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Jonathan Safran Foer Interview: "Eating Animals" Author On The Morality Of Vegetarianism

USA Today | Elizabeth Weise | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

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Jonathan Safran Foer is known for acclaimed novels such as Everything Is Illuminated. Foer was an on-again, off-again vegetarian for years. But the bi...

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The Meat-Eaters Guide to Eating Less Meat

Susie Middleton | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Eggs, Home Cooking, Impact-of-Meat-Eating, Nicolette-Hahn-Niman, Vegetarian, Animal Welfare, Cooking, Local Eating, Vegetables, Factory Farms, Small Farmers, Family Farming, Diet, Meat, Shellfish, Meat Labeling, Green News
Susie Middleton

Secretly, I could live on chocolate and coffee. But don't tell anyone, since I make my living writing about vegetables. And my darkest secret is this: My favorite thing in the whole world is (or was) chicken pan drippings.

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Top 10 (Recent) Developments On Factory Farming And Vegetarianism

Kathy Freston | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Chickens, Thanksgiving, Vegan, Environment, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Factory Farms, Presidential Turkey Pardon, Climate Change, Thanksgiving Commentary, Vegetarianism, Jonathan Safran Foer, Global Warming, Food Politics, Living News
Kathy Freston

One of the joys for which I am giving thanks is all of the recent attention on a topic that is near and dear to my heart -- the cruelty and environmental harm involved in raising animals for food.

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For The Love Of Turkeys: A Real Thanksgiving

Naomi Starkman | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Animal Rights, Thanksgiving Commentary, Turkeys, Thanksgiving, Green News
Naomi Starkman

I've been reading up on the hidden life of turkeys and thinking a lot about them lately, especially in connection to the sadness that befalls me each Thanksgiving, when 46 million are killed.

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PETA's Thanksgiving Turkey Ad NBC Won't Air (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Poll, Pamela Andersen, Thanksgiving Turkey, Food Politics, Turkeys, Thanksgiving, Factory Farms, Peta Ad, PETA Ad Thanksgiving Day Parade, Peta, Pamela Anderson, Green News

The animals rights group PETA is known for its shock tactics and pushing the envelope with its ads. Past ads that networks refused to air include the ...

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My Q and A With Jonathan Safran Foer

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Veganism, Meat, Vegetarianism, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News
Kerry Trueman

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?"

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Is Obama Ready to Take on Factory Farming?

David Kirby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Usda, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, Humane Society, Tom Vilsack, Factory Farms, Obama, Pollution, Cafos, Eric Holder, Clean Water Act, Green News
David Kirby

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.

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Avoiding Factory Farm Foods: An Eater's Guide

Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

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

Laurie David | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Laurie David, Sustainable Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Vegan, Eating Animals, Green News
Laurie David

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.

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The Future of Factory Farming: Barack Obama and the "Rural Agenda"

David Kirby | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Epa, Usda, Animal Welfare, Water Pollution, Cafo, Factory Farms, Obama, Air Pollution, Rural Development, Food, Living News
David Kirby

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.

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Eating Animals: A Book to Digest

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Books, Food Politics, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Wayne Pacelle

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.

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It's Election Day: May I Take Your Order?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Issue 2, Animal Welfare, Election Day, H1n1, Swine Flu, Public Health, Factory Farms, Food Safety, E. Coli, Food-Borne Illness, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Think of your ballot as a list of menu options. Would you like your burger with, or without, deadly pathogens?

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What's Next For Jonathan Safran Foer And Eating Animals?

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Natalie Portman, Animal Cruelty, Everything Is Illuminated, Book Reviews, Natalie Portman Eating Animals, Eating Meat, Agriculture, New Books, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Free Range, Jonathan Safran Foer, Vegetarian, Book Review, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Food Politics, Safran Foer Eating Animals, Books, Farming, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Factory Farms, Bestsellers, Books News

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...

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VIDEO: Vote Against Corporate Agribusiness

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Issue 2, Regulations, Lobbyists, Organic Food, Ohio, Factory Farms, Food, Agribusiness, Corporations, Green News
Bob Cesca

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.

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Jonathan Safran Foer - America's #1 Terrorist?

Mikko Alanne | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Rights, Dennis Kucinich, Eating Animals, Huntingdon Life Sciences, Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, Factory Farms, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, Fbi, Jonathan Safran Foer, Green News
Mikko Alanne

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.

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Eating Animals: Why Eating Matters

Kathy Freston | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books

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Kathy Freston

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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Halloween Horror: Cattle Fed Chicken Poop and Recycled Cow Remains

Naomi Starkman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Factory Farms, Cafo, Consumers Union, Fda, Mad Cow Disease, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Green News
Naomi Starkman

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.

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Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer's New Book Asks Why Don't We Eat Pets?

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Sustainable Agriculture, The Jungle, Vegetarianism, Eating Animals, Agriculture, Upton Sinclair, Books, Farming, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer, Factory Farms, Chickens, Pets, Livestock, Horses, Euthanize, Politics, Cats, Antibiotics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dogs, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, Books News
Rabbi David Wolpe

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.

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The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Veganism, Farming, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Why Our Health Matters, Books, Dr. Andrew Weil, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Omnivore's Dilemma, New Books, Vegetarianism, Michael Pollan, Books News, Farms, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Dr. Andrew Weil

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.

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UK Climate Chief Lord Stern: Give Up Meat To Save The Planet

Times Online | Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

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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 ...

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan

Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: Veganism, Natalie Portman, Farming, Everything Is Illuminated, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Factory Farming, Books, Agriculture, Vegan, Factory Farms, Omnivore's Dilemma, New Books, Vegetarianism, Michael Pollan, Farms, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Natalie Portman Vegan, Natalie Portman Vegetarian, Portman, Jonathan Foer, Thanksgiving, Books News
Natalie Portman

Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.

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Big Pork at the Government Trough -- Again

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: National Debt, House Agriculture Committee, Bailout, National Pork Producers Council, Swine Flu, Ohio, Factory Farms, Usda, Pork, H1n1, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

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.

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Controversial New Book, Eating Animals

Aaron Gross | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Farming, Everything Is Illuminated, Animal Cruelty, Factory Farming, Animal Rights, Books, Agriculture, Swine Flu, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, New Books, New Nonfiction, Food Politics, Eating Animals, Food, H1n1, Jonathan Safran Foer, Site:www.huffingtonpost.com Natalie Portman Jonathan Safran Foers Eat 334 407, Jonathan Safran Foer Eating Animals, Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer, Natalie Portman: Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Read More At: Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Aaron-Gross/Jonathan-Safran-Foers-con_b_333698.Html, Safran Foer, Thanksgiving, Books News
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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The Conscious Cook: Hit the Spot with Healthy and Humane Foods

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Factory Farms, Humane Society of the United States, Vegetarian, Tal Ronnen, Cooking, Vegan, Cookbooks, Books News
Wayne Pacelle

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.

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Reflections on The National Parks Series and Reform

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 11.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Animal Cruelty, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Ken Burns, Pbs, National Parks, Factory Farms, Humane Society of the United States, Animals, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

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.

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