Weekend Reading What Does a Femivore Eat? |

I personally love Mother Nature Network.  The Robin Shreeves blog is funny and true.  If I ever put a spot on this web of favorites sites and postings, it will be on the top spot there.  Unfortunately, I'm too busy reading, writing and raising children to put that list together for all to see.  Robin wrote this back in March, but with summer coming in a few weeks, I can think of a few related projects.

Weekend reads: What does a femivore eat? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

"Weekend reads: What does a femivore eat?

It’s Friday afternoon, and that 

means it’s time for me to give you a little 

weekend reading from around the web.

Here are a few food related items that I thought might interest you.

“If a carnivore eats meat, an herbivore eats plants, and a locavore eats local foods, what does a femivore eat?”

I posed this question to my husband, and he twisted his face and said, “females?” knowing that couldn’t be the right answer, but the logical one.

We’ve got a story here on MNN about a feminist approved way of embracing domestic life called “femivorism.”

It’s an interesting concept, even if those embracing this way of life have chosen an unfortunate name for themselves.

A recent essay in the New York Times Magazine captures a mini-trend among four California women who are building chicken coops in their backyards.

“Apparently it is no longer enough to know the name of the farm your eggs came from; now you need to know the name of the actual bird,” writes Peggy Orenstein.

But Orenstein, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., surmises that the backyard farming offers some educated, stay-at-home moms a green and feminist-approved way

of embracing domestic life that she calls femivorism. Femivorism, she writes, is a sort of hybrid between feminism and locavorism."

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