These words "carnivore" and "vegetarian" do a real disservice to the conversation, because they imply an on/off switch rather than a spectrum. We no longer ask someone "Are you an environmentalist?"
David Kirby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
Are animal factories here to stay? Whatever the Obama team decides to do -- or not do -- could have a huge impact on the way we raise food animals in America for decades to come.
Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
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.
Laurie David | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
This book is a game changer. Eating Animals offers an impassioned argument against animal cruelty and for a more informed, responsible relationship with our food.
David Kirby | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
If elected, Obama promised, he would convene a major national summit on rural issues within 100 days of taking office. Across the country, rural activists held their breath.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books
Foer's taken a three-year respite from writing fiction to probe the question of whether we should eat animals -- with this research and writing task triggered by his meditation on what to feed his first child.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
Think of your ballot as a list of menu options. Would you like your burger with, or without, deadly pathogens?
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books
Beginning the week of October 26, 2009, we ran a series of reviews on HuffPost Books on Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. It was a surp...
Bob Cesca | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
Issue 2 will amend Ohio's state constitution to create a small regulatory panel to oversee all of Ohio's livestock. Corporate agribusinesses love the idea, but family farms will be crushed.
Mikko Alanne | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green
Foer's undercover reporting -- while clearly an important public service -- are actually illegal, and what's more, they constitute acts of domestic terrorism under the little-known Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.
Kathy Freston | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books
If ever there was a book that could profoundly affect our lives at the most fundamental level, this one is it.
Naomi Starkman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
Feeding cattle chicken litter is everyday practice in feedlots. Surprisingly, this unhealthy and inhumane practice is legal and poorly monitored, creating unacceptable risks to human and animal health.
Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.
Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books
If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.
Times Online | Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green
People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming. In an interview ...
Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
The public no longer wants a combination of financial bailouts and government deregulation. But Congress and the U.S.D.A. never seem to have gotten the memo when it comes to Big Agribusiness, especially the pork industry.
Aaron Gross | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books
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.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books
Whether you are a vegan, vegetarian, or committed meat eater, Tal Ronnen's book can help you down the path of higher-quality, good tasting, humane eating.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green
Over time, I am confident that most of the people who stand in the way of moral progress will be forgotten, just like most of the individuals who stood in the way of John Muir and Steven Mather.
nytimes.com | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
In Morrison, more than 100 wells were polluted by agricultural runoff within a few months, according to local officials. As parasites and bacteria see...
washingtonpost.com | Ezra Klein | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
When you give antibiotics to animals meant to become food, however, you're ensuring that antibiotics end up in the food in low but constant doses. Tha...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
Animal welfare should be part of the Corporate Social Responsibility portfolio for any major corporation, and increasingly, companies are heeding the call.
Nancy Stoner | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
The Chesapeake Bay watershed spans portions of six states and more than 60,000 square miles. The only way to clean up the Bay is to get all of those states to work at home to clean up the streams.
TIME | Bryan Walsh Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
We don't have the luxury of philosophizing about food. With the exhaustion of the soil, the impact of global warming and the inevitably rising price o...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green