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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "meat"

Lab-Grown Meat: The Answer to Animal Cruelty and Environmental Ruin From Feedlots?

Lab-Grown Meat: The Answer to Animal Cruelty and Environmental Ruin From Feedlots?

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. November 13, 2009.
If and when lab-grown meat begins filling the processed-food troughs of the masses, will the Oscar Mayer wiener-eaters of the world even notice?

Quitting Meat Is a Process -- Almost Impossible to Do All at Once

Quitting Meat Is a Process -- Almost Impossible to Do All at Once

Jonathan Safran Foer, AlterNet. November 11, 2009.
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.

7 Diseases That Big, Juicy Steaks Could Give You

7 Diseases That Big, Juicy Steaks Could Give You

Sara Novak, Planet Green. November 5, 2009.
We know meat isn't necessarily the most healthy dietary choice; it could also be a fatal one.

Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals' Book Will Fundamentally Change the Way You Think About Food

Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals' Book Will Fundamentally Change the Way You Think About Food

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. November 4, 2009.
"He is the Michael Pollan of a younger generation: grittier and more daring, more insightful and decisive."

There Is a Way to Help Avoid Heart Disease and Diabetes: You Are What You Eat!

There Is a Way to Help Avoid Heart Disease and Diabetes: You Are What You Eat!

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. October 31, 2009.
A plant-based diet is both preventative and healing, whereas a diet high in animal protein is destructive to our health.

Glenn Beck's Bizarre Outburst Against Meatless Mondays and Vegetarians

Glenn Beck's Bizarre Outburst Against Meatless Mondays and Vegetarians

Kerry Trueman, AlterNet. October 28, 2009.
Cheap gas and cheap chuck remain American birthrights to loopy libertarians like Beck.

In a Vegetarian World, What Happens to the Cows?

In a Vegetarian World, What Happens to the Cows?

Rachel Cernansky, Planet Green. October 21, 2009.
A ridiculous question, you might say, yet it's one I get asked all the time. As if we're doing cows a favor by eating them.

Warning: Eating Meat May Cause Sickness, Paralysis and Death

Warning: Eating Meat May Cause Sickness, Paralysis and Death

Tom Laskawy, Grist.org. October 12, 2009.
This year almost half a million pounds of E. coli infected beef have been recalled and sadly the government is far more concerned with protecting companies than public health.

Two Pounds of Beef Produce the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a Three-Hour Drive

Two Pounds of Beef Produce the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a Three-Hour Drive

Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 8, 2009.
While leaving all the lights at home burning bright during the trip.

Fast Food Monstrosities: Why Would Someone Eat a 1400 Calorie Sandwich?

Fast Food Monstrosities: Why Would Someone Eat a 1400 Calorie Sandwich?

Scott Gold, The Faster Times. September 28, 2009.
Big fast food chains are competing to build bigger, badder and more insanely calorific food. And we eat it. What the hell is wrong with us?

The Trials of Being a Conscious Meat Eater

The Trials of Being a Conscious Meat Eater

Sandor Ellix Katz, Chelsea Green Publishing. September 16, 2009.
"Everything I see, hear, or read about standard commercial factory farming and slaughtering fills me with disgust," writes Katz, who explores why people choose vegetarianism.

7 Delicious Meat Alternatives (and Not a Lick of Tofu in Sight)

7 Delicious Meat Alternatives (and Not a Lick of Tofu in Sight)

Sarah Irani, EcoSalon. August 21, 2009.
Cutting back on meat consumption is one of the most significant ways to help the planet. And it doesn’t require subsistence on tofu.

Eating Meat Isn't Bad for the Planet, It's Our System of Raising the Animals That's Wrong

Eating Meat Isn't Bad for the Planet, It's Our System of Raising the Animals That's Wrong

Eliot Coleman, Grist.org. August 13, 2009.
Sadly too many have been fooled -- the culprit is not meat eating but rather the excesses of corporate/industrial agriculture.

From Farm to Pharma: How Animals Ended Up Living in Confined Feedlots Guzzling Antibiotics

From Farm to Pharma: How Animals Ended Up Living in Confined Feedlots Guzzling Antibiotics

Will Allen, Chelsea Green Publishing. July 6, 2009.
Here's the history behind the transition from farm to feedlot and why Big Pharma rules the barn.

Meatless Mondays: Do Something Good for the Earth and Your Health

Meatless Mondays: Do Something Good for the Earth and Your Health

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. July 6, 2009.
A new campaign is focused on convincing the world not to eat chickens, pigs, and other animals -- just one day per week.

Eating Meat Is Not Natural

Eating Meat Is Not Natural

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. June 15, 2009.
Eating meat is a relatively recent phenomenon in human evolution. And our bodies have never adapted to it.

Our Appetite for Animals Is Taking Us Toward Apocalypse

Our Appetite for Animals Is Taking Us Toward Apocalypse

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. May 16, 2009.
Cutting your meat-eating habits is one of the most impactful ways you can prevent drastic changes to our climate.

Red Meat or Chicken? Why It's Wise to Stay Away from Both

Red Meat or Chicken? Why It's Wise to Stay Away from Both

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. April 16, 2009.
Cutting out red meat while still eating chicken doesn't address the fact that the industrial model for raising both is very bad for the environment.

The Startling Effects of Going Vegetarian for Just One Day

The Startling Effects of Going Vegetarian for Just One Day

Kathy Freston, AlterNet. April 2, 2009.
Sometimes, solutions to the world's biggest problems are right in front of us. The following statistics are eye-opening, to say the least.

Is It Possible to Be a Conscientious Meat Eater?

Is It Possible to Be a Conscientious Meat Eater?

Sunaura Taylor, Alexander Taylor, AlterNet. February 18, 2009.
The "new meat movement" is against industrial meat production, but not against eating meat. Their thinking is problematic.

Health Experts Make a Perverse Push for Fat-Rich, Red Meat Diets

Health Experts Make a Perverse Push for Fat-Rich, Red Meat Diets

Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. December 9, 2008.
Most dietitians say people already have too much protein in their diets. So why is increased meat consumption being promoted in medical journals?

Eating Meat Is Worse Than Driving a Truck ... for the Climate

Eating Meat Is Worse Than Driving a Truck ... for the Climate

Frances Cerra Whittelsey, The Nation. August 6, 2008.
Reducing our meat consumption may not be popular, but we need to view our love affair with burgers in the same frame as gas-guzzling SUVs.

Is a Big Hunk of Steak Worth Almost 2,000 Gallons of Water?

Is a Big Hunk of Steak Worth Almost 2,000 Gallons of Water?

Collin Dunn, Huffington Post. July 1, 2008.
Sometimes the kick we need to green our lives is a hard look at the numbers.

Face It, We All Aren't Going to Become Vegetarians

Face It, We All Aren't Going to Become Vegetarians

George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. April 18, 2008.
It's better for the planet to avoid eating meat, but the reality is we have to make it more sustainable for people who don't want to be vegetarians.

Who Needs Meat When You've Got Bugs?

Who Needs Meat When You've Got Bugs?

Kerry Trueman, Huffington Post. February 14, 2008.
We may find the idea of insects as livestock disgusting, but could a bug farm possibly be any more foul than our fetid feedlots?