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How and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of this world—and what is to become of it. — Michael Pollen, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

BOOKS AND MOVIES A Mindful Carnivore, Tovar Cerulli Big River, documentary film Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer Fat Head, documentary film Food, Inc., Karl Weber Food, Inc., documentary film Food Rules, Michael Pollan In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan Inflammation Syndrome, Jack Challem King Corn, documentary film Perfect Health Diet, Paul

There it is: the ultimate commandment. Take care of your own. Protect your genes. Lay down your life for one child, two siblings, or eight first cousins. How many friends would that translate to? How many strangers who might still be out there, laying down their lives for other species?

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I don’t mean to deny the mouth-watering temptation of a fresh, juicy burger. Rather, my point’s about the stubborn reality of creating value: the $27 gap between the $3 or less the average American pays and the $30 or so a burger actually costs is economic harm that is done by industrial era food producers to people, communities, society, the

Decomposing algae consume oxygen dissolved in seawater and create oxygen-less (anoxic) waters where fish and crustaceans cannot survive. These oxygen-depleted zones are prominent along the eastern and southern coasts of the United States and along coasts in Europe, China, and Japan.[34] There are no easy, inexpensive, and rapid solutions to these