Featured Venture: Syracuse VegFest

Mike.Delponte — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:49:35 -0400

Syracuse Vegfest brings the community together to celebrate cruelty-free, environmentally sustainable lifestyles by promoting socially responsible businesses, inspiring speakers, and above all, tasty vegetarian food. By hosting an annual event, this venture is breathing green life into the city of Syracuse.

On September 7th, Vegfest had vendors of vegetarian cuisine, locally grown organic foods, a variety of sustainable gift items, and activist-themed tabling. Held in the middle of a Syracuse park, the event featured an informational display about sustainable agriculture, a stage with speakers and musicians, a kid's activity area, and a place to adopt animals. read more »

Conscious Lifestyle recommends: the Omnivore's Dilemma

mattswriting — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:19:06 -0400

If Americans were to 'get Michael Pollan' about what they ate (or in other words—really think about what they consume), their eating habits would radically change. Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma is billed as "a natural history of four meals," but it is about much more than food. Pollan begins the book closely examining the omnipresence of corn in the modern American diet. And then he goes beyond the territory traversed by other books like Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, and as an investigative food journalist, Pollan does not only offer critiques of the unsustainable megaliths of industrial corn farming and the PETA-angering Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), but offers alternatives to these destructive systems. read more »