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• National Cattlemen’s Beef Association — A Climate Change Hero…?

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  Painting by Sue Coe David Cassuto Guess what?  Apparently, human contributions to climate change is still iffy science and even if it weren’t, the beef industry sequesters rather than releases carbon and should be rewarded for its zealous fight against climate change.  So says the National Cattlemen’s Beef ...
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• CCI named ‘Most Valuable Grassroots Advocacy Group’

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 663
  The Nation has published its annual list of “Most Valuable Progressives,” and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement made the grade. The list, complied by Nation staffers, Washington watchdogs and grassroots activists around the country, aims to honor individuals and organizations that “may not get enough ...
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• And Now For Something Completely Different: Traffic

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 103
  I decided to mix things up a bit around here.  Instead of my normal news post, I will be writing a story.  I hope you enjoy. We started this whole operation almost five years ago.  We set up a front: a small exotic pet store which specialized in corals and tropical fish.  The store was fully operational. ...
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• Who we eat is moral question: Vegans have nothing to defend

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  A recent column in the New York Times "Sorry, Vegans: Brussels Sprouts Like to Live, Too ". concerning our food choices presents some interesting ideas to ponder but has little to do with what is scientifically known about vegetables and other plants. In places this essay reads as if its a convenient excuse, and not ...
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• From Vegan.com, this is your cry yourself to sleep on Christmas...

  
  vegansaurus! — Authority: 533
  From Vegan.com , this is your cry yourself to sleep on Christmas video. You might want to have a companion animal nearby to hug so hard you almost accidentally kill them while you watch it. SO. Some folks dressed as Santa visit pigs on an Austrian factory farm and give them hay to play in and apples to eat. First, ...
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• Cold Turkey: Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Eating Animals’

  
  World Change Cafe — Authority: 117
  By Peter Singer Jonathan Safran Foer is a talented novelist with a gift for writing amusingly about serious issues. In Everything Is Illuminated (2003), he created a Ukrainian narrator, Alex, who describes in hilarious detail his work assisting an American Jew – named Jonathan Safran Foer – in finding the woman ...
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• Health standards for school lunch meat far lower than for fast food joints

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Food , Health As a Dad with a daughter in public school, I was more than a little alarmed to read that the meat/bacteria regulations for fast food restaurants are 10 times more strict than the standards set by the USDA for school lunches, according to a report by USA Today . Underscoring how ...
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• Some Externalized Havoc from Industrial Agriculture

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  David Cassuto Following up on Jessica’s prairie dog post of a little while back, here’s an excellent piece on the havoc industrial agriculture wreaks on wild animals (in addition to farmed animals) and the non-animal environment.
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• Science and Soul: Nopenhagen

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 103
  Science News in Brief The discovery of a 4.4 million year old fossil skeleton that may have belonged to an early human ancestor was discovered in October.  Now, this discovery is hailed by the journal Science , as the greatest scientific breakthrough of the year. Poll: View This Poll trends The ...
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• Test Tube Steak: It’s What’s for Dinner

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 482
  I can’t quite begin to imagine what the laboratory flesh created by scientists last month might taste like, but petri pork may be hitting the breakfast table sooner than you know. Nobody knows what it tastes like because the scientists who created this delicacy are not actually allowed to eat their creations, but ...
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• Meat, Copenhagen and Climate Change

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  David Cassuto Concerned citizens the world over have gathered in Copenhagen to hammer out a plan to arrest climate change and prevent a planetary apocalypse.  Many have written much about the talks (check out, for example, Andy Revkin’s blog ) but at least as interesting is what’s being neither talked about ...
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• Why I’d Rather Feed My Child Dirt Than a School Lunch

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  David Cassuto I’ve been trying to figure out what it says about this country that McDonalds  sets higher standards for its flesh products than the USDA does for school lunch programs. At a minimum, it says that we care almost as little about our children as we do about the animals we torture and slaughter to ...
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• Factory Farms, Mark Bittman and TSCA — An Unlikely Trio

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  David Cassuto Intriguing blog post by Mark Bittman , of all people, wondering whether industrial meat could be illegal under TSCA (the Toxic Substances Control Act) .  The argument would be that TSCA gives the EPA authority to regulate substances that pose “an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Voiceless Toolkit Can Now Be Yours

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  From the email: Last night the Honourable Justice Ruth McColl AO, Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of NSW, launched the Voiceless Animal Law Toolkit . The launch was part of the Voiceless 2009 Awards Event, where this year’s Voiceless Grant recipients and inaugural Voiceless Media Prize winner were ...
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• If Factory Farms had Glass Walls, would you eat conventional Meat?

  
  elephant journal — Authority: 494
  It’s not about killing, merely: it’s about cruelty. And, ahimsa . Paul McCartney for PETA: Egad. You may not become vegetarian after watching this video (I dare you to get through two minutes of it)…but you’ll certainly support restaurants that offer local, free range meat, and buy your groceries more ...
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• Hill Download: A Recap of CLF’s Briefing

  
  Green Fork Blog — Authority: 422
  This post was originally published last week (Dec 2) by our friends at Center for a Livable Future . Today on Capitol Hill leading experts in economics, public health and public policy and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), a leading voice on antibiotic resistance, discussed the impact of resistant infections on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Science & Soul: Cellular Automata

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 103
  Science News in Brief Turns out that the Iron Curtain helped isolate Eastern Europe from more than the Western world.  It also blocked the import of alien bird species.  Restrictions on the movement of people and trade in Soviet bloc countries prevented invasive birds being imported, a problem which has plagued ...
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• More on the Vegan Dialogues

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  Matthew Blaisdell This is a summation/expansion of my comments (see post & comments here ) relating to the NY Times Op-Ed in which the writer likened the killing of animals for meat consumption to the Holocaust. I know only about as much as the general public regarding animal rights/law.  I do think that ...
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• Newborn Calves Abused at Organic Farm

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  Elizabeth Bennett Unfortunately, allegations of animal abuse at slaughterhouses have long been prevalent.  It is not, however, too often that you hear of a farm or company being punished for such cruel behavior.  Recently, an organically certified Vermont slaughterhouse called Bushway Packing Inc. was ordered ...
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• Vegan With a Vengeance

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  Tara Dugo On November 22, 2009, the New York Times ran an op ed that discussed, of all things, veganism.  (Previously discussed on this blawg on November 24, 2009 and November 27, 2009 .)  The op ed, which was written by Gary Steiner, a Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University, really delved into the ...
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