Just read an old post over at The Ethicurean about a talk given by Italian socialist food ethicist Carlo Petrini. I’m not going to weigh in on the larger issues covered by Mental Masala and Dairy Queen. I did want to comment on this idea:
Petrini used the metaphor of “metabolism” to explain the earth’s ecosystem: [...]
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metabolic metaphor?
Posted in diet, environment, evolution, soil on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Diet and Consciousness: An Example
Posted in Adrenaline, Dopamine, L-DOPA, Monoamine Oxidase, Noradrenaline, Serotonin, Tyramine, Tyrosine, diet on August 30, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Introduction and Overview
Before writing this post in the form in which it appears here, I set out to write an entry on tyramine, an exogenously created nervous system stimulant which plays a major role, I believe, in the sorry state of modern consciousness. But as I wrote, the story I was trying to tell got [...]
B12: Available or Not?
Posted in B12, DMT, Melatonin, diet, environment, vitamins on August 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Some time ago, I came across a website (I’ll post it later) which examined the widely held belief (among those who pay some attention to these things) that the vegan diet is prone to deficiencies in B12. The author claimed the vitamin was critically lacking in most foods found in the American food chain, including [...]
