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 […]
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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 […]
To Eat Meat Or Not To Eat Meat?
This is an extremely relevant, contemporary question. One aspect of this debate is indisputable. Industrial meat production is destructive to Planetary Ecology. Rainforests, the lungs of the planet, are burned to make way for growing soy to produce cattle feed. Water sources become polluted. Greenhouse gasses (which affect climate change by trapping heat in […]