Editors Note: This is a guest post by Diana Rodgers talking about her new film project, Kale Vs. Cow. Abs are sexy, but our food system is where it all starts. Please check this out and support the film.-Robb KALE vs. COW: THE CASE FOR BETTER MEAT Why does it matter to me that people… Continue Reading
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What The Health: A Wolf’s Eye Review
So…I’ve had a lot of folks ask me for my thoughts on the Netflix documentary film “What The Health.” I’ll be honest, I drug my feet in doing this as these postmortems tend to be fairly painful, but the requests for some commentary has reached a bit of a fever pitch, so, here it is,… Continue Reading
Should Vegan Parents be Jailed?
A couple of weeks ago, I was on a panel at Polyface Farm with some colleagues. It was part of the Food Freedom Fundraisers, a benefit for the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund. We were discussing our rights to eat the foods that we feel best nourish our family. For the most part, I… Continue Reading
Why is it necessary to eat animals?
There are a lot of people who believe that it’s not “humane” to eat meat. I get it. On the surface, it can seem that the most humane thing to do is to not eat meat. Avoiding meat can also appear to be the best for sustainability and the “cleanest” way to eat. I understand… Continue Reading
Sustainability Part 2 – The Game Changers of Small Ag
Written by: Mike Ritter If you missed Part 1, check it out here Russ Conser, former head of Shell Oil’s GameChanger program, met Peter Byck, professor at Arizona State University in 2013. Both were eyeballs deep in their own projects and neither knew each other prior to the being connected by a distant acquaintance. Byck was working… Continue Reading
Eating Paleo Can Save the World
Dear Outside Magazine, I’m hugely disappointed by your recent online article, “Eating Right Can Save the World”. Having a vegan author write a post bashing the paleo diet, and meat in general in defense of the environment, is a huge disconnect in my mind. There were so many inconsistencies embedded within the article, so many… Continue Reading
Hunting: How to begin if your Dad never taught you
One really important aspect of “being Paleo” is knowing where your food comes from. Understanding the right way to hunt is a critical skill for anyone looking to understand sustainable food systems. The following is an excerpt from my book, The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook, which is not only a cookbook, but a full guide to… Continue Reading
Kelp is the New Kale
I have to share with you how much I love eating kelp. You can buy it in the dehydrated form in many health food stores, but recently I got to try some raw kelp in a slaw and it was so much better. Kelp has been a staple for thousands of years in the northeast,… Continue Reading
5 Reasons to Switch to Pastured Pork
Robb and I have become great friends over the last few years, bonding over nutrition, sustainability, and sometimes, moonshine. I recently asked him what was going on with the Liberty Gardens section of the website and he admitted that he needed “someone” to take it on. Well, I’m going to give a stab at it.… Continue Reading
Paleo Aquaponics
Guest post written by: Conor O’Higgins Admit it: if you’ve been around the paleo community a while, you sometime dream about being in one of those idyllic hunter-gatherer-gardener societies of the past. The Inuit, Masai, Kuna, Hawai’ians – these traditional societies certainly had beautiful lifestyles and superior nutrition to modern industrial civilization. But my… Continue Reading