Thursday, November 20, 2014

Be a vegiteriman and save the planet

If you remember your high school biology, you might remember the 10% rule. It says a cow must eat one hundred pounds of grass to gain ten pounds of flesh, the other ninety percent is given off as heat, carbon dioxide and waste. So it makes good accounting sense to eat the plants instead of the cow. Now there is more data on this. Nature has a new paper out on this issue. Here is a write up by RDF. Go for the lowest point on the food web to save the world.
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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Recipes to follow

I've been cooking and photographing like crazy, and as I am processing the data for the blog, here are two Hufpost articles to whet your appetite. grains and seeds;
Vman