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Tag Archives: primal

What Paleo Means to Me (a non-dogmatic view)

  May 12, 2013 - 7:00 am | Food, Health & Wellness, Life & Culture
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Paleo? You may be asking… Do you live on bacon and kale and CrossFitting* in your Vibram Five Fingers**? Paleo has been blowing up lately and as a result there’s a lot of weird ideas about what it is, and a lot of people getting really dogmatic about it. For me,… Read on →

Tagged community, critical thought, dogma, food politics, paleo, primal

Link: Interpretive Paleo and Paleo Absolutism

  November 25, 2012 - 11:33 am | Food
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Just Eat Real Food’s Facebook post Earlier this week on Facebook, Just Eat Real Food cited a great post by the eloquent Cave Girl Eats about the problems of dogma, or “rigid set[s] of rules” governing the choices in our individual quests for wellness, illustrating how the paleo community is… Read on →

Tagged dogma, paleo, primal

Should Whole Foods “Close All Its Meat Counters”? (No.)

  October 6, 2012 - 9:00 pm | Food, Life & Culture
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An open letter to James McWilliams and anyone who has signed or is considering signing the petition asking Whole Foods to “close all its meat counters”: You say you care about the humane treatment of animals. Then why not spend your time going after the factory farms, or Confined Animal… Read on →

Tagged crap-food, critical thought, food politics, paleo, primal

Link: “moving from a ‘paleo diet’ to a ‘paleo template’”

  September 20, 2012 - 5:23 pm | Food
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I’ve been learning about and following (more or less, off and on) a paleo or primal diet/lifestyle for several years now. These ideas have been gathering steam lately, so that at least the term “paleo” is something that many people have heard of. With the strengthening of and adherence to… Read on →

Tagged dogma, paleo, primal
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