Getting to Less

Why Hope Jahren’s new ecological manifesto reminded me of a cookbook.

Jeremy B. Yoder
9 min readApr 23, 2020

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Living sustainably is, as they say, a growth industry. Any grocery store I choose to visit offers products made with organic-certified, ethically sourced ingredients. In Los Angeles, where I live, many now also have a section of the meat department given over to a diversifying array of plant-based replacements for ground…

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Jeremy B. Yoder

Evolutionary biologist, runner, gay. Writings in Slate, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the LA Review of Books, and the Stranger. https://jbyoder.org