Author: Kerry Trueman

Stories by Kerry Trueman

Kerry Trueman is the co-founder of EatingLiberally.org. You can follow her on Twitter.

Glenn Beck's Bizarre Outburst Against Meatless Mondays and Vegetarians

Cheap gas and cheap chuck remain American birthrights to loopy libertarians like Beck.
Posted on Oct 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Back Off 'No Impact Man': One Family's Yearlong Adventure Without Modern Conveniences Is Drawing Misguided Criticism

With the release of their movie, the family has gotten a lot of press -- some of it negative. Here's why the critics are wrong.
Posted on Sep 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Inflammatory New Book Attacking Local Food Movement Has One Grain of Truth Buried Under Heaps of Manure

"Just Food" is framed as the lament of a lapsed locavore who has been driven into the arms of Agribiz by food-mile militants who, according to him, number in the millions.
Posted on Aug 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Can the Enviro Movement Be Saved? That's the Hope of the New Film 'Earth Days'

It depicts the birth of a movement that started with so much promise but ran aground on the shoals of shallow self interest and callous greed.
Posted on Aug 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Peak-Oil Prophet James Howard Kunstler on Food, Fuel and Why He Became an Almost Vegan

Kunstler dishes on the collapse of our institutions, why "recovery" may never come and how to survive the fall of farming as we know it.
Posted on May 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Obamas Kick Off a Victory Garden Movement -- Who Will Join Them?

Now that there's a White House veggie garden, what's next? Schoolyards, retirement homes, vacant urban lots, governors' mansions ...
Posted on Mar 25, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

Here's How to Eat Sustainably on Your Way to the Inauguration

Get your calories from local, sustainably produced, predominantly plant-based foods instead of the fossil-fueled-fare from your standard diner.
Posted on Jan 17, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

Maybe Tom Vilsack Isn't the Agricultural Antichrist After All

Weighing the pros and cons of Obama's selection of GMO-lovin', bio-fuelish, feedlot-friendly Tom Vilsack for Secretary of Agriculture.
Posted on Dec 22, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

The Meltdown We Really Can't Afford

We are in danger of passing an extremely dangerous tipping point, with the frightening discovery of massive deposits of sub-sea methane in the Arctic.
Posted on Oct 10, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Welcome to the Food Revolution

The Slow Food Nation gathering promises to be a Woodstock for food lovers and enviros concerned with our food system.
Posted on Aug 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet

Dead Zone Diet: Why Fertilizers Are Taking Fish off the Menu

Fertilizer runoff from industrial agriculture and fossil-fuel use are causing catastrophic "dead zones" in our oceans.
Posted on Aug 18, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

What Does the NY Times Have Against Local Food and Green Living?

A handful of Times writers seem to be intent on undoing all the strides Americans are making to live greener.
Posted on Aug 13, 2008, Source: Eating Liberally

McDonald's Goes Feng Shui, But Fast Food Is Still Gross

While its décor has been overhauled to inspire good health, McDonald's menu is still larded with the same old artery-clogging animal products.
Posted on Feb 26, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

Who Needs Meat When You've Got Bugs?

We may find the idea of insects as livestock disgusting, but could a bug farm possibly be any more foul than our fetid feedlots?
Posted on Feb 14, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

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