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Pork, The Other Red Meat (TM)

May 5, 2009

I’m picky enough about pork that I’ve by and large stopped eating it. The only pork available in my market is indoor raised, bland, and flabby. It has a grayish color, too, or maybe a sort of dirty white or light dusty pink. In my quest to find the secrets to truly outstanding, clean, humanely [...]

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McWilliams Responds to Pork Fooforaw

April 15, 2009

If you enjoy thought provoking discussions about food – the good, bad, and the ugly – but haven’t been reading The Atlantic’s Food section of late, take a gander. I was impressed in particular with their inviting James McWilliams to respond to those who have criticized his recent New York Times Op-Ed, in which he [...]

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Don’t Eat That Pork: Trichy Words From The Prof

April 11, 2009

The New York Times featured an Op-Ed entitled “Free-Range Trichinosis” from a history professor in Austin, Texas, James E. McWilliams. I initially found this article hard to respond to because I felt the author said a lot without saying anything at all. The more I considered it, the more I understood his real message and [...]

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