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What to eat?

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I continually find myself in a personal struggle as to whether I should maintain a vegetarian lifestyle or consume meat. I switched to vegetarianism for many years after first learning about the practices that the industrial meat industry participates in.  Michael Carolan touches on many of these points, which ignites my internal debate about returning to a diet void of… Read more »

Can Cuba’s agro-ecological ‘miracle’ be exported?

Much has been written about Cuba’s shift from industrialized to organic farming after the fall of the Soviet Block in 1989.  During this Special Period, with no ability to import equipment or fertilizer, Cuba installed community gardens throughout its urban areas, and rural communities returned to the ‘ways of the campesino’ (Cuba: The Accidental Revolution, 2007). As the world considers… Read more »