Thoughts while I am digesting my shepherd's pie...

[Steven Clark Cunningham]

Hi, Sunday Philosophers!   

 

Thanks to all for a great discussion, and especially to Mike B. for hosting and Janet for proposing a really good book.  And it was lovely dining with you all – so glad that I could make it this time.

And speaking of food, mostly for Mike DiFilippo and our end of the table, the book I mentioned during our dinner discussion (but may have also mentioned in a prior meeting) is Jayne Buxton’s The Great Plant-Based Con: Why Eating a Plants-only Diet Won't Improve Your Health or Save the Planet.  It’s a little longish, at 544 pages, but the audiobook is also good. 

 

If you want a shorter book that is similar enough, here are three options, each ~200-250 pp:

 

• Rodgers, Diana; Wolf, Robb. Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat: Why Well-Raised Meat Is Good for You and Good for the Planet
• Schwarta, Judith. Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
• Niman, Nicolette Hahn. Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production

 

All four are about the relationship between diet and health and between diet and the environment.

 

And for an even less time investment, below are 4 videos that one could watch instead of (or, ideally, in addition to) reading.  As Mike and I were discussing, one thing I find very interesting about this topic is that it is a great example of two groups of people looking at the same situation in the same world with access to all the same data can yet arrive at wildly different conclusions.  And these videos exemplify such opposing views about diet choice and its relationship to health and to the environment:

 

• https://www.cowspiracy.com/

• (or, why everyone should be vegan for the environment)

• https://gamechangersmovie.com/

• (or, why everyone should be vegan for their health)

                                 --- versus ---

• Sacred Cow : The Nutritional, Environmental, and Ethical Case for Better Meat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGwaYkYLJLg)

• (or, why everyone should eat [better] meat for their health)

• https://kisstheground.com/support-the-film/
• https://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com

• (or, why everyone should eat [better] meat for the environment)

 

And if you only have twenty-two 1x minutes to spend, then just watch this Allan Savory video, regarding desertification: https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_fight_desertification_and_reverse_climate_change?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare.

 

See you next month!  I hope everyone likes Inventing a Christian America.

Steve

 

[Mike DiFilippo]

Thanks to Steve for garnering a fine group of materials for our consideration and I think nothing is more important for our individual health and that of the planet than what we eat. The world is what we eat, at least in part, as any flyover of the millions of acres of soy fields, almond groves and cattle ranches show clearly.

To add to Steve's excellent list here's a downer for me and many others but the food industry is not in it for our health...

https://www.amazon.com/Cheese-Trap-Breaking-Surprising-Addiction/dp/1455594687

Mike

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[Angie Boyter]

Darn you guys!! As if my To Be Read list was not long enough already, these books look really intriguing. I REALLY want to follow up !

(I'm sorry I did not hear your conversations last night.)

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