GREEN LIVING, GREEN TRAVELING
Posted in Birds, Endangered species, Fish, Fish, Food, Livestock, Organic, Wildlife on Sep 2nd, 2010
Readers – I just received an email from Cindy Cullen at the Culinary Arts College, asking if I would post a link to their article How Food Affects Your Brain: 10 Facts We Now Know.” Some interesting information in the post, so I’m passing it along. I need to add a couple of things, though, [...]
Posted in Fast food, Food, Health, Health effects of eating meat, High fat foods on Aug 31st, 2010
Happy meal helps kids, says the fast-food box. Is that so? Not according to recent medical studies. Kids whose homes or schools are near a fast-food restaurant are more likely to be obese, according to a 2010 study in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. Not surprising, given that most kids’ meals marketed by national [...]
This post now on Google News I’ve seen various studies over the years about the benefits of dark chocolate, but none as convincing as this one. In an article published yesterday in the European Heart Journal, German scientists report a study that tracked nearly 20,000 people over a period of 8 years. The researchers found [...]
Posted in Food, Health, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel) on Nov 26th, 2009
Tis the season to eat pecan pies, Christmas cookies, cheese sticks, and other festive goodies. Right? Just for a month or so. Then we’ll all go on diets! Diet books’ highest sales are right after the holidays. I’ve already gained a couple of pounds and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet! But after reading this study [...]
Posted in Classroom Critters and The Scientific Method, Food, Health, Sustainable Living, Sustainable choices for your home, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Wildlife on Nov 25th, 2009
Readers, I like to publish this riveting article by animal-rights activist Jim Mason every Thanksgiving. It’s in honor of the millions of turkeys that will be consumed during the coming week. After reading it, you may decide to eat something else! Many thanks to my friend Jim, co-author of the landmark book Animal Factories for [...]
Posted in Animal welfare / animal rights, Book review, Classroom Critters and The Scientific Method, Environmental footprint, Food, Health, Livestock, Sustainable Living, Sustainable choices for your home, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Wildlife on Nov 23rd, 2009
A book review by Sally Kneidel, PhD http://sallykneidel.com As a biologist and co-author of two books about the meat industry, I was asked by Jonathan Safran Foer’s publicist to review Foer’s new non-fiction book Eating Animals. I confess I didn’t want to read it, because the topic can be distressing. But I’m glad I did. [...]
Posted in Environmental footprint, Food, Going Green (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Health, Sustainable Living, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel), Wildlife, Wildlife habitat, Wildlife survival on Nov 2nd, 2009
All photos and text by Sally Kneidel, PhD, of sallykneidel.com and veggierevolution.blogspot.com Photo by Sally Kneidel, PhD I read an article today that blew my socks off – it may be the most significant article I’ve ever read. It’s online and in the Nov/Dec 2009 print issue of Worldwatch, a publication of Worldwatch Institute – [...]
Posted in Food, Sustainable Living, Sustainable choices for your home, Veggie Revolution (co-authored with Sadie Kneidel) on Oct 17th, 2009
Story by Sally Kneidel, PhD, of sallykneidel.com The New York Times reported on October 11 that eating ground beef is still risky. Well, yes, but what’s new about that? Of course it’s still risky. Every now and then the media decide to write up something about the hazards of beef as though it were new, [...]
Posted in Africa, Eco-travel, Environmental footprint, Food, South Africa, Sustainable Living on Jul 26th, 2009
African village: we did a homestay in the Venda village of Hamakuya in South Africa, sleeping in a round hut of mud and cow dung, and eating caterpillars. It was one of the best times of my life. We learned that people can live with joy on very very little.
Posted in Eco-travel, Food, Sustainable Living, Wildlife behavior on May 25th, 2009
Hi readers! If you’ve been reading Veggie Revolution blog, this new blog will be more of the same, but expanded. I started this new blog on WordPress because I want to have multiple pages, which is possible with WordPress but not Blogger. I’ll still be posting on http://veggierevolution.blogspot.com until at least mid-July, while this [...]
