The quest to make meat without animals You could see test tube burgers on a menu sooner than you think by Kate Lunau on Sunday, February 19, 2012 4:30pm – 0 Comments Because of concern over the environment, animal rights, or even their health, more people are adopting a vegetarian diet—see the “Meatless Mondays” movement, [...]

Never mind the meat — worry about eating enough plants By Andy Bellatti 13 Feb 2012 7:57 AM   This post is part of Protein Angst, a series on the environmental and nutritional complexities of high-protein foods. Our goal is to publish a range of perspectives on these very heated topics. Add your feedback and story suggestions [...]

Factory Farms CAFO conviction: Court holds factory farm accountable for water pollution By Kai Olson-Sawyer 15 Feb 2012 1:36 PM   Aerial shot of the Nelson Faria Dairy in Royal, Wash. Note the tiny dots that are the dairy cows congregating in the holding pens. (Image by Google Maps.) In a precedent-setting decision earlier this month that [...]

Interview with a nutritarian: Bonnie Posted on February 15, 2012 by Emily Boller Bonnie suffered from the physical and emotional pain of cystic acne since her teenage years. She tried just about every medication available to relieve the symptoms, but to no avail. Then she made the decision to replace the standard American diet with high-nutrient foods. Today [...]

Big Pharma Routinely Suppresses Data from Clinical Trials—but FDA Approves These Dangerous Drugs Anyway!   Category : Topic : Government & other Corporate tyranny (51) Health Canada & other FDA Abuses (15) Date Posted : Source Date : Jan 24, 2012 Jan 17, 2012 Help us persuade Congress to reform the agency with our Action [...]

Planetary Destroyer: Monsanto by anticorruptionsociety THE BRILLIANT DOCUMENTARY “THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO” TELLS THE WHOLE UGLY STORY Paraguay farmer educates his neighbors about Monsanto: We are going to talk about the production model of GM soybeans promoted by Monsanto. It’s a true multi-national company. It’s everywhere in the world. It’s objective is to control all [...]

It has been known for some time that religious belief and behavior affect the brain—in the same way all habits, emotions and memories build neural pathways. But can we pinpoint specific chemicals, genes and clusters of neurons that give rise to religiosity, or to atheism? Rutgers University evolutionary biologist Lionel Tiger thinks we can: “Religion is [...]

What Would Ben Franklin Do? Influences of America’s First Environmentalist Posted: 03 Dec 2011 07:08 AM PST by Lauren Simenauer, cross posted from Science Progress In the late 18th century, Benjamin Franklin was something of an icon in Europe. The French hung portraits of Franklin on their walls much in the same way college students [...]

To the Seattle Times:

Your article asking “Is Raw Milk Safe?” (March 21, 2010) missed the forest for the trees.

    Pressure Is On to Ban a Hazardous but Profitable Feed Additive  By Sheila Pell   © Getty Images   It was almost a decade ago when seven families in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, a town of only about 2,500 people, got together to discuss the high number of rare cancers diagnosed there in recent [...]

Most websites discussing Crohn’s Disease say that the etiology or origin and cause of Crohn’s Disease is unknown. There is mounting evidence that Johne’s Disease in cattle, caused by paratuberculosis, is the same disease as Crohn’s Disease in humans. Paratuberculosis is not killed in the Pasteurization process. For the most complete and objective study I [...]

BIBLIOGRAPHY VEGETARIAN COOKBOOKS Rachel Albert, Cooking With Rachel, Creative Vegetarian and Macrobiotic Cuisine, Oroville, CA: George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation, 1989, ISBN 0-918860-49-0 (strictly vegetarian). American Vegan Society, The Vegan Kitchen, 501 Old Harding Hwy., Malaga, NJ 08328 (strictly vegetarian). Rynn Berry, Famous Vegetarians and their Favorite Recipes, New York; Pythagorean Publishers, 1993, ISBN 0-9626169-1-5, (strictly [...]

23 Vegetablearian Songs WE JUST NEVER UNDERSTOOD Sung in the style of a negro spiritual Chorus in minor: Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord Lord, Lord, Lord Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, We just never understood. Minor: Someday the Lord will come. That’s what the good book have said. He be punishin’ the wicked, And rewardin’ the good. [...]

22 FINAL SPECULATIONS SPECULATION ABOUT AN UNCONSCIOUS CONNECTION In this chapter I will pick up the thread I left behind at the end of Chapter 14, The Ethics of Diet. Some of you will already think I have gone off the deep end. Now I am going to venture even further. If you rate low [...]

21 GODDESS RECIPES BREAKFAST FOOD LIQUIDS, JUICE AND TEA Drink a lot of liquids when you first wake up. See the section in the previous chapter entitled Liquids, Juice and Tea, p. 349. FRUIT, JUICE, SMOOTHIES, NUTS These can make a quick, healthy, and tasty breakfast. See the section in the previous chapter entitled Fruit, [...]

20 HEALTHY COOKING TECHNIQUES Let’s say you’re convinced. You’d like to make a change. Where do you start? How do you cook this healthy food I’m talking about? Keep reading, and I’ll tell you step-by-step. LIQUIDS, JUICE AND TEA When we wake up, we are thirsty. Drink a glass of water. Exercise and drink more [...]

