed beef all the time, we couldn’t because there aren’t enough resources to consume that much meat. It’s not like we’re supposed to have that much meat in our diets anyway–the double-whammy of refined carbohydrates and excessive meat consumption have lead to us being really, really sick.

Comment on Put down that hamburger by Meredith

Meredith — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:41:34 +0000

Got that right. I forgot to mention that extremely important point that can usually get me babbling for 20 minutes or more! Yes, it makes cows very sick, which is why the industry pumps them full of antibiotics. Corn screws with their digestion and makes them more susceptible to disease and illness. But even grass-fed beef won't solve this problem entirely. I think it's really important that we all start treating meat as a sometime food.

Comment on Put down that hamburger by truculentandunreliable

truculentandunreliable — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:35:48 +0000

And, as I’m sure you know, in the US animals are primarily fed corn, which is a greedy crop that erodes soil and requires massive amounts of fuel and petroleum-based fertilizer to maintain. And it makes cows very, very sick, which leads them to, ahem, emit more methane. Even dropping beef out of one’s diet or incorporating grass-fed, local beef instead makes a big difference. Additionally, grass-fed beef is actually lower in cholesterol. There was a time when corn-fed beef was considered a delicacy because it has superior marbeling but was more expensive because feed cost a lot more than grass. I think we need to go back to that time.

Comment on A beautiful morning, happily spent by hamburgerhotdog

hamburgerhotdog — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:35:55 +0000

updates por favor

Comment on A beautiful morning, happily spent by Kaj

Kaj — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:48:57 +0000

When I lived in Brooklyn, I had a friend that had never seen a cow. To a native Midwesterner who practically grew up on her grandfather’s farm, this was pretty much unimaginable.

I will never, ever forget the day we took the train out to New Jersey to visit the cows. It remains one of my best memories about NYC.

Comment on A beautiful morning, happily spent by The Mayor of Bethville

The Mayor of Bethville — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:13:56 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you! I had no idea there was a farmer’s market so close to where I live. I’m going to check it out.

Comment on A beautiful morning, happily spent by notaclevername

notaclevername — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:59:56 +0000

One of the things my friends and I complain about is the lack of good farmer’s markets in the area. It just isn’t profitable to have a small, non-commercial farm down here. You’re extraordinarily lucky and I’m extraordinarily jealous!

PS I love Cherokee Purples like crazy. I eat them at work and my coworkers think I’m insane.