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Eating Animals

Who Is Really Occupying Your Plate?

Nil Zacharias | Posted 01.09.2012 | Green

Read More: Speciesism, Social Justice, Environmental Justice, Animal Rights, Carnism, Oppression, Eating Animals, Vegan, Occupy Wall Street, Environment, Injustice, Vegetarian, Green News
Nil Zacharias

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 | Food

Read More: Josh Ozersky, Baby Animals, Veal, Baby Lamb, Adult Animals, Eating Baby Animals, Eating Animals, Food News

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 | Healthy Living

Read More: Veganism, Ethics of Eating Animals, Healthy Living Body, Carnivores, Eating Animals, Diet and Nutrition, Diet, Herbivores, Vegetarianism, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

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 | Books

Read More: Michael Chabon, The Social Animal, Madame Bovary, David Brooks, Eating Animals, Zadie Smith, Scott Turow, Cool Book Covers, Manhood for Amateurs, Innocent, James Gleick, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Sedaris, The Information, Books News

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 | Food

Read More: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Omnivore, Carnivore, Steak Tartare, Meat, Beef, Eating Animals, Recipes, Eating Meat, Animals, Vegetarianism, Vegangelism, Food News
Laura Silverman

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 | Food

Read More: Kill It Cook It Eat It, Eating Animals, Current, Eating Meat, Food Tv, Bbc, Food News

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 | Food

Read More: Paul McCartney, Eating Animals, Paul McCartney India, India, Eating Meat, Paul McCartney Vegetarian Day, Vegetarian Day, Food News

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 | Food

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Eating Animals, Smithfield Abuse, Humane Society, Smithfield, Pork, Pig, Smithfield Cruelty, Smithfield Pork, Pigs, Food News

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 | Food

Read More: Eating Animals, Meat Charts, Video Games, Animals, Meat, Nose to Tail, Koopa, Food News

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 | Books

Read More: Nick Hornby Juliet Naked, Safran Foer, Howard-Jacobson-Booker-Prize, Table Tennis, Howard Jacobson, Eating Animals, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Nick Hornby, Ping Pong, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Books News

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 | Books

Read More: Vegetarian, Hal Herzog, Pigs, Vegan, Some We Eat, Animals, Food Ethics, Food Economics, Some We Love, Eating Animals, Chicken, Some We Hate, Local Food, Ethics, Food, Rats, Hal Herzog Book, Animal Ethics, Books News

"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 | Food

Read More: Eating Animals, Eating Pets, Feline, Eating Cat, Cat, Food, Eating Cats, Marinating Cat, Food News

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 | Food

Read More: Super Size Me, Fast Food, Michelle Obama, Vegetarian, Hamburger, Children, Vegan, Soda Tax, Slow Food, Liberty, Organic Food, Soda, Trans Fat Ban, Eating Animals, Freedom, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Real Food, Adults, Jonathan Safran Foer, Obesity, Theilemma, Food News
Alan Miller

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 | Food

Read More: Vegetarian, Eating Animals, Farmers Markets, Vegan, Factory Farms, Nicolette Hahn Niman, Food, Meat, Free Range, Jonathan Safran Foer, Food News
Nicolette Hahn Niman

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 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Omnivore's Dilema, Eating Animals, Eatine Meat, Vegetarianism, Green News
Isabel Cowles

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 | Books

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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 | Books

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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 | World

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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 | Books

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Animal Rights, Books, Eating Animals, Green, Mahatma Gandhi, Animals, Colbert Report, Jonathan Safran Foer, Food Politics, Food, Books News
Vamsee Juluri

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 | Green

Read More: u.s. Farming System, Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer Colbert, u.s. Agriculture, Colbert Report, Food, Vegetarianism, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Green News

"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 | Green

Read More: China Dogs, Eating Animals, Eating Pigs, Eating Dogs, Pigs, China Dog Meat, Pork, Animals, Vegetarianism, Dogs, Green News

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 | Healthy Living

Read More: Eating Animals, Yoga, Food Inc, NY Times, Marion Nestle, Yoga Journal, Vegetarianism, Peter Pringle, Ayurveda, Healthy Living News
Derek Beres

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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Eating Animals: Caring Is Not A Zero-Sum Game

Laurie David | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Eating Animals, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Book Reviews, Laurie David, Animals, Vegetarianism, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Laurie David

One of the many problems with Michiko Kakutani's lame and flamboyantly irrational New York Times review of Eating Animals is that it suggests her own irrelevancy.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Controversial New Book, Eating Animals

Aaron Gross | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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Aaron Gross

Over the next weeks Huffington Post will feature a diverse range of responses to Jonathan Safran Foer's controversial new work of non-fiction, Eating Animals.

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Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer Talks To Ellen About His New Book (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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Jonathan Safran Foer spoke with Ellen Degeneres today about his new book, Eating Animals, which uncovers the horrible world of factory farming. (Check...

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