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Pain Free Farming Through Genetic Engineering? Yeech.
By
Gus diZerega
Modern factory farms may soon be raising animals that are “pain free,” and so not able to suffer physically from the abominable conditions under which they live. So says a story in this week’s New Scientist, my favorite science magazine. (It is not up on the web yet, but a similar older one is.) Adam…
The Nature of Myth – And More Good Stuff by Robert Bringhurst
By
Gus diZerega
Pagan cultures have always made use of two sources of knowledge about the world, which Karen Armstrong defined in her book The Battle for God as mythos and logos. Modern societies, including most modern religion, limits itself to one, logos. We need both.
Sebastopol’s Farmers Markets
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Gus diZerega
I just returned from our Sunday Farmers’ Market, which as summer rolls towards its end has become a feast for they eyes as well as the body. Huge mounds of organic tomatoes, squash, beans, onions, broccoli, peaches, spinach, greens and peppers grace the farmers’ displays. (If you have never smelled a freshly picked pepper you…
Starhawk and Van Jones
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Gus diZerega
Starhawk tells it like it is and while it’s too late to save Van Jones’ position because of Obama’s increasingly apparent lack of character, it’s not too late to tell this so-far failure of a leader that he made a mistake and needs to start taking his supporters as seriously as the people who won’t…
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