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Omnivory Pros and Cons

Assumptions I’m making as a vegetarian

February 3, 2010 by hollie Omnivory Pros and Cons

Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments and discussions! I’m so impressed with how everyone is both passionate and civil, and HELLO, if there’s going to be drinks later, you guys better invite me too.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my assumptions about food, and especially my assumptions as someone who has read 60+ [...]

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Staying Heart-Healthy Part 2: The Diet Wars, cont.

July 16, 2009 by hollie Omnivory Pros and Cons

The longer I write this blog and read about nutrition, the more interested I become in the idea that diet is the way that we can stay healthy into old age. The key to longevity, as far as I can tell, is to avoid heart disease in cancer. Heart disease is the leading cause of [...]

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Staying Heart-Healthy Part 1 – The Diet Wars

July 13, 2009 by hollie My experience with an elimination diet

As long-time readers of this blog know, I’m fascinated by different diets. For a long time I believed that a totally plant-based vegan diet was the way to be truly healthy and long-lived, but I struggled desperately with getting enough vegetables. Recently I’d decided to add meat back in for awhile to replace what seemed [...]

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Do hunter-gatherers have it right?

June 3, 2009 by hollie Omnivory Pros and Cons

An interesting article at the BBC, entitled, Do hunter-gatherers have it right?
Listening to Tom Standage talking about his new book, An Edible History of Humanity this morning I was reminded of a paper written by the anthropologist and author Jared Diamond in the late 1980’s.

Diamond described agriculture as, “the worst mistake in the history of the human race”.
Farming [...]

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Community conversation, and “humane” meat

October 9, 2008 by hollie Factory Farms & Animals As Food

Last night I went to a community talk at a local art gallery. I went with my mother-in-law, Julie, and I’m guessing the event had about thirty other people in attendance. The owner of the gallery is sponsoring these conversations, happening once a month, on various themes, and this month’s theme was “Food”.
Despite the one-word [...]

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