Cows on Carousels with Music from "Chariots of Fire"
It has something of the feel of Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001 with the passengers on their ultra-pasteurized vessel and the Blue Danube Waltz playing in the…
Butterball Turkey Abuse on Video … Again
If you’re eating a turkey from Butterball, the world’s largest such factory farm, chances are you’re eating a severely abused bird – beaten, kicked, thrown at…
Bill Lives, Lou Dies, School Stumbles on
With animal protection groups raising holy hell over Green Mountain College’s (GMC) plan to kill their two old working oxen and serve them up in the…
Drink Milk, Get Cancer
The evidence that dairy products are actively bad for you just keeps mounting. A 2009 study linked them to breast cancer. Another study has linked them…
How Bill and Lou Unmasked Our Hypocrisy
Bill and Lou still enjoy the sunny fall afternoons at Green Mountain College, a Vermont school that teaches sustainable farming to its students. The two elderly…
Food, Life and Liberation
When people ask me what they can do in the face of what’s shaping up to be a mass extinction of species, I always say that switching to a plant-based diet is the single best thing any of us can do. Not only is the food delicious and healthful; eating it becomes an act of solidarity with your new friends, the farm animals.
Running Out of Bacon
As global warming takes its toll on farmlands, the world is beginning to run out of bacon. Britain’s National Pig Association is pleading with the British…
Growing Shoes in a Test Tube?
Several companies are already in a race to be the first to produce tasty meat grown in laboratories from cultured cells, not living animals. But one…
Are Factory Farm Antibiotics Making Us Obese?
If you’re getting fat and you don’t know why, it may be that you’re being dosed with antibiotics in the meat you’re eating. Two new studies…
Feds Shut Down Slaughterhouse
Yet another undercover investigation, more video horrors, and now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has stepped in and suspended operations at the Central Valley Meat Co.…
Natalie Portman’s Vegan Jewish Wedding
Black Swan star Natalie Portman’s wedding last Saturday evening was all traditional Jewish – except for the menu. All vegan. [readon] Portman has been a vegetarian…
A Toast to Wasps and Hornets
If you enjoy fine wine and tasty beer, give a nod to wasps – it wouldn’t be possible without them. Long before humankind learned how to…
Bird Flu Strikes Mexico–2.5 mil Chickens Killed
Chickens at a factory farm in Mexico Two and a half million chickens have been slaughtered in the last few weeks in 31 factory farms in…
When Religion Means Cruelty to Animals
What are the proper limits of religious freedom? Marianne Thieme, leader of the Party for the Animals in the Netherlands, offers this answer: “Religious freedom stops…
All Dressed Up for Their Last Foie Gras Spree
There’s something quite chilling about this series of photos, taken by Marcio Jose Sanchez at the Sent Sovi restaurant in Saratoga, California. The diners were gathered…
No Butchering at This Butcher’s Shop
The refrigerator cabinets are stuffed with ground beef, chicken pieces, meatballs, bacon, everything you’d expect to see at the butcher’s shop. Except that there’s no meat in any of them.
Yet More Antibiotics in Feed Lots
It’s bad enough that animals at factory farms are being dosed up with antibiotics. Now we’re learning that they’re getting a whole other source of antibiotics, too – not just the kinds that come directly from the pharmaceutical industry.
All You Can Eat
Two-thirds of adults and one-third of children in the United States are overweight or obese. We’re not only eating ourselves to death; the “food” we eat is actively poisoning us. And some of it is poisoning the planet, too.
Foie Gras Ban Upheld
California legislators will not repeal the ban on foie gras that takes effect July 1st. About 100 chefs had signed a petition Monday to keep the…
Chefs’ Last Ditch Stand to Keep Serving Foie Gras
Two months ago, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck wrote to fellow chefs in California asking them to join him in embracing the state’s new law banning foie…