Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. December 2, 2009. More than half of Americans have cut back on meat. Martha Stewart broadcasts a meatless Thanksgiving show. What gives?
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. November 30, 2009. Martha Stewart promotes a vegetarian Thanksgiving? Recently, much attention has been lavished on the horrors of factory farming and the advantages of a meatless diet.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
