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low stress food

Low Stress Food Tastes Better

May 1, 2009

When a tree suffers stress, you can see it in its rings. Whether drought, disease, or fire, times of stress are permanently etched and visible to the naked eye. Have you ever thought to think the same might happen to our food? It does. Stress can permanently, and negatively, influence the taste and texture of [...]

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Grass-Fed Beef & Droughts Don’t Mix

November 9, 2008

A lot of people have asked me why grass-fed (what I like to call grass-only) beef is more expensive, given that the ranchers / graziers don’t have to give the cattle growth hormones or preventative antibiotics to improve their, er, ability to get big fast. Well, that’s one of the points, grass-only beef takes longer [...]

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Is Stress Edible?

November 17, 2007

This is one of the most fascinating and powerful arguments I’ve ever heard about why we need to pay close attention to the food we eat. Stephanie Daniel and Dr. Joon Yun, authors of a book called Low Stress Food, argue that one key reason we humans feel stressed is because we literally injest stress [...]

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