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• Eating Animals Giveaway – Signed Copy!

  
  ilaxSTUDIO — Authority: 425
  When Steven and I attended Jonathan Safran Foer’s reading and discussion of Eating Animals we had him personally sign our copy of the book! How exciting! The only time I have ever had an author sign a book before this was when Frank Warren signed my copy of The Secret Lives of Men and Women (I also had him ...
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• German Media Breaks Silence, Reports Evidence Swine Flu Virus Came From Lab

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 125
  Thanks to Trond in Norway for this google translation of a report in the Financial Times Deutschland (see German below)Swine influenza laboratory could be an accident
  4 days ago

• Whole Foods Invests in Mobile Slaughterhouses

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 665
  This Thanksgiving, much attention has been paid to how your bird was raised, but how about the manner in which it was killed? The head meat buyer at Whole Foods, Theo Weening, made public the company’s effort to collaborate with both USDA and state regulatory agencies to develop certifiable mobile slaughterhouses ...
  5 days ago

• Eating Animals review and Reading by Foer

  
  ilaxSTUDIO — Authority: 425
  I finished reading Eating Animals a few days before last night’s reading of it by the author, Jonathan Safran Foer. Woo-hoo! It was stimulating to read a new book, and to listen to the author speak. Eating Animals Review: Overall, I found the book to be a gentle and easy read (despite all of the words I ...
  1 week ago

• Swine flu linked to North Carolina farm and Smithfield Foods

  
  David Shankbone — Authority: 464
  The swine flu that is now an epidemic in the United States is likely traced back to a farm in North Carolina , and its first appearance in Mexico occurred near farms owned by Smithfield Foods .   We inject dairy cows with so many hormones than women who drink regular milk are three times more likely to have ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Matter Of Taste

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 505
  I finished reading Eating Animals last night. I don’t want to post a true review and I also don’t want to re-hash what’s already been said here or elsewhere , particularly since this book is already getting so much good press, so I’m going to write about one small thing I learned from reading the book. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thinking about Food…

  
  Weight For Deb — Authority: 112
  I’ve been thinking a lot about food recently.  It’s odd- I have little interest in cooking most evenings, and almost no inspiration for making something for supper.  Yet, at the same time, I’m fascinated with finding healthier foods -and reading about healthier growing and production of foods.Today I traveled ...
  2 weeks ago

• CAFO Action Alert

  
  Edible Aria — Authority: 425
  As Wendell Berry has tartly observed, to take animals off pasture and put them on feed-lots is to take an elegant solution — animals replenishing the fertility that crops deplete — and neatly divide it into two problems: a fertility problem on the farm and a pollution problem on the feed-lot. The former problem is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Affordable Meat = Human Health Threat?

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 505
  From “ Swine CAFOs and Novel H1N1 Flu: Separating Facts from Fears ” comes this quote: one potential source of the original outbreak—swine farming in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)—has received comparatively little attention by public health officials. CAFOs house animals by the thousands in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why Be A Vegetarian? By Yashoda

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 505
  This is a powerful speech by a young woman who goes by yashoda17 on YouTube. Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RIGcf2Liq0
  4 weeks ago

• Who Cares About The Swine (Flu)?

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 505
  Even the way people talk about the Swine Flu belies our social myths and prejudices. Here’s an example. Animals, particularly pigs, have a lot in common with humans. That’s why some viruses spread between species, from pigs to people for example. This much scientists understand. They try to convey this through ...
  5 weeks ago

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