Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was a very inspiring book about a family who ate their own produce or other locally-grown produce for an entire year. This may sound a little extreme to some, but it is possible. And even if we are not willing...
I found the last couple of chapters in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle to be very enlightening. She spends some time analyzing the issue of childhood obesity and how nowadays with all the junk in the food industry, we must raise our kids to be knowledgeable...
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Dylan
This book was great to read especially since our blog was about organic food. It provides useful information about food production in America that really demonstrate how eating organic is a good choice to make. Some facts about conventional food given...
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We already know that most of the ingredients in the food we eat comes from corn, and one form it may come in is high fructose corn syrup. Very similar to table sugar, it used as a sweetener in many of the things we eat, but research shows that...
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I (being the slow reader that I am), just completed chapters 11-15 of the assigned book and found a number of things very interesting. Here are just a few:
In 1948 farmers were using about 50 million pounds of pesticides. In 200, they were using 1 billion...