Sublime

Local, human-scale economies and food systems that honor the “triple bottom line”: people, planet, and profits.

major . . . corporations. . . . These are animals with human genes; these are animals that have a variety of viruses in them. They did this without consulting Congress. They did this without making it public. These animals have been in the food chain now since 1995.""If this is true, people eating meats and

I asked him what was on his bookshelf. J. I. Rodale. Sir Albert Howard. Aldo Leopold. Wes Jackson. Wendell Berry. Louis Bromfield. The classic texts of organic agriculture and American agrarianism.

Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA since 2014, is among those taking note and reforming the organisation she leads in response: she quickly realised that the organisation’s model was ‘allowing people to outsource their sense of agency; outsource their civic engagement to us. We were saying: give us 20 bucks a month to become a

They appear to want some of the same things most of us want: recognition from their peers and communities and better lives for the people they care about. Being

John Carlin, “If the World’s Greatest Chef Cooked for a Living, He’d Starve,” Guardian, December 11, 2006, http://observer.theguardian.com/foodmonthly/futureoffood/story/0,,1969713,00.html

the government protects sugar, and the government subsidizes corn. As a result, more foods get made with high-fructose corn syrup, and more cattle get fed corn, meaning more cattle get fed antibiotics. The quantity of high-fructose corn syrup thus goes up in our diet, and the prevalence of dangerous bacteria goes up as well. And in complicated ways