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Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs?

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After moving to ultra-eco-conscious Vancouver, Robyn Harding vows to decrease the size of her family’s carbon footprint. Ten-year-old Ethan worries about getting moobs from hormones in the food sup...
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  • 01 April 2010
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After moving to ultra-eco-conscious Vancouver, Robyn Harding vows to decrease the size of her family’s carbon footprint. Ten-year-old Ethan worries about getting moobs from hormones in the food supply, so Robyn commits to buying organic. She quickly discovers that to keep the family in organic milk, she’ll have to sell a kidney. Then, eight-year-old Tegan becomes obsessed with the diminishing polar bear population. Soon Robyn finds herself making litterless lunches, greening her home, and valiantly trying to de-commercialize Christmas and birthdays. To make matters worse, she befriends a three-children, no-car single mother who shuttles her offspring and their various musical instruments (including a cello) around by bike and trailer. Who can compete with that? Harding deals with the challenges of ethical consumerism with spirit and wit, pondering how far her family has come, how far they’re willing to go, and whether she can go green and stay sane — and keep her kidneys.
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Price: $13.99
Pages: 224
Publisher: Greystone Books
Imprint: Greystone Books
Publication Date: 01 April 2010
ISBN: 9781926685304
Format: eBook
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Robyn Harding is the author of four successful novels: Chronicles of a Midlife Crisis, The Journal of Mortifying Moments, The Secret Desires of a Soccer Mom, and Unravelled. She has also been a contributing editor at Granville magazine, a lifestyle publication with a focus on sustainability. This is her first non-fiction book, and she is currently working on a children's book. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her light green family.
Prologue
Chapter One: Pale Mint
Chapter Two: The Accidental Environmentalist
Chapter Three: Welcome to the Green Zone
Chapter Four: Keeping Up With the Greens
Chapter Five: An Oasis of Green
Chapter Six: The Environmental Zealot
Chapter Seven: Can We Afford to Eat Organic? Can We Afford Not To?
Chapter Eight: Will Chicken Give Me Man-Boobs?
Chapter Nine: Something's Fishy
Chapter Ten: What's the Deal With Dairy?
Chapter Eleven: The New Boogeyman
Chapter Twelve: My Small Green World
Chapter Thirteen: Happy Sustainable Birthday
Chapter Fourteen: Dreaming of a Green Christmas
Chapter Fifteen: A Green Field Trip
Chapter Sixteen: A Dirty Habit
Epilogue