We live an age of neo-puritanism, when the John Knoxes, Gerard Winstanleys and Lodowicke Muggletons of our day preach doom and destruction, repentance or death, much as their predecessors did in the 15th and 16th centuries. The tone and nature of their utterances is scarcely distinguishable. Thou shall not eat meat. Thou shalt not drink. […]

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Perhaps change should start with our eating habits; and by habits I don’t mean diet. Some years ago I consulted a dietary specialist on my own dietary habits. He told me to think of myself as a unique cocktail of chemicals, as individual as my iris or fingerprints. And when I ate or drank, I […]

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