Eating A Deep Fried Fish That's Still Alive (VIDEO)
Eating "rare" delicacies just got to a new level. In China, chefs have figured out a way to keep a fish alive as it gets deep fried and then waits to...
Eating "rare" delicacies just got to a new level. In China, chefs have figured out a way to keep a fish alive as it gets deep fried and then waits to...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
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?"
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.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
Eating Animals, the searing indictment of factory farming by Jonathan Safran Foer, has got the champions of cheap chuck denouncing the celebrated novelist's latest work as just another piece of fiction.
Ingrid Newkirk | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
Considering that the meat industry produces 40 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world's transportation systems, we see no reason to back down in our criticism of Al Gore, among others.
Kyle Cassidy | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
Michael Pollan stated that "A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef-eater in a Prius" at the Pop-Tech conference last Saturday. The only problem is, the statement isn't true.
nytimes.com | ALEX WILLIAMS | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
For some diners, belonging to a farm co-op or buying groceries from a greenmarket is no longer enough. Taking concepts like nose-to-tail eating a step...
Slate Magazine | Nina Shen Rastogi | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
it is true that switching from meat to tofu should help you cut back on your greenhouse gas emissions. How significant are those savings, exactly?...
Kerry Trueman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Larry King and cheap processed meat. They've got a lot in common: both smush together scraps of debatable value and dubious origin and extrude them as suitable fodder for our more credulous compatriots.
The Atlantic Food Channel | By Bill Niman and Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green
Nicolette [Niman] led a discussion focused on meat. Because there seems to be a growing perception that meat is inherently bad for the environment, sh...
Mikko Alanne | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
If people know about the massive global damage caused by meat production, why is making a change so difficult? Is it because people don't care? Is it because it's too difficult to give up meat? I'd argue it's neither.
Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment
Actor and hemp advocate Woody Harrelson has been a vegan for almost 25 years, but it was vanity that got him started down the path, not animal rights....
Naazish YarKhan | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
According to reports, "Supermarkets have been expanding their shelf space for halal products, recognizing that sales do go up in the month of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting for Muslims."
Naazish YarKhan | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago
Growing up enjoying culinary feasts like lasagna, Sicilian pizza and Puerto Rican rice and beans, Yvonne M. Maffei embraced Islam and its dietary laws. What becomes of those appetites and indulgences?
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
Our world is made of different vibrations of pure energy and nothing else. How can it be better to eat one type of vibrating energy than to eat another type of vibrating energy?
Sadie Nardini | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living
Many top teachers actually think that unless you live according to a vegetarian and therefore, more "cruelty-free" existence, the gates of yogi heaven here on earth remain firmly closed to you.
nytimes.com | KIM SEVERSON | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green
Now there is a new kind of star on the food scene: young butchers. With their swinging scabbards, muscled forearms and constant proximity to flesh, bu...
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 08.01.2009 | Style
If you're planning a cookout for this most patriotic of days, here's an opportunity to celebrate the American dream. Because hot dog culture is American history.
Laura Rogers | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
The way we are raising our food animals -- by regularly feeding them human antibiotics -- is putting human health at risk.
Rachel Cernansky | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
According to a Greenpeace report, Brazil's cattle sector "is the largest driver of deforestation in the world, responsible for one in every eight hectares destroyed globally."
Yahoo! News | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green
AFP: Beatles legend and famous vegetarian Paul McCartney was joined by John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono Monday to launch an appeal for "meat-free Mondays....
Kathy Freston | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living
Going through the comments of some of my recent posts, I noticed the frequently stated notion that eating meat was an essential step in human evolutio...
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living
Food, Inc. is a film whose time has come. With the economic meltdown and the change at the White House, people are demanding more transparency and accountability from those in charge.
Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living
I wish I could live completely off the land, consuming food from my own garden perhaps! However, it's just not in the cards.
Dave Astor | Posted 07.05.2009 | Comedy
"Four score and seven meals ago my conscience brought forth to the anti-rebel north a new diet conceived in kindness and dedicated to the proposition that all animals are created equal.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green