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Tempeh is better, I like it too, and I'll eat it, provided I know it's good quality stuff - I trust my local health food store, they get it from people who use the traditional methods to prepare it. There is so much misinformation out there about soy, and, of course, it's a huge agricultural...

Wow, Wifey, that is bad stuff, isn't it? My kids never had white bread here, they used to ask for it, because they ate it at their friends, but I refused. I couldn't stand Kraft Mac & Cheese, so I always made them the real stuff - as for Fruit Loops and Kool Aid, I couldn't afford them, so...

Actually, bibliophile birds, you contradicted yourself a bit. If they ate dried meats when they couldn't hunt actively, then they were still eating meat. We have always eaten both meat and plants, our teeth are the proof of that, molars to grind, incisors to rip flesh. I had the daughter of...

Oh, no, you don't eliminate whole food groups at all, if anything you add back all the stuff they've been telling us is bad for us - because it is actually what we should be eating! My mother is a prime example of someone who has followed all the 'nutrionist' style eating - she thinks it's the...

Don't be so sure, there are some great recipes in there!

Get it, Gina, you won't be disappointed.

I'm bumping this thread back up to the surface, given some of the other discussions going on around here right now :)

I grow my own garlic here, and prefer the hardnecks also - but yes, that is a lot of garlic!

Michael Pollan calls the fad following 'nutritionism', and its a huge factor in our dietary decline in this country - unfortunately we are spreading it throughout the world, so once healthy diets are now polluted with our wonderfully 'improved' food, to the point where they're becoming as...

No, the book isn't political in the common use (the common division that's tearing up society, but that's a whole 'nother rant). It explains a bit about the politics of food at the beginning of the book, as Wifey explained, because, as has been pointed out in this thread, politics, big ag and...

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Well, I wouldn't go on a 'fast food' diet because their food stream is from industrial food sources, but I do get the point of what he's reporting. A better place to read up on good recipes, food science and why we need to eat a more 'natural' diet is to read Nourishing Traditions: The...

Probably because that isn't what I said. Thank you, Wifey, for explaining what I was thinking.

What qualifies Michael Pollan to do his expose on the industrial food systems and bring to light all that's wrong with it? Research. I am not impressed with degrees, I am impressed with intelligence and reason, with real life experience.

Just because he's a comedian doesn't mean he isn't smart, isn't doing research, and isn't worth listening to - especially when the medical establishment is in the tank with the pharmaceutical industry. Better living through pharmaceuticals - I think not. I'm reading Nina Planck's Real Food...

If you go back through old threads you'll see the negativity, but remember, we've stopped the politics, which was a huge factor in contributing to the negativity. We're moving forward, Dac, don't look back! :)

If I have free time I prefer to spend it in my garden. I run around so much, my idea of a vacation is to just stay home and putter :) We get away a lot, we go up to the house in Maine, we go north from there into the North Woods, lots of lovely water up there to enjoy, too. I also have to...

I live six miles from the coast and I never go to the beach - well, a friend and I walk Duxbury beach occasionally, but I haven't been in the heat of the summer for years now.

If the discussion about bureaucratic red tape is on subject for the thread there is no reason why it would be considered 'banned', that isn't the point here, it's the disintegration of every single thread into a political battleground we're trying to end.

Oh, that poor doggie, your picture brought tears to my eyes - and your wonderful children nursing her, keeping her warm - I hope she's ok! :fl