There is a new book by a husband and wife team of academics from Toronto, titled The Locavore’s Dilemma, In Praise of the 10,000 Mile Diet. I read about it in MacLean’s magazine. Besides praise for corporate-driven agriculture, the book makes fantastic claims. Instead of making our communities healthier and more self-sufficient, the authors claim the […]
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Bringing Mindfulness to Eating
Being alive during a time of overwhelming planetary crises can sometimes mean waking up with existential angst. At these times, I always come back to how I can be most useful in the world; and then mundane reality reminds me I have to eat or else I’ll have no energy to be of use to […]