19 MAKING THE TRANSITION THE INITIAL HURDLES Some people who become vegetarians claim they never felt better and would never go back. Others try to become vegetarian but give up, complaining that they don’t feel good in some way or that they feel the need for meat. However, … the neophyte’s nausea does not come [...]

18 ORGANIC GARDENING GROW YOUR OWN ORGANIC VEGETABLES Organic gardening is nothing new. It is the way people grew crops for thousands of years—until the 1940s when organochlorine pesticides and artificial N-P-K fertilizers were introduced. Don’t believe the propaganda of the petrochemical companies. No pesticides are necessary. Since World War II, we have been adding [...]

17 THE VOCABULARY OF DIET VEGETARIANS OF OLD The term “vegetarian” is one that arose in the 1800s, and its exact definition is still not settled. The ancient vegetarians obviously did not refer to themselves as “vegetarians.” They described themselves as “not eating flesh food” and as “Pythagoreans.” The Roman historian Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.) [...]

16 TWO VERSIONS OF REALITY I read a lot of newspapers and news magazines. However, I always read them critically. I consider myself something of a media analyst. I was a member of the respected Seattle Central America Media Project back during the Sandinista-Contra War in the 1980s. I made five trips to Central America [...]

15 COULD I SOMEHOW BE WRONG ABOUT ALL OF THIS? THE VEGETARIAN DEBUNKERS The debunkers come in two classes. First, there are the public relations people for the beef, chicken, egg, and milk industries. They are thoroughly unconvincing. (www.whymilk.com, www.meatingplace.com, www.beefnutrition.com, www.beefboard.org, www.porkboard.org, www.aeb.org.) Then there are the academic debunkers, who merit more serious consideration. [...]

14 THE ETHICS OF DIET THE MYTH OF THE WHOLESOME BARNYARD Seattle resident David Coats points out in his book (Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm) that our image of animals living a happy existence in the barnyard is a myth of the past. The barnyard was phased out after World War II, and the factory farming [...]

12 POPULATION EXPLOSION AND A PLANT-BASED DIET WHY DO WE HAVE A POPULATION EXPLOSION? Our species has been on the verge of extinction many times. The latest low point came with the explosion of the volcano known as Toba in Sumatra around 74,000 years ago. Ash was dumped on much of the world, and huge [...]

11 THE ECONOMY AND A PLANT-BASED DIET Meat, eggs, and dairy products make for bad macroeconomics and bad microeconomics. They are bad for the world economy, the national economy, and the family budget. Animal foods are more expensive than plant-based foods. A family can easily cut its food bill by eating a plant-based diet. The [...]

10 THE ENVIRONMENT AND A PLANT-BASED DIET   Our impact on the physical environment is enormous. Of course, much of the problem results from burning fossil fuels, contamination of the environment with pesticides and other chemicals, our exploding population and the concomitant usurping of land from wild animals and plants. However, a significant part of [...]

9 COWBOY CULTURE CONQUERS THE ENTIRE WORLD CROSSING OCEANS Tribes descended from the patriarchal invaders declared holy Crusades in which they tortured and killed heretics, Jews, Moslems, and supposed witches—some of them surviving priestesses of the old goddess religion, some of them just unfortunate women falsely accused. Viking descendants of the patriarchal invaders conquered Normandy, [...]

6 JUDAISM AND THE HISTORY OF FOOD MINING THE LEGENDS OF GENESIS The stories of Genesis are symbolic and allegorical. For one who is not afraid to interpret them in a non-literal way, there is much history to be found there. Scholars such as J.J. Bachofen and A.M. Hocart believed in the “historicity of myth.” [...]

4 DIET: THE RELEVANCE OF THE PAST TO THE PRESENT WHY STUDY THE HISTORY OF FOOD? When it comes to eating the contemporary, animal-based, high-fat diet, many people tell me: “That was the way our human and prehuman ancestors ate.” “That was the way people of our tradition or religion ate.” “Our religion explicitly endorses [...]

5 LOSS OF EDEN: THIS ERA OF CONTINUOUS WARFARE OLD EUROPE, BEFORE 4300 B.C.E., A PARADIGM OF PARTNERSHIP In Old Europe there were towns of up to 10,000 people. There were paved streets, small, two-story temples, and five-room homes with plaster floors and walls. There were beautiful frescos on the walls, vases and sculpture, shops [...]

3 DEDICATION DEDICATION 1 This book is dedicated to the wife whose husband has always been a good date, and who is probably going to break his date with her by dying too soon. To the husband, who is going to break her heart, by breaking his heart. DEAR WIFE WITH SOON-TO-BE BROKEN HEART, He’s [...]

2 OVERVIEW: WHY THE GODDESS THEME? WHY A THEOLOGY OF FOOD? What is theology and how does theology relate to food? Generally theology includes the search for answers to such difficult questions as: What will happen to us when we die? Will there will be rewards and punishments? Does god exist? What is the nature [...]