No two books have changed my life quite so much as, first, Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, and a year later, The Qur’an. I picked up the former at Heathrow Airport, and by the time my flight landed I had decided to stop eating meat. My decision wasn’t based on …
There is a hadith in Sahih Muslim according to which the Prophet ﷺ said: “God has mandated excellence (ihsan) for all things. So if you kill, do so with excellence, and if you slaughter an animal, do so with excellence; sharpen your blade, and put the animal at ease.” The hadith are considered, like the …
Food Justice is communities exercising their right to grow, sell and eat healthy food. Healthy food is fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate and grown locally with care for the well-being of the land, workers and animals. People practicing food justice leads to a strong local food system, self-reliant communities and a healthy environment. (Just Food) Food …
Two weeks ago was opening day of archery season for Whitetail deer in New Hampshire. For a hunter the nine months between seasons seems like an eternity. In the off-season there are plenty of activities that occupy your time, however, nothing is like trying harvest a deer with your bow. Nothing! I look at each …
Krystina sat down with Rhamis Kent, a Permaculture consultant who travels all over the Middle East and North Africa advising governments and organizations on how they can engage in ecosystem restoration in order to increase biodiversity and sustain plant, animal, and human life. In this interview, they discuss his recent article entitled “Restoring the Amanah Through …
Here are a few reflections on a doe I shot in October during the 2012 New Hampshire archery season. When I speak to people about bow hunting many are surprised to learn that my arrows almost always travel cleanly through the deer and exit unobstructed. This is known as a “pass-through” to hunters, and is …
Asiila Imani is a mother, midwife, doula, and writer who home schools and teaches language arts to children in her community. For the past five years she’s been trying her hand at backyard gardening, getting involved with community gardening as well as permaculture. Two years ago she began raising chickens out back of her house. …
We had a chance to pose a few questions to Munir Ravalia, a dentist, committee member at the Kingston Mosque, and an avid beekeeper, about the UK’s Muslim Beekeeping Project. BH: I’ve read that one of the inspirations for the beekeeping project was the threat of colony collapse. Could you briefly explain this issue and why Muslims …
Honey for What Ails You: Interview with Munir Ravalia of the Muslim Beekeeping Project Read More »
Halal is what halal is, but striving towards complementing that, and not separating it from the tayyeb aspect, that’s the direction we want to push people in… Ramadan Mubarak! Krystina interviews Imam Khalid Latif, co-founder of Manhattan’s Honest Chops, a halal butcher shop providing hand-slaughtered, ethically raised pastured beef and chicken to the NYC community. …
Talking Chop: An Interview with Imam Khalid Latif Read More »
What is “beet-fed beef?” Last month, during a stretch of below-zero nights, some of our root vegetables froze. Our space heater broke, and the temperature in the storage area dropped into the low 20’s. About a dozen sacks of carrots & beets froze solid. We began feeding the frozen carrots & beets to our cows. …