"They’re eating me out of house and home!" Idioms, as you know, are shorthand codes for more complex ideas. As I read Lisa Kemmerer’s latest offering, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics & Dietary Choice, I kept returning to that idiomatic gluttonous guest or the self-centered roommate who mindlessly consumes such a vast quantity of our household resources that we’re headed for ruin. Now consider what happens when that gluttonous dweller is Homo sapiens and the “house and home” is our planet.
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