online archive
4:00PM
SEP 25 2007
Why our food choices matter
From Greater Good, a special issue on Everyday Ethics, including an excerpt from Peter Singer and Jim Mason's The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter; and an interview with Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Tim Flannery reviews The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben. The “locavore” movement says we should only eat what is grown within a few miles of where we live. How about a few feet? An experiment in Brooklyn-style subsistence farming, starring smelly chickens, an angry rabbit, a freak tornado, a vegetable garden to die for, two psyched kids, and a marriage in the weeds. In These Times goes inside A Freegan World. There is a new dimension in eco-terror: Enter the "Vegansexuals".
