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The Ethics of Meat 24 Apr 2012 | 05:50 am
Build topsoil. Promote biodiversity. Treat all beings with dignity. Promote food security for the world's poor. Vegetarians often claim their diet uniquely manifests such principles. Their values are ...
The Homo Sapiens Diet: Parts 1 and 2 27 Feb 2012 | 08:16 am
Who are we? It's an old question, often a metaphysical question, but, at this moment, I'm concerned with who we are physically. Maybe the question seemed too absurd to ask for classical philosophers l...
Go North, Young Man: An American Chef Goes to Fäviken and Jamtland 22 Dec 2011 | 01:22 pm
On August 29th, I landed in Stockholm and caught the midnight train to Järpen. I'd come from the heat of summer in Tuscany and Rome. When I stepped off the train in Järpen, I stepped into another seas...
My Kind of Kosher 25 Oct 2011 | 02:32 pm
Yesterday, I was at the engagement party of one of my best friends. He's Jewish. So is his fiancée. They aren't religious. There were delicious pork buns. A few old friends heard about my new work as ...
Cops and Troops, Stand With the 99% 18 Oct 2011 | 05:19 pm
The revolution has begun. If you haven't noticed, it's time you noticed. Those in power have certainly noticed. They're worried as hell. And they should be. The movement afoot in the United States and...
On Mourning Steve Jobs 8 Oct 2011 | 03:09 am
It is sad that Steve Jobs died at 56. For me, it's sad mostly because pancreatic cancer was almost non-existent before industrialism. It is now increasingly common, and could strike any of us. It is s...
A Tale of Two Butchers 14 Sep 2011 | 10:41 pm
Tuscany, particularly the Chianti region bordered roughly by Florence to the north and Siena to the south, is a place, like so many others, rich in paradox. On the one hand, it is the cradle of the R...
Little Things I Love About Italy 3 Nov 2010 | 08:12 am
I have been in Tuscany for four weeks. This is my first blog post. This is not because I have not been having interesting or noteworthy experiences. On the contrary, I've had too many, and too little ...
To Be More Like Jesus 4 Sep 2010 | 09:03 am
If you think Jesus loves you, he probably doesn't even like you. Or wouldn't, if he were alive. Jesus wouldn't like any of us who claim to oppose systems of oppression but are unwilling to accept pers...
For Palestine 19 Aug 2010 | 01:31 pm
It's time for every Jew with a conscience to openly and unequivocally condemn and meaningfully oppose the brutal and systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Zionism is a perversion of all that is de...
