What I’ve Learned from the Leave No Trace Movement If you’ve been backpacking or hiking for any length of time, hopefully you’ve come across the Leave No Trace movement at some point, and use its principles for your own hikes. Certainly, leaving nothing in the wild that betrays that...
I’ve wanted to be a farmer since I was little. My mom read us the Little House on the Prairie books when I was growing up, and I would lay there at night dreaming of what I would do on my farm. We always had a big garden, and...
While reading an article on Monsanto fighting GMO labeling, I found the single best sentence in the comment section. -If Monsanto is so proud of their GMOs, why aren’t they willing to label them, it would be free advertising.- That says it all. When you are proud of something, you...
Why do people choose to eat bad food on purpose? It certainly isn’t income. Statisticts show that the more disposable your income the poorer your food choices become. Middle income families have the better diet because they can’t afford to eat out and, in actuality, it is much...
I’m sitting in the pick up line at my youngest child’s school, debating what to write for my first blog for the brand new Ethical Omnivore website. I want it to let you, as a reader, know who I am, and why EOM is important to me. I want...
Monsanto is such a strange company. I’ve never seen such a lack of ethical responsibility, no philanthropy, no conservation, restoration, dare say- humanity. Nope, just hard core profit, no apologies. Amazingly enough, such a huge company, with such huge influence and so many of it’s arms irrevocably tangled in...