Dietary fundamentalism impairs sight and hearing
Too often, conversations about diet get short-circuited by the certainty and intolerance characteristic of fundamentalism.
agriculture
Of the Earth: Eating and being
The greens and meat are made of all these things, all these places, and more. And so, too, are we, as we ingest them.
Eating and caring: The lines we draw
I think everyone holds some version of the same conceptual category: “Fellow creatures about whom I care too much to eat.”
Food in an ideal world
What would your ideal, sustainable world look like?
Meat and meaning (or, Hunting on the brain)
The past few months have been crazy. I had the final six chapters of my book to draft. And I had a thesis to write.
Deer: Part of every stew, every salad, every stir-fry
Venison, a forester friend tells me, is the best way he knows to eat trees. He points out that whitetails do a dandy job of converting cellulose into protein. When Cath and I sit down to a bowl of venison stew, we are eating more than potato, carrot, and deer. We are also eating maple … Read more
A small idea sprouts wings
Two years ago, it was small. Just a glimmer of an idea. Nothing more than a flicker of movement, caught out of the corner of my mind’s eye. Bold one moment, it would dash into full view like a blustery red squirrel. Furtive the next moment, it would skitter off into the mental underbrush. (I … Read more