Pescetarians—those who eschew eating all animals with the notable exceptional of fish—are commonly viewed as having fashioned diets that are more ethically focused than opportunistic omnivores. But could it be READ ON
Why Fish Can No Longer Escape Our Conscience
The Whey Toxic Byproduct of Greek Yogurt
When we think of Greek yogurt, we generally don’t think about environmental devastation. However, according to a recent report in ModernFarmer.com, that’s about to change. Confirming the inherent waste involved READ ON
The Backyard Chess Game: Dogs, Chickens and Egg Fixations
Spend enough time reading about the quotidian tribulations of poultry proprietors and you quickly learn about the centrality of violence in chicken ownership. In point of fact the chickens, so READ ON
News Alert: Oakland Sausages Adulterated with Compassion
In the latest labeling scandal to rock the foodie world, an Oakland-based restaurant is enduring a Yelp-inspired pile-on for failing to reveal that trace amounts of compassion were discovered in READ ON
The Paleo Diet: A Parody of History, Science, Ethics and Common Sense
Instead of thinking about how we were meant to eat, as if we were frozen in time or detached from the world around us, wouldn’t it make more sense to READ ON
Understanding the Mind of the Backyard Butcher
It’s easy to be outraged at these slaughterers. It’s harder to understand, however, why they do what they do. It’s not because they are bad people. One of the most READ ON
Shooting of Four Workers at Slaughterhouse and the Connection between Violence to Animals and Humans
Last month, an employee at a slaughterhouse in Fresno, California walked into work, pulled out a gun, and shot four people, two of them execution style, before attempting to take READ ON
Beyond Manure: the Future of Veganic Farming
Agribusiness insists that manure is necessary for commercial farming and animal products are essential to our health. It’s a case of the fox, not just minding the hen house, but READ ON
Vegans, Liberals and Social Justice for Animals
as animal rights ideas inch closer and closer to the mainstream, liberals face the risk of being exposed for espousing a basic way of life–omnivorism–that reifies abuse, hierarchy, intolerance, and READ ON
The Mobile Slaughterhouse: The Locavore’s Answer to Decentralizing Death
The mobile slaughterhouse is promoted by advocates of small-scale animal agriculture as a solution to the very serious problem of access to commercial processing facilities. Large producers benefit from consolidated, READ ON
A Revolutionary Idea: James McWilliams’ Open Letter to Whole Foods Market
I write with a simple, if revolutionary, idea: close all your meat counters. Every single one. Forget (for the moment) dairy and eggs and all the animal-based products dependent on READ ON
Animal Welfare Labeling: What They’re Not Telling You
Ninety-five percent of meat eaters today express an avid interest in animal welfare. Given the extent of this concern, certification has become big business. Unlike “organic,” however, there’s no legal READ ON
Love and Liberation: Insights on Animal Liberation from James McWilliams
When we drift into the vexed territory of benevolent control and ownership over animals, by what set of standards do we determine what makes an animal happy, or what kind READ ON
Nature’s Perfect Package: Labeling Our Way to a Clear Conscience
Consumers opposed to factory farming want to know more about the animals we eat. How were they raised? Did they live on a pasture? What did they eat? Where were READ ON
Morality, Biology, Complicity: Humans Not Predators
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
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
