Eating Animals

Man Arrested For Allegedly Cooking And Eating Cats

AP | Posted 04.17.2012

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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — In a case that has shocked even investigators, a California man is in jail for allegedly cooking and eating cats. Jason L...

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Who Is Really Occupying Your Plate?

Nil Zacharias | Posted 01.09.2012

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Eating animals is a practice that shapes and is shaped by the same mentality that enables other oppressions that we accuse governments and big corporations of.

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Should You Eat Baby Animals?

Posted 12.05.2011

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In his weekly food column for TIME, Josh Ozersky writes about "The Gastronomic Case Against Eating Baby Animals." The self-professed meat lover and fo...

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Eating Well vs. Being Good: Can We Ethically Eat Animals?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.20.2011

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The ethical case against eating animals generally originates with our place in the animal kingdom. We are, of course, animals.

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PHOTOS: 15 Cool Book Covers That Didn't Make The Cut

nytimes.com | Posted 07.16.2011

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For authors, choosing a book cover is the fraught moment their very private creation starts putting on its game face and getting ready to enter the ma...

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To Meat Or Not To Meat

Laura Silverman | Posted 05.25.2011

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In exchange (ultimately for their lives), they received protection from predators, assistance in bearing young and even rudimentary health care. What would become of our domesticated animals if we were to stop eating them?

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'Kill It, Cook It, Eat It' Slaughtering Show Comes To Cable

Squid Ink | Posted 05.25.2011

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LA Weekly's Squid Ink writes: Just in case your meat guilt wasn't powerful enough, here comes Kill It, Cook It, Eat It, a BBC show premiering in A...

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Paul McCartney Urges India To Declare Vegetarian Day

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW DELHI — Outspoken vegetarian Paul McCartney is urging India to declare a national Vegetarian Day to celebrate meat-free living and compassio...

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Leading Pork Producer Caught Severely Abusing Pigs

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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RICHMOND, Va. — The Humane Society of the United States said Wednesday that an undercover worker at a farm owned by the world's largest pork pro...

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8-Bit Nose To Tail

The Jude Abides | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the upcoming show Pixel Pushers, sponsored by SCION and curated by Giant Robot, I decided to explore the carnivorous side of the world of video ga...

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Why Do Writers Like Ping Pong?

GalleyCat | Jason Boog | Posted 05.25.2011

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In November, It Books will publish "Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes our World" by Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz. The ping...

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'Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat'

AP | MICHAEL HILL | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals" (HarperCollins, $25.99), by Hal Herzog: Consider the cockf...

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Legal To Eat Your Cat? Slate's Explainer Takes On Marinating Cat Story

Slate Magazine | Brian Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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When police in Western New York pulled over Gary Korkuc for blowing off a stop sign on Sunday, they found a live cat in his trunk, covered in cooking ...

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Our big problem

Alan Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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In this weekend's Wall Street Journal Theodore Dalrymple (the pen name for Anthony Daniels, a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist) was only the lat...

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Avoiding Factory Farm Foods: An Eater's Guide

Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eventually, I mostly gave up on supermarkets and began exploring new ways to get at the good food I was seeking. My goal was simple: I wanted all my food to come from places I would enjoy visiting.

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Real Environmentalists Eat Meat

Isabel Cowles | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although the meat industry's horrors are worth noting, the attempt to turn everyone into a vegetarian is creating a polarization that is not helping the effort to move away from factory farming.

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Jonathan Safran Foer On 'Ellen': Following Up With The 'Eating Animals' Author (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Safran Foer followed up with Ellen Degeneres today about his recent book, "Eating Animals." He spoke with Ellen for the first time in Novembe...

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Martha Stewart's Kindle: What Is She Reading?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Martha Stewart answered 20 questions for the Financial Times on Thursday, and in one of the questions, Stewart dished on what she's reading right now:...

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Italian Food TV Host Under Fire For "Succulent" Cat Stew Recommendation (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Colin Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011

Leading Italian food expert, writer and TV host Beppe Bigazzi has been suspended indefinitely from his TV program for curiously recommending a cat ste...

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Of Truth and Truthiness: Eating Animals on The Colbert Report

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our common-sense about what we eat needs a radical cleansing after decades of "food" industry propaganda. Eating Animals is nothing less than a derailing of a runaway train of indifference.

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Colbert To Jonathan Safran Foer (VIDEO): Free Range Means Chickens Run Over Fields Of Flowers, Make Love

Posted 05.25.2011

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"Eating Animals" author Jonathan Safran Foer appeared on The Colbert Report Monday night to discuss the U.S. farm system, arguing that it is "perfectl...

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Eating Dogs Is No Worse Than Eating Pigs: NYT Op-Ed

The New York Times | ROGER COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. However I cannot see a rational argument ...

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The Yoga of Eating Animals

Derek Beres | Posted 11.17.2011

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If yoga teachers fail to recognize the damage being done around them then we are losing an essential community of voices who have to help reverse this agricultural monoculture.

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Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change

Jonathan Safran Foer | Posted 11.17.2011

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When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. It's a strange formulation, and it's distracting.

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Eating Animals: Why Eating Matters

Kathy Freston | Posted 05.25.2011

If ever there was a book that could profoundly affect our lives at the most fundamental level, this one is it.

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