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If the existential slicing and dicing of pork from pig answers the ethical objections to meat-eating, can there be any real objection to the cultivation and consumption of vat-grown people meat?
Here it is: A mere 40 years from now, the world population, which just recently reached a sweating, gasping seven billion, will be well over nine billion.
Sometimes it's better not to think about what we're eating and just enjoy the flavor and texture. Whenever I see a dish that contains bone marrow, there is no talking me out of it.
"Why Papua New Guinea?" my mom asks me. I have no immediate answers. But a week later, I have not only found it on a map, but also come up with a philosophy to explain the voyage.
Within hours in Chile, 33 miners trapped 2,000 feet underground will experience a rebirthday as they are raised to the surface. How will Los 33 fare above ground? What challenges lie ahead? Will their lives ever be the same again?
Of the 81 pioneers trapped in the mountains, a little over half survived. Even if it were provable that no one turned to cannibalism, why do people today care so much whether they did or didn't?
The hubris of the missionary's position, either as part and parcel of the European colonial system or as part and parcel of the American Century, is inescapable once you notice it.
Teddy Daniels, the U.S. Marshal played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's new movie doesn't know what he's in for when he arrives on Shutter Is...
America's last honest institution, Consumer Reports, decides to check out perhaps the greatest invention in modern history since liquid Prell, namely GPS systems.
The interesting thing about McCainnibalism is that it does not stop with trying to obliterate members outside of the campaign. The political gorging begins to happen on the inside.
Much ink was spilled over Mitt Romney's speech last week about his Mormon faith. Very little attention was paid to America's dark history of anti-Mormonism.
