It’s really difficult to know where to start with this review of “Defending Beef” by Nicolette Hahn Niman (The Case for Sustainable Meat Production: The Manifesto of an Environmental Lawyer and Vegetarian Turned Cattle Rancher). After taking about 40 notes in the first 100 pages, I gave up due to the

It’s easy to be a fanboy and say everything Paleo is “super fantastic and will always be great no matter what!” But we need to keep it real. I liked this movie. I really did. I just didn’t love it. “The Magic Pill” is not “The One” movie I was

The full title of Judith D. Schwartz’s book is “Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth” … and of course a sub-sub-title: “Unmaking the deserts, rethinking climate change, bringing back biodiversity, and restoring nutrients to our food.” Well, it’s a complicated topic. The

Two city boys move to Iowa to learn about corn. Ok, it’s actually more interesting than that. Considering how much corn we Americans consume, you’d think we’d know a heck of a lot about it. But if you’re like me, you know it’s yellow and magically turns into popcorn… and

Aussie Damon Gameau goes from eating a healthy, no-sugar diet, to a 60-day sugar binge experiment. The average Aussie consumes 40 tsp. of sugar per day (yes, 40), so that was Damon’s goal. He could only eat “hidden” sugars found in foods that most people would find harmless or even healthy in