Archive for the 'dietary' Category
Morsels and Seeds: New Blog!
My friend and former colleague Cymantia Tomlinson-Bey just joined Morsels and Seeds, a blog that deals with food, farming, culture, and justice.
Anyone who reads my blog on a regular basis knows I’m deeply interested, and concerned, about all of the above. What really impresses me about Morsels and Seeds is that it’s produced entirely [...]
Why Urban Gardening: An Answer for Atrios
Atrios asks:
Please Get A Soil Lead Reading First
I guess we can make this contrarian Saturday. One thing I really don’t understand – help me! – is the regular stream of people promoting urban agriculture. I don’t understand the point. I’ve got nothing against community gardens and the like, I understand that even urban hellhole residents [...]
Stop HR 759
Just say no to HR 759. call Congress and tell your rep to vote NO.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
he way I see it, plain old normal food has sustained humanity for millions of years, and I’m just not into injecting jellyfish genes or what-have-you into my tomatoes for a redder, shionier, [...]
GMOs, Indian Suicides, and Bob Casey
I’ve been light on the blogging this weekend, spending most of my time in the garden, amending soil with compost, manure, and peat moss. We do everything the old-fashioned way: no chemical fertilizers, just plain old dirt and water.
Christina gets all her seeds from Seed Savers Exchange, which I highly recommend. We’re not [...]
Speaking of Taking a Dump…
HR 875 and HR 759 are major pieces of shit.
Read More..>>Spring has Sprung
… and with it my back has begun to ache. yesterday we began, a bit belatedly, to start working and amending the soil in the raised beds. Yesterday, I spaded in a thick layer of peat, dehydrated manure (man, did THAT stink), and perlite. Tomorrow and Wednesday, I get up super-early to [...]
Read More..>>Obama
Greenwald, as usual, is right:
Obama turns around and intervenes in a Democratic primary on behalf of one of the worst Bush enablers in Congress — not in order to help Barrow defeat an even-worse Republican, but to defeat a far better and plainly credible Democratic challenger.
For all of Obama’s talk about the wicked ways of [...]
Meat is Murder
From 1992 until about 2000, I was a vegetarian. Eggs, milk, and cheese were all part of my diet, but red meat, poultry, and fish were out. That all changed when I moved to Philadelphia, or to be more specific when I was at the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival with Jim and Jennie. [...]
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