Breakfast is important. You’ve likely heard this before, and now, the evidence is growing.
Research shows that the 18 percent of Americans older than 2 who regularly skip breakfast tend to weigh more and have other unhealthy habits, like eating too many sugary drinks or snacks, according to food experts speaking at the Institute of Food Technologists 2012 annual meeting in Las Vegas.
Tags: · breakfast, Diet, healthy eating, obesity, protein, sugary drinks, sugary snacks
CAFO pulls back the curtain on industrial agriculture.
CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories (Earth Aware, 2010) takes no shortcuts as it squires us on an uncomfortable walk through the ways of modern meat production. It’s a grimy, grisly world and while much is immediately apparent, it’s important to stay for the entire tour so you can appreciate all the connections, redundancies and stupidity in the system.
This isn’t easy. There are pictures — and text — that are pure horror show; glimpses of the slaughterhouse where you can almost smell the stench. But stay on the walk, so you’ll understand. That’s important, because in the end, this is not about a more efficient system that’s brutal but necessary to feed the world, but about a super-controlled corporate game that’s out of control.
Tags: · animal slaughter, beef, CAFOs, cattle, chicken, Daniel Imhoff, Fish, industrial meat, pigs, pork, poultry, protein, slaughterhouses
Barbara Kessler
Andrew Winston
Danielle Nierenberg
Anthony Swift