In a recent poll of active duty military, more than half of those surveyed said they believed plant-based foods provide more energy than their animal-derived counterparts. Congress has formally ordered the Defense Logistics Agency to look into a vegan option for its field rations.
You leave a plant by the window, and the next day its leafy little tendrils are reaching through the venetian blinds, grasping for sunlight with what looks like theatrical desperation. How? HOW?! Easy there, Plant-Panic-Person®. We figured it out. Well, science figured it out. We're just passing the news along.
Potatoes? Europe was not a fan of this weird, dirt-colored knob when it first arrived from Peru. So the French showily planted acres of spuds outside Paris, placing armed guards around the plots. As expected, attentive thieves came in and stole every potato they could lay their hands on; right out from under the secret grins of the phony guards. Voila!
As kale’s ticker-tape parade nears its end, the briefly-beloved leaf prepares to trudge sadly back to its old job as the inedible garnish used to liven-up the crushed ice in Pizza Hut’s® salad bar. Poor kale. Yes, it remains a superfood.
GABA may sound like preschool gibberish — “GABA-GABA-GABA!” (etc) — but GABA is of course short for Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid. This is the neurotransmitter whose job it is to calm your brain. How? If your skull is a night club, GABA is the bouncer who keeps the loudmouthed jerks out on the sidewalk. Neurally speaking.
Once veganism was considered a radical, almost bizarre lifestyle. Today it is the subject of reasoned debate, nutritional analysis, and peer-reviewed scholarly papers. Add to all that our current age of wall-to-wall visual documentation—endless clips of animals acting curiously, happily human when freed from bondage, or reunited with loved ones. Here we have an opportunity for reflection. And more.
