Recipes & Dairy

For one of my last blog posts, I really wanted to talk more about food and how to make food in a sustainable fashion. You can always make and eat food sustainably, by using locally grown goods, but the website SustainableTable.org has taken this one step further. There are a plethora of delicious sounding recipes that I definitely want to sample.

One recipe in particular that sounds the most delicious is, Apple Honey Pie. I suddenly have the urge to bake and it doesn’t even look like that much of a challenge! I may not be able to cook, but I can definitely bake. J

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This site also has quite a large list of the problems with not eating sustainably. For example, they talk about dairy and cows and the issues in this industry. I’ve always had a place in my heart for cows, and after I watched a documentary about the dairy industry and Monsanto, I stopped drinking milk for a very long time and switched to soy milk because of all the awful things the cows go through and because the milk can sometimes be infected.

Although new technologies help cows produce more milk, this is unnatural and it’s killing the cows. Cows diets are being changed,  

“Pasture grasses are replaced with an unnatural diet high in fat and protein-rich grains to increase milk production, and to replace energy lost by producing such large quantities of milk. When fed large amounts of grains like soy and corn (often genetically engineered and heavily sprayed with pesticides),  this diet can cause cows to develop digestive problems and diseases that can lead to death. To keep animals alive, a continuous low dose of antibiotics, in conjunction with methods to relieve gas caused by lack of rumen use, is necessary” (SustainableTable).

After seeing all the information about what happens to cows, it’s hard to stomach what is going on. Unfortunately, I know that I will continue to use regular milk in my cereal because I share it with my roommates, or else I would just waste the soy milk by myself. Sort of a lose-lose situation.

SustainableTable’s solution to all of the issues they present? Simply eat in a sustainable fashion and you won’t have to worry about all the problems of factory-processed food.

Sincerely,

Julia