I worked out of the PdF office today (one week to go ’til PdF 2008!), and for lunch Josh Sherman and I went to a Vietnamese sandwich place on Grand St. He got a traditional Vietnamese pork sandwich, and I picked up three enormous fresh spring rolls.
But the highlight of the trip was the bowl [...]
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Meat as an environmental hazard
I often get frustrated when I’m eating among people I don’t know well and they see I don’t eat most meat (though I do eat fish). Very often someone will ask, “is it for moral or ethical reasons?” First of all, what the hell does that mean? I think it means, do I [...]
Local vs. organic
WorldChanging has a great discussion today of organic vs. nonorganic and local vs. nonlocal food.
The globalization of organic food is already well under way: at Whole Foods you can buy organic asparagus flown in from Argentina, raspberries from Mexico, grass-fed meat from New Zealand. In an era of energy scarcity, the purchase of such products [...]
