After two years of caring for meat chickens and falling in love with the birds only for them to be slaughtered, I decided to buy my own chickens. At 11 years old, I started my first of many entrepreneurial ventures to save money for my own flock of layer breeds. Pretty soon, I proudl...
I added it to my itinerary because so many of my friends told me it was their favourite place in Japan and I came away having fallen head over heels in love with it, too. This lovely city on the coast is one of the more chilled-out spots in the country, where you can take things...
Most cows raised in the U.S. are Angus, Hereford and Shorthorn. "Certified Angus Beef" is a marketing term, but an effective one; it applies to most of the beef in U.S. stores [sources: Miller, The Nibble]. A cow's diet has a major role in the flavor of beef. In the U.S...
When I say “grain,” I am talking about one of many domesticated grasses in the gramineae family. This includes staples such as wheat, rye, oats, barley, millet, rice, and sorghum. These plants are derivatives or descendants from wild grasses that have been managed and bred for 2,000–...
Becoming vegan is one step on a long journey. Don’t look at it as some kind of final border to cross. There are many more steps to take after that transition. Restoring Conscious Choice I’m sure it’s no secret to you that the foods you see people eating on TV shows and in movi...
21 When a butcher brings a sheep into the monastery, countless monks will attempt to save the animal’s life, and they are rightly praised for their compassion in lay society, yet they do not care what they kill when drinking water. Moreover, they do not care about the many creatures ...
The old sacred cows no longer created the collective consciousness, the effervescence they once did, nor did they motivate a return to the religious consensus that had unified French society before the French Revolution. Interestingly for Durkheim, anomie and violence are related, but atypically when...
It turns out that some cows are the Teslas and others are gas guzzlers. Just like efficient climate friendly cars there are climate friendly cows producing more milk and/or meat per unit of Green House Gases than the inefficient models. Just make the right choices in transportation and in ...
Nowadays dietary habits in many countries are disconnected from the locally available resources and land. Current diets harm ecosystems and people’s health. (Re-)regionalising food systems and aligning diets with planetary boundaries can be one way to reconnect people to the food that they eat. ...
Furthermore, some consumers are more willing to pay for on-farm slaughtered beef products [22]. In fact, image quality is a broad concept since almost all the extrinsic attributes can constitute the holistic image of a product. In other words, consumer perception of food quality at the time...