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Golden and Red Beets, Apple, Cara Cara and Blue Cheese Salad. If your mouth is watering, then Eat More Plants is the right site for you. Welcome to our first post! Come along as we seek the best information on healthier eating and living. We follow in the steps of many great news aggregate and social action ecology sites such as TreeHugger. The photo above comes from a favorite photography site of mine, FoodPornDaily, that takes a particular love for what’s on our plates.
Here at Eat More Plants, we follow in the calling of Michael Pollan to eat food, not too much, mostly plants. In his treatise In Defense of Food, Pollan says, “That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning…” Well, we agree. Yet, maybe instead of seven short words, the answer could be put in just three: eat more plants.
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“In 20 years chocolate will be like caviar. It will become so rare and so expensive that the average Joe just won’t be able to afford it.” Changing weather patterns are likely to seriously endanger cultivation of cocoa trees over the coming decades, possibly making chocolate as expensive as gold. Unlike many quickly producing and sustainable trees, cocoa takes several years to mature while depleting the soil. Meanwhile, the younger generation is unlikely to continue the replanting process as they head to the cities. Production is likely to drop off as the value of competing crops, including palm-oil for biofuels, continues to rise.
