Crossing over from one year to the next in Japan traditionally involves a lot of food. The evening before the new year, you’re supposed to have toshi koshi soba (年越しそば), which translated literally means something like “soba noodles to cross over to the new year”.
This tradition started some time during the Edo period (1603-1867), […]
飼い主から言われた。おせち料理を食べたければ、お風呂に入りなさいと。
それは無いだろうと思いつつ、仕方なく入った。は〜
Eco-minded people around the world know that promoting destructive eating habits like consuming shark fin is a common problem in Asia. Reviews of shark fin restaurants (read: advertisers) in newspapers often appear with glowing praise for shark fin soup.
Fortunately, in recent years, the frequency with which these types of blatant promotion appear seems to […]
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, part of the United Nations) has released a report indicating that cattle are a more significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation industry.
I recently came across the text from a lecture that Michael Crichton gave a few years ago. Crichton’s discussion pertains to rationality, in particular as applied to the modern-day phenomenon of “science by public consensus”, which is of course not science at all, but mob rule by another name.
Crichton takes the unpopular and un-politically […]
Here’s a response to Dr. Giam from Bernard Harrison, former CEO of Wildlife Reserves Singapore (which runs the Singapore Zoo, Jurong Birdpark and the Night Safari), which was published only in the online edition of the Straits Times:
My friend Gunther Deichmann has recently published a new book of images from his travels around the world. In short…it’s stunning. I spend so much time looking through images, both my own and those that other people have taken, that it really takes a lot for an image to make me stand up and […]
This article appeared in the main newspaper in Singapore. The author, Dr. Giam Choo Hoo is well known in conservation circles as a proponent of wildlife consumption.
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