Triggering Passages:
“…but if people do not take into account the “gastronomic” side of things, they make the same mistake, in reverse, as gastronomes make when they talk about food without knowing where it comes from, confining themselves to learned disquisitions on taste. In other words, I felt the lack of an all-embracing vision of reality, and it seemed to me that people were making more or less the same mistake as the reductions and the overspecialists. To put it plainly: a gastronome who has no environmental sensibility is a fool; but an ecologist who has no gastronomic sensibility is a sad figure, unable to understand the cultures in which he wants to work. What we need, then, is eco-gastronomy.”
Found in: Slow Food Nation: Why our food should be Good, Clean and Fair
Carlo Petrini

New Media Content:
“Most Americans believe that climate change is real, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse told his colleagues in Congress on Wednesday (April 5). Seventy percent of people in the United States say they believe global warming is happening, said Whitehouse, D-R.I., as he reviewed data from interactive charts recently released by Yale University scientists. However, a smaller percentage — 53 percent — think that global warming is caused mostly by humans, Whitehouse said.”
Found in: Most Americans Believe in Climate Change, Lawmaker Tells Senate
Laura Gegge  – April 7, 2017

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