The world is red in tooth and claw, it is said. Animals kill and eat each other as a matter of course. It’s as natural as breathing, sleeping, and breeding. READ ON
Animal Products and Culture
Morality, Biology, Complicity: Humans Not Predators
The Amnesia-ville Horror
Unless small-scale farms have a plan to upend the most basic principle of classical economics–not to mention human nature–their endorsement of eating animals will continue to be, however inadvertently–an endorsement READ ON
A Response to NPR’s Fresh Air Show: Assessing Consumer Concerns About the Meat Industry
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
Large Demonstration in Paris Calls for the Closure of Slaughterhouses
PARIS: On Saturday, June 2nd organizers from multiple animal organizations staged a large scale demonstration at the symbolic location of the old slaughterhouses of Vaugirard in the 15th Arrondissment, where READ ON
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
Facing Animals: A Dutch Documentary about Our Wildly Conflicting Perceptions of Animals
Why do we look away from millions of animals in industrial farms while pampering and humanizing others? Such is the fundamental question posed by a fascinating new documentary film by 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
From Dairy Farmer to Vegan Advocate: Pamela Ziemann’s Remarkable Transformation
I met Pamela Ziemann recently when I found an ad on Facebook for the Vegan Milk Revolution Contest and decided to enter it. From our first phone conversation through our READ ON
Treating Cancer with Plant Based Nutrition: One Dietitian’s Story
“My interest in plant-based nutrition began while I was in school studying nutrition. I became fascinated with the clinicians who utilized a plant-based diet to treat and prevent chronic disease. 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
Decoding Carnism: The Case of the Self-Professed ‘Compassionate’ Butcher
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a story published by civileats.com about Farmstead Meatsmith and the owner / butcher Brandon Sheard. It’s a prime example of a trend I READ ON
Saving the Sparrow Yet Eating the Chicken
I could not help but acknowledge the great disconnect between helping one trapped bird—the sparrow— and yet at the same time eating another trapped bird—the chicken—that had lived its short READ ON
Lurking behind the next ‘fact-based” consumer food site you land on just might be corporate PR man Rick Berman
Who is Rick Berman? Unless you are a big corporate executive looking to wage a big PR war against some consumer group, you would never have a reason to know READ ON
