Previously in this space, Alicia Kennedy’s book No Meat Required was offered for your consideration.
Edibles & Potables: Alicia Kennedy’s book “No Meat Required”
During the past few months, Kennedy has discussed two books that I intend to read when time permits. The first is Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, by Dan Saladino.
Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these—rice, wheat, and corn—now provide fifty percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still:
The source of much of the world’s food—seeds—is mostly in the control of just four corporations. Ninety-five percent of milk consumed in the United States comes from a single breed of cow. Half...
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