Call it flexitarianism, conscious meat consumption, or low meat eating, lots of people are saving the flesh for special occasions and adopting a veg-centric diet. If you’ve been thinking about going vegetarian or vegan for the planet, but you really like meat and think you’ll miss it, or you’re worried that your nutrition will suffer, or you don’t want to subject your entire family to an extreme change, I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be black and white.

On a personal note, I’ve been eating about 85% veg for a few years now and it works for …

Tags: almost vegetarian , grass-fed meat , meat consumption , meat industry , the green plate , vegetarian meal plans

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As we mentioned earlier this week, Seafood Watch has given the green light to the very first farmed salmon – as long as it’s Coho that was farmed in a closed system in the US. To celebrate, here’s a rustic, simple, and healthy recipe using salmon. Think French bistro and serve with a red Rhone.

The walnut oil in the dressing is a nice (and expensive) Frenchy touch. If you don’t want to spring for it, simply replace it with an equal amount of olive oil.

You can also …

Tags: easy fish recipes , easy seafood recipes , healthy fish recipes , salmon recipes , sustainable seafood recipes , wild salmon recipes

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We’ve been trolling around for news and netted some doozies. From fish oil, to updated Seafood Watch recommendations, here’s a sampler platter of recent food news morsels.

Restaurant Greenwashers: We are watching you

Developed by intrepid journalist Charles Clover, who brought us the film End of the Line, Fish to Fork is a spanking new online rating system and interactive website that rates restaurants according to their seafood sourcing policies.

You may be surprised by what you find. There’s a lot of assuming going …

Tags: fish oil supplements , overfishing , pollock fish , sustainable fish , sustainable fishing , sustainable seafood

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When cauliflower is in season, as it is this time of year, it’s revelatory. Cruciferous vegetables like cauliflower and broccoli are better when the weather turns chilly because the cold makes them sweeter and more deeply flavored.

People who think broccoli and cauliflower are bitter and stinky may have only eaten them out of season. Sitting on the grocery store shelf doesn’t help these healthful vegetables any, either.

I have a challenge for you: if you think you don’t care for either of these vegetables, go to your local farmers’ market in winter …

Tags: pureed vegetable soups , soups from the farmers market , vegetarian soup recipes , winter soups

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Haiti is a nation of farmers. Though only about a third of the mountainous country is suitable for farming and the countryside is heavily deforested and losing topsoil, somewhere between 66 and 75% of Haitians are engaged in agriculture.

Marginal land and periodic crop damaging droughts and floods combined with ever-rising food prices and the lowest per capita income in the Western Hemisphere means that hunger for the people of Haiti was part of everyday life even before the earthquake.

In mid-2008, Haitians rioted to protest food prices …

Tags: Agricultural development , Agricultural Sustainability , food insecurity , Haiti food , Haiti poverty , Haiti Relief , Help Haiti

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I love risotto, pasta, bread. You name it. I’m a carb fanatic.

But whenever I eat a big plate of pasta or a huge bowl of white rice, I don’t necessarily feel like I’ve done my body good. Enter whole grain risottos made with complete, protein-rich less processed grains like farro.

Barley works nicely here, too. Prepare these grains like risotto (by adding warm broth gradually as you cook them) and you get a wonderful comforting dish like risotto. A little less creamy perhaps, but full of satisfying, grainy goodness, and nutrient-rich besides. …

Tags: alternative grains , creative risottos , rice and beans , vegetarian risotto , vegetarian whole grain recipes , whole grain risotto

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An extra hearty vegetarian (or not) soup that can serve as a one-dish meal, Ribollita is Italian peasant food. It’s a great way to use up stale bread and it provides plenty of nutrient-rich leafy greens. Ribollita is rich and satisfying and the beans provide all the protein you need.

It’s a two-step process, but well worth it. I like to cook dried beans from scratch, but if there was ever a recipe in which you could use canned beans without compromising the end dish, this is it.

Ribollita

Serves 6

1/2 …

Tags: hearty soup recipes , soups with beans , soups with greens , vegetarian soups

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Called “the Inconvenient Truth” for the oceans, The End of the Line asks viewers to imagine a world without fish and then proceeds to show them exactly how commercial fisheries are decimating hundreds of wild species that we take for granted as food.

This is the film for people who don’t respond to dry, measured environmental messaging focusing on intangible future effects of current fishing practices. This film uses powerful footage and dramatic music to punch the viewer where it hurts: in the stomach.

The film asks viewers: if you …

Tags: bycatch , fish facts , fish stocks , fisheries management , marine ecology , ocean ecosystem , ocean seafood , overfishing , sustainable fish , sustainable fisheries , sustainable seafood , Ted Danson , trawling

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You’ve heard it before: a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. If people are fat, it’s their own fault for eating too much.

These words are usually spouted by PR hacks for the corn refiner’s association – or the dietitians paid by them. They may not, as it turns out, be true.

We finally have the smoking corn cob, as it were: the study processed-food foes have been waiting for, indicating that high fructose corn syrup may be the cause of the huge …

Tags: corn subsidies , food additives , food manufacturing , health risks of soda , health risks of sugar , healthy diet , high fructose corn syrup facts , processed foods , the green plate

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