It is likely that most of us who read this magazine are grateful we live where there is such bounty. I believe that the simplified message of 2012 is about putting our love into action. The following are a few items regarding food that may become topics of very interesting conversations. 1. The Decolonization Diet […]
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You Are What Your Food Eats
Health conscious people are going to great lengths to watch what they eat these days. They acknowledge the old adage: “you are what you eat”. After all, it makes intuitive sense, and under the laws of physics it must be true. What else is your body made of, if not the food you eat? If […]
Chickens And Piglets And Lambs! Oh My!
I spent a week of spring break on my sister’s 107 acre farm, North of Kamloops, near my home town of Barriere. Five years ago, her family moved onto this beautiful piece of land that is recovering from being logged 10 years prior. The property is bordered on one side by a small river with a […]
Food: Some Thoughts On Veganism
In reading about different diets, we may have come across words of encouragement by famous people on the merits of vegetarianism. Einstein has said: “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” From Paul McCartney: “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, […]
Food: Arable Land, Local Food, and Social Evolution
Until recent discussions about food security, we rarely thought about agriculture — the soil, the water needed, the sun, the farmer. Our thinking has been something like this: It’s not necessary for me to worry about food since I have a paying job that allows me to buy my food. Just as I do my thing, […]