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Offerings like this, by the restaurant of your choice, are not evidence that we're winning the war to end famine. They are, in fact, the problem.
By Tom Lewis,

It's a successful restaurant in a successful national chain of restaurants. All day, every day, people troop in, sit down and salivate over book-length menus that, had they been placed before the guests of the Sun King at his court in Versailles, would have caused them to say: "Isn't this a little over the top?

They drink, they nosh, they order, they eat, they cram dessert down on top of everything, and then they waddle off, oblivious to the battle zone a few feet away from them, on the other side of the swinging doors to the kitchen, the central front...
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The Food Zone

Perhaps what is really wrong with people is the food they have been eating. Think about the karma wrought through these insanely horrible slaughter houses might be backfiring on the peoples of the earth. Just maybe, we will learn the hard way, but I...

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You have it in a nutshell Tom. Half of the world eats too well and the other half doesn't or is starving! I have decided to cut back 70% in my poultry, seafood and when I do eat meat, that also. Fruits and vegetables and lots of soup is in my immediate...

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