This article is inspired from speaking to a high school class recently about the impact of our food choices. Seeing more of any of the following three people is well worth a visit...
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Bringing Mindfulness to Eating
Being alive during a time of overwhelming planetary crises can sometimes mean waking up with existential angst. At these times, I always come back to how I can be most useful in the...
The Shadow Side of the Well-Feds’ Relationship to Food
According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed, and the final third is starving… experiencing gnawing, daily hunger. Nearly...
Momentum To Learn About Food
Food information is everywhere now. It beckons to us from magazines (thanks Synergy) and television shows and commercials. Documentary movies teach about farming practices and corrupt...
Food: Prepare For Higher Food Prices
The price of food is rising. Inflationary food prices have occurred in more than 60 countries over the past two years, and in many countries, people have taken to the streets to protest. Extreme...
To Eat Meat Or Not To Eat Meat?
This is an extremely relevant, contemporary question. One aspect of this debate is indisputable. Industrial meat production is destructive to Planetary Ecology. Rainforests, the...
The Safety of Our Food
The world is a dangerous place. And the list of dangers includes our food supply. If a government agency with a mandate to protect us from food-borne pathogens tells us a food is...
Liquids We Drink
Almost 7 billion people need to drink clean water in order to survive. Agriculture also requires water. Therefore, it has become our collective duty to be active in the protection and...
FOOD: Eating What There Is
As thinking and feeling beings, it has become difficult to look at the world that humans have created and not feel very sad. Why were so many born to suffer? Why have humans been so...
FOOD: “Buyer Beware” In The Health Food Industry
Recently I was given a media pass to the Health Food Trade show, since I write about food for Synergy Magazine. During the 90s, I attended this trade show as an employee of a Nanaimo...
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