Category: Food
Abundance Fantasies: Exaggeration Cards
August 30, 2013Exaggeration cards are picture postcards depicting enormously oversized fruits, vegetables and livestock. First appearing in Fresno in 1905 the cards quickly struck a chord throughout the western United States. These “tall-tale postcards” became especially prevalent in small town rural communities hoping to forge an identity…
Growth Antagonists: Delta Cells
August 13, 2013Abundance Fantasies: Baby Burrito
July 15, 2013Abundance Fantasies: Cornucopia
June 6, 2013Force-Feeding Milk
June 2, 2013PARs in the Womb
May 28, 2013The Incredible Shrinking Man is interested to know what consequences can be expected for human height if nutrition availability after birth doesn’t match predictions by the fetus on the basis of its prenatal environment. During pre-birth development fetuses prepare for the world outside by using the…
Micro-Livestock: Guinea Pig
May 21, 2013The 1991 OFA report ‘Microlivestock: Little-known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future’ introduces several alternative small animals for domestication and meat and dairy production. Small animals are easier to breed and keep, and are a quick way of supplementing a diet, especially in less…
The Raw Tom Outrage
January 20, 2013One Bean Coffee
December 30, 2012Deflating the Food Bubble
October 15, 2012Abundance Fantasies: Corn Cult
July 27, 2012Global Human Biomass
June 22, 2012TEDx Lecture on Shrinking
June 10, 2012D.I.Y. Shrink List.
April 7, 2012Raspberry Explosion
April 1, 2012Benito’s Rodents
February 20, 2012Poultry/House
February 11, 2012High on Cheese
January 29, 2012Krill Adaptations
January 28, 2012Because environments vary with both predictable patterns and with unpredictable but recurring events, ecologists have long been interested in the ecological adaptations that organisms use to survive periods in which the environment may be exceptionally harsh. One of the most interesting adaptations observed in the…