I was speaking with some friends earlier today about the decline in demand for plant-based meat, e.g., Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat. They suggested that perhaps these companies have insufficient PR, but I countered that the intensely negatively PR funded …
Category: Sustainability
Reacting to Bad Grammar
As suggested by the cartoon here, some of us have brains that go ping! whenever we encounter a grammatical mistake. I’m not sure this is good for our mental health, but for us, “just between you and I” is impossible …
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Self-Sufficiency
If by “they” you mean grocery stores, I suppose you have a point, though growing all the dozens of kinds of food you want in your diet sounds like quite a task. For example, do you like coffee in the …
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Problems with Meat
No one denies that meat tastes (and smells) good. Anyone who will tell you, for instance, that frying bacon doesn’t smell incredibly good is lying. The problems are a) bacon is terrible for your health, b) animal husbandry is ruining …
Should This Fellow Join the Catholic Church?
We Americans live our lives surrounded by constant reminders of the hypocrisy of the far right wing “Christians,” and incidents like a change in papal leadership serve to heighten our awareness of all this.
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Towards a Progressive Agenda
Yes, at left is the progressive agenda that America needs, but it hardly fits in with the nation’s zeitgeist one-quarter of the way through the 21st Century, does it? We’re hoping that all the garbage magically disappears, and we can …
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Yes, the Planet Got Destroyed, But . . . . .
Incredibly, there are wealthy people all around the country, perhaps even the globe, who think like the young man speaking in the cartoon here. It’s supposed to be funny, and it would be, if it didn’t describe a tragic and …
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Growing Your Own Food
You have to be paranoid beyond measure to believe that they (whoever they are) want you to be dependent on grocery stores. That said, the only problem associated with learning how to grow your own food is that, because our …
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The Audience for PBS
Re: the discussion at left, it’s more than a stupid question; it’s outrageously condescending. Are you trying to tell me that the coal miner and his family isn’t interested in the content presented on PBS? Nature, current events, history, art, …
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Legacy Media Must Die?
Journalism is the only profession that’s explicitly mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. It seems that the Founding Fathers believed that protecting the free press was a pretty good idea. When the richest man on Earth says, “legacy media must die,” …
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