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- The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is…
- Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent…
- Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast…
- I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the…
- ...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that…
- A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served…
- In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know - "relationship marketing," as…
- The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
- Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it's one of the most powerful things an…
- Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a…
- Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.
- One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.
- At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the…
- When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery…
- The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it,…
- What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
- Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type…
- More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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