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• What the Turkey Leaves Behind

  
  New Hampshire Public Radio — Authority: 572
  A retired Marines new mission is to photograph illegal mounds of poultry manure.
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• Doing More Good

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 483
  Martha Stewart is having a vegetarian Thanksgiving and Glenn Beck cares about animals? Whoa, what’s going on here? Jonathan Safran Foer said in an interview: “Look, someone like Glenn Beck could not have a turkey and that’s fine, but what I would so strongly prefer is that he had a week-long series about ...
  1 day ago

• Attacking the Messenger: Big Ag’s Attempt to Misdirect Attention from Its Own Problems

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 597
  Reading agribusiness officials’ responses to undercover exposés documenting egregious acts of cruelty to farm animals can be truly mind-boggling. I’ve written about this before, and feel compelled to follow up with a couple more recent sordid examples. When faced with gruesome images of mistreatment of ...
  1 day ago

• The Dance of Life: The endless cycle of birth, death and our relationship to the food we consume

  
  Wild Reiki and Shamanic Healing Blog — Authority: 406
  Rose De Dan offers Reiki to cow ©Rose De Dan 2009 All of us are involved in the dance of life; the endless cycle of birth and of death. In order that life may be sustained, energy, in the form of matter—food—must be consumed, no matter what species we are. Every living being is part of the food chain, but in ...
  2 days ago

• Jeremy Rifkin Writes A Book For Every Crisis - He usually gets some things right

  
  Energy Tough Love Blog — Authority: 125
  For instance his stand against genetically altered food only makes sense in the context of the chemical and seed companies attempts to patent biology or biological sources. All our food is genetically altered. It has been for thousands of years. Frankly I prefer the genetic altering we can see, so to speak as opposed ...
  2 days ago

• Eating Animals: Debunking our Pastoral Myth

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 597
  Jonathan Safran Foer speaks with the reasoning of a vegetarian, the skepticism of an investigative journalist and the concern of a parent in Eating Animals . This persuasive narrative forces us to ask why we have ignored the issues associated with factory-farmed meat and fish for so long. We’ve done so, Foer ...
  5 days ago

• If you don’t choose a vegetarian Thanksgiving celebration, consider a heritage turkey instead

  
  Out In Left Field — Authority: 126
  Go ahead and roll your eyes. The mere idea of a vegetarian Thanksgiving is enough to send most people into hysterics, foaming at the mouth and cursing about tradition and turkeys. Relax.Then take a look at this video and see if you can watch it all the way through. I dare you.If, after watching that, [...]
  6 days ago

• If you don’t choose a vegetarian Thanksgiving celebration, consider a heritage turkey instead

  
  Out In Left Field — Authority: 126
  Go ahead and roll your eyes. The mere idea of a vegetarian Thanksgiving is enough to send most people into hysterics, foaming at the mouth and cursing about tradition and turkeys. Relax.Then take a look at this video and see if you can watch it all the way through. I dare you.If, after watching that, [...]
  6 days ago

• Fox News Features Graphic Pig-Farm Video

  
  The PETA Files — Authority: 641
  When I was 16 years old, I was invited to a picnic. When I arrived, I was shocked to realize that Id actually been invited to a pig roast — big difference . The sight of a whole charred pig turning on a spit with an apple stuck in his mouth was all I needed to convince myself that Id never eat pork, i.e. pig , ...
  1 week ago

• A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 403
  I’m all ranted out for now, so I shall bring this series to a close.  I have hinted at a number of things we, the average consumer, can do to improve the system.  So, to finish off the series, I am posting a list created by a professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Richard Andrus, which I think is completely ...
  1 week ago

• Poem: The Old Battery Hen

  
  The Spicy Cauldron — Authority: 128
  An elderly ex-battery hen is like a sweet ghost made from weathered feathers, and glass; fragile yet determined, she stalks, she mutters, she sings a poultry spiritual of the days when she was caged beak to beak and bald, with sisters, tormented and Big Hands were never kind, or gentle, and every piece she gave was ...
  1 week ago

• Planing an Eco-Friendly Thanksgiving

  
  greenUPGRADER — Authority: 463
  Whether you are cooking a turkey, adopting a turkey, or skipping the turkey, here are a few tips for a greener Thanksgiving.Can you believe that Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away? For a lot of folks, that means eating turkey until they pop.  Americans eat over 45 million turkeys on Thanksgiving and most ...
  1 week ago

• ‘We can eat meat, ditch factory farming and save the planet’

  
  Daisy Green — Authority: 139
  We don’t need to go veggie to feed a booming world population and save the planet from climate change and forest destruction. And we can produce enough food for everyone without factory farming , new research from Friends of the Earth and Compassion in World farming shows. ‘Eating the planet? ‘, ...
  1 week ago

• Half-way Through Eating Animals

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 483
  It’s strange to me that some people will argue that a book they haven’t read isn’t worth reading. It’s like someone who has never been to Paris saying that Paris isn’t all that special. Maybe it is or maybe it isn’t, but someone who’s never been to Paris probably isn’t a trustworthy source of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Monsonto’s Ads

  
  OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog — Authority: 475
  A hot topic on my mind of late has been Monsanto’s advertising or sponsorship of NPR (National Public Radio). Maybe you’ve heard their messages running on NPR for several months now like I have, claiming that they support a sustainable future, and create a better world for farmers. In a separate print ad they ...
  2 weeks ago

• Where Jonathan Safran Foer Gets It Wrong

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 483
  An article in Salon.com about Eating Animals might persuade many people to read the book and/or reduce or eliminate meat consumption. But reading through the article with a critical vegan eye, I can see a few problems. Where Jonathan Safran Foer gets it wrong: He writes… “These little daily choices that ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Hazards of Meat-Eating Hit the Mainstream Media

  
  Humane Connection — Authority: 130
  I’ve been vegan for twenty years. As I learned about the plight of animals in modern agriculture from Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation , John Robbins’ Diet for a New America and numerous undercover films that showed the conditions under which the great majority of animals are raised for food, I knew I ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Hazards of Meat-Eating Hit the Mainstream Media

  
  Zoe Weil — Authority: 417
  I’ve been vegan for twenty years. As I learned about the plight of animals in modern agriculture from Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation , John Robbins’ Diet for a New America and numerous undercover films that showed the conditions under which the great majority of animals are raised for food, I knew I ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 403
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
  2 weeks ago

• Influenza History And Industrial Farming. Afghanistan Reminder

  
  Gary Rumor's Anti-Entropic Continuum — Authority: 128
  Afghani Women say the United States Military should get out of Afghanistan. That is the position of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. They claim that the struggle against the warlords and Taliban is complicated by the presence of the NATO forces led by the USA. The CIA and other US agencies ...
  2 weeks ago

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