The world is a dangerous place. And the list of dangers includes our food supply. If a government agency with a mandate to protect us from food-borne pathogens tells us a food is safe, is that good enough? It’s not good enough for me, or for many others who are appalled at the state of […]
Author Archives: Tsiporah Grignon
Liquids We Drink
Almost 7 billion people need to drink clean water in order to survive. Agriculture also requires water. Therefore, it has become our collective duty to be active in the protection and conservation of the planet’s fresh water. That is why the United Nations general assembly held a vote at the end of July of […]
FOOD: Eating What There Is
As thinking and feeling beings, it has become difficult to look at the world that humans have created and not feel very sad. Why were so many born to suffer? Why have humans been so careless and cavalier with the planet that sustains us? Each day we wake up and persevere with our lives. First […]
FOOD: “Buyer Beware” In The Health Food Industry
Recently I was given a media pass to the Health Food Trade show, since I write about food for Synergy Magazine. During the 90s, I attended this trade show as an employee of a Nanaimo health food store. That was when I met our very own mile-a-minute Dirk….but I digress. As an old foodie, I really […]
Food: The West Coast Hippie Diet Of The ‘70s
A major focus of the lifestyle changes embraced by the hippie movement involved looking at our relationship with food and nutrition. Having grown up as baby boomers at the beginning of the big push to industrialize agriculture, the majority of hippies intuitively recognized the perils of growing food using toxins such as pesticides […]