If we really want to change the situation, we have to do more than endlessly call upon USDA, FDA, agribusiness and related entities to “do” something. We as consumers need READ ON
Animal Products and Culture
A Response to NPR’s Fresh Air Show: Assessing Consumer Concerns About the Meat Industry
From the Animal’s Point of View: Photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur’s Inspiring Presentation
In this hour-long video, photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur takes us on a journey of her work which involves travel to amazing places and truly unique experiences with individual animals that she READ ON
John Sanbonmatu’s Letter to the New York Times Editors
If it’s so natural and normal and necessary, why does the New York Times try to defend meat eating and the meat industry with many elaborate, convoluted and often bizarre READ ON
What Are We Really Meant to Eat Today?
The thing about humans is that we are highly evolved omnivores. We have adapted to survive according to whatever foods are available. When fruits, nuts, and plants are plentiful, we READ ON
How Is Kosher Meat Even Possible in the Age of Factory Farming?
On the way to the airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador, I met an observant Jewish man who looked out of place with his yarmulke and long coat in this Latin American, READ ON
Top 6 Reasons Why Some Vegans and Vegetarians Return to Eating Animals
Some interesting vegan and vegetarian “defector” stories are making their way across cyberspace lately with some recounting horror stories of near death experiences, all blamed on their vegan diet. One READ ON
Are You Addicted to Cheese?
Cheese has a concentration of opiate compounds originating in milk called casomorphins (1) believed to help strengthen the bond between mother cow and calf. The idea that they contributes to READ ON
Non-Human and Human Animals: More Similarities Than Differences
Would it matter if we perceived other species as fundamentally like us instead of fundamentally different, recognizing clear distinctions between our capacities to modify our environment, communicate and learn through READ ON
See No Evil: Denial and Animal Suffering (Part 1)
We live in a culture where it is completely normal to do things to billions of animals that we would consider unthinkable to do to humans or the cats and READ ON
The 4-H Club: A Case Study in How We Teach Our Children to Relate to Farm Animals
University of Colorado researchers Colter Ellis and Leslie Irvine have published a paper examining how children in 4-H programs interact with and view the animals they raise and then sell READ ON
Animal, Vegetable, Science, Ethics: Interview with Jonathan Balcombe
Author, ethologist and biologist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe is breaking new ground in our understanding of and appreciation for animals. For many, Second Nature, his last book, was their first introduction READ ON
