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Written by Amy Cotler
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Excerpt from: The Locavore Way Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food, by Amy Cotler
We've shopped; now let's eat. Start with opening your fridge to salad greens fresh enough to dance into their bowl, pouring today's cream over strawberries so fragrant they barely made it home, or peeling thick winter carrots that stain your hands orange and taste astoundingly like carrots. These aren't the same sad greens, cardboard mega-berries, and sawdust carrots you'd find at the supermarket.
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Read more... [Eat Simply and Seasonally]
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Written by Laura Klein, Publisher
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Are you looking for Organic Turkey Recipes? Then we have a list of some amazingly delicious recipes that you are going to love to cook. We also have videos for most of these turkey recipes so you can see how to create these delicious recipes in your own kitchen. We also have yummy recipes for leftover turkey. If you are looking for information on how to select and buy an amazing natural and health turkey we cover that as well. Hope you enjoy our Turkey Recipes.
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Read more... [Turkey Recipes]
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Written by Laura Klein, Publisher
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Meat and dairy products are among the most important products to buy organic and grass-fed. They can get expensive, but as you discover the truth behind how they are raised, paying a little more for healthy meat won't be so shocking. And you just might enjoy it a little more and have a little more gratitude for it, and you might eat less of it, which is probably not such a bad thing. As a matter of fact I encourage you to eliminate meat at least one time per week. It is easier on your pocket book and helps reduce green house gasses.
Conventionally raised animals are kept under very stressful conditions, in pens, and injected with large quantities of hormones and antibiotics. They're fed an unhealthful diet of grains, junk foods and animal byproducts which turn them into meat eaters -akin, in some cases, to eating their own family members (a form of cannibalism). This can make them incredibly sick. Cattle are, by nature, herbivores or vegetarians, and their stomachs aren't designed to process meat and other junk foods.
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Read more... [Sourcing Healthy, Grass-Fed Meats]
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Written by Daniel Orr
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Wandering through a local farmers'market is a wonderful way to find locallygrown produce. It's a great environment for meeting local growers and learning about how they produce the goods we buy. The Midwest is lucky to have so many family farms working hard to bring to market natural meats, vegetables, cheese, and fruits. We in Indiana have even come up with our own term: Hoosierganic!
Shopping locally has many benefits. In simple terms, our food has fewer miles to travel than most supermarket munchies, thus lowering fossil fuel use and pollution output. Small farms don't have the need to use as many pesticides and other fertilizers and chemicals and often pride themselves on using none at all. Small farm-raised meat, dairy, and eggs are more likely to come from happy animals than that produced in huge quantities on industrial farms.
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Read more... [To Market, To Market]
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Written by Rod Rotondi
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Some people think raw food is a new thing - a cutting-edge way of eating, newly discovered by scientists or Hollywood trainers for optimal beauty and health. In fact, raw diets are not new. They are not the latest fad. Hominids have evolved over seven million years, and for the vast majority of that time we ate only raw, living foods.
The raw-food diet is about getting natural - about rediscovering the natural way for humans to eat. Because despite all the knowledge of humankind - all our science and technology - what will make us healthiest and happiest is to eat the foods that nature, in its wisdom, has provided. This original and longest-lasting human diet comprises primarily fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, vegetables, and greens. This is the way our ancestors ate until the relatively recent discovery of fire.
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Read more... [Raw Foods In A Nutshell (Raw, Unroasted)]
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