Joel Salatin on the Sacredness of Food

Some transcript from Joel’s TEDx speech:

“We have this very mechanistic view in our Greco, Roman, Western, Reductionist, linear, fragmented, compartmentalized, disconnected, democratized, individualized, parts-oriented, thought process we never think about the whole.”

“We’ve never had a sales plan or a marketing target. We’ve never had a benchmark that we’re hitting. In fact, we’ve now [...]

Thanks to All the Farmers!!!

As of 3:30pm on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, Food Inc. has had a response of 963 people that agree with their statement: “Let’s thank all the farmers for our Thanksgiving meals!” on their Facebook page (and this is only after being up for 46 minutes!). Pretty nice!

Here’s Food, Inc., FB page [...]

A Life Without Money

I just got done with “The Moneyless Man – a year of freeconomic living” by Mark Boyle. After thinking that the book would mainly be about the skills of self-reliance that Mark would learn and implement in his year I was quite surprised to be led in a different direction.

Actually, one of [...]

‘The Story of Food’

A nice little video by USC Canada on how our food has changed for the worse over the last 50 years:

You can see the original at YouTube here.

Do We Really Need the News?

There are 2 camps of people when it comes to being a “consumer” of news: the “Want To Know About Everything And Be Emotionally Involved” and the “I Could Care Less; Where’s My Beer?”. In actuality, there’s more like a continuum of people through these 2 extremes, with most people falling somewhere in [...]

Are You Seeking the Good Life?

Are you seeking “The Good Life”? Living a good life is very different to everyone. But, in general, we can say that a good life involves a lot less stress than currently pervades modern society. Don’t you agree? No matter if you’re ideal is a townhouse in Manhattan, a houseboat on [...